toyota hemi

And getting smaller by day.

What's to defend? I have good taste in picking my friends. ;-D

 

Hey the land of the rising sun builds bikes that look like Harley's. Should we start calling them V-twins or stay with metric cruisers. lol. Who cares! They copy all our cool stuff .

 

Maybe I could pick one of them up & build a cool Hot Rod to drive to the Toyota Nationals!.....You know, no fenders, 3 pedals, lotsa' louvers....etc;

 

i like

 

With that line of thinking, we'd be discussing nearly all new motors.

 

No, they improve all our cool stuff. Reliability is not just a catch phrase...


Mutt

 

I was reading about it last night in Tex's Hemi Book, apparently they didn't make many of them, and the ones they did make stayed in Japan or went to Australia... so it's a pretty rare and probably very expensive "hemi".... so I guess I'll just have to stick with my red ram and be happy ...

And to think I could have had an even smaller hemi

 

YEAH at least you can change the plugs in a Pontiac without burning the ^%$(* outta yourself !

 

The way I see it, I must have joined the wrong forum. I thought this place was about American Iron but I guessed wrong. I own two Harley's and two Trump's I would ride cross country in a heartbeat. Reliability is only a question of your mechanical skills. I chimed in on this thread because I building a blown 331 right now, and have had several hemis in the past. Look it it like this, some guys look good in a dress, put 'em in some makeup and heels, and take 'em to a bar. Sure he might look like a chick, but he's not. I'd rather have the real deal. LOL! That's my opinion on scoots and cars.

 

Triumph is not american and if you never told anybody, 99.9% of the world would think its a Charger engine anyway. It fits the theme of the car. That thing got a HEMI!? Awhyuck Awhyuck

 

I'm not knocking anyone, just my opinion. But while were on it Trumps Beezer's, Indian's and Harley's are the only real bikes out there. I wouldn't put my ass on anything less, but this is about hemi's and not scoots.

 

RE whomever said they would like to find one... The last couple of times this topic came up I threw in my experience of living in Japan. From that period of time their economy was booming. The limos, ambulances and some trucks that these came in would all be either sold off (their island), Ausie-land, Malaysia, etc. or long since recycled into Kirin cans at least twice.. In general they have no bone-yard mentality. In fact during my last visit I was told that the few yards I knew back then were gone as the govment closed them down for eco reasons (tactic sound familiar????). This gets people to buy new cars (economy) and keeps tax revenue going (govment)... Saw one on ebay a year or so ago for 1000.--, some do exist, hard to find..

 

I like it. But I am not a hardore traditionalist like you all. I love when someone runs an uncommon motor. Makes for an intresting car IMO. Anyone got more pics or specs? Love to see more!
aloha,
rustfarmer

 

With that analogy, it's possible...

Have you checked the Leslie thread?


Mutt

 

Welcome new guy. Jockeyjournal.com. look into it. We talk cars here. I like bikes too, but Harley's are slow. BSA and Indian are long gone. Triumph and norton lost there ability to look forward. cruisers are boring. now can we get back to baggin on rice burning dodges?

 

LMAO

 

Well I am a guy that Dares to be Different as it is with my choice of power train so I have to say I LIKE IT! Its a kool and innovative idea to try something new and different from the masses. As someone on here earlier in this thread said, doing something different makes it interesting.

All you guys that get off on yapping about how traditional something is or isnt should really take a look at the scene in the whole picture. You look thru the old books by Don Montgomery, or even the old car mags and you will see guys trying new and innovative stuff back in the day like runnin Mercedes engines in roadsters on the dry lakes and such, so where does one draw a line and say it isnt traditional. I have always seen hotrodding as being innovative. Sure you can build stuff so that it has a certain look or era, but when you get down to it we are all still just building hotrods to have fun with them arent we. I think this Rod with the Toyota Hemi looks like it would be a blast.

As far as tradition goes, its a "traditionally inspired hotrod". Thats what i call my Sedan i am building. It may not fit in to the "trad look" that everyone out there wants but as i recall, I am not building it to please anyone but me, and i am sure that is the same case with this Track roadster. If one looks at all the super channelled sedans out there as an example, maybe look back and see how many of them you can ever find done that way "back in the day". Not many I can certainly say that. My sedan is that way but i have not been inspired to build it by what was done traditionally, i have been inspired by the first way my dad built his model A roadster and always wanted something similar, it just happens that my ride fits in more than i thought it would now. So really is it more traditional to build a body style that was never really explored in that aspect over building something with a different style engine. Not in my opinion.

Just needed to put my 2 cents in on this. I enjoy the Hamb and WELCOME new ideas!!!

 

I don't know about about Harley's being slow, around my parts most of my boy's bikes will smoke a riceburner. Ever see a stroker Pan beat a Gixxer, very funny. Hey aren't the cars we all build long gone too! As for forward thinking, how about guys like Foose, Alloway, and Coddington. They get knocked because the guys who buy thier cars have money.Is EFI on a vintage hemi cool? Hell Yeah. Do I want it? No, I'm stubborn and would rather tinker with two fours or three dueces.lol. LONG LIVE THE CHRYSLER HEMI! MOPAR MOPAR MOPAR.

 

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Harley
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Pontiacs MUST be ugly due to the torque that explodes from the powerplant, squishing your eyeballs into a rheumy puddle in the back of your skull making it hard to see jack or his excrement...

that is if you set your car up correctly to get traction. >_>

 

The cars, Century and Crown that these engines were installed in were only ever sold in Japan. Century is a hand built limo produced at the rate of around eight cars a week and very expensive. The V8 Crowns were made in greater numbers but only produced during the sixties and seventies.

They are getting harder to find but still not what I'd call expensive. o import one to Australia it'd still be cheaper than a small block Chevy.

Much as I am the man from T, given th choice I'd take your Red Ram and leave you the Tojo. You'd probably end up with a more reliable ride but I'd have more 'cool'.

 

So I don't understand your problem, seems to me you own at least two "Imports" yourself.

 

I agree, flatheads are becoming as boringly common as SBCCs.

 

Are you sure we're not related?

Couldn't have said it better myself.

 

Me too, but I don't shit on the guys who do use it.

 

Too many cams and valves in those things. However, as tradition and time are usually linked, the Toyota hemi does date back to the same period that Chrysler Corp were doing their Hemis and the original Tojos were also styled after Chrysler products.

 

If the Toyota Hemi is pre 64 in origin there can really be no argument. Looks cool too...
If you get one from the 70's or whenever just do it 60's style and enjoy.
works for the "traditional" 350 Chevys and they weren't made pre 64...just the design predates it!

 

Damn, I really hate to beat the dead horse and bring this back up...but with gas prices on the rise, and between me and my gal spending about $120.00 a week driving the old American iron daily, I broke down and bought my gal a POS 88 Toyota DungWagon. Damn does it runs great and it cut the weekly fuel cost down around 35%. After 3 weeks I noticed I saved a few extra bucks and they went to buy Hot-Rod parts=good. Last week I bought an 81 Toyota TE72 with the 3TC hemi. Now I am saving around 50-60% more money for more hot rod parts. When I first got the 81 it got around 29 mpg. I took of all the emisions and smog pump and A/C and it actually burns rubber now and is getting 33 mpg. This is the first import or forien car I have owned, and really for doin the daily work week grind, I could'nt be happier. It is putting less ware and tear on my neat American classics that I was driving daily for years, to giving them a little break and putting more money in my pocket for more essentual vintage car parts. Would I put one in a rod? No way. Keep one where it belongs? Hell yes. Here's a few pics of 1st a Toyota head, then a Chrysler HEMI, and a neat little add from the 70's.

 

I have seen this engine before.........in a old issues of street rodder i think.......had a small write up in it that said what they came out of and what years to get them........if it is speed.......i am all for it.....