I picked up a 54 Dodge truck hemi engine at an estate. With it was a box with two cylinder hemi pieces that I can't find any info on. Includes most pieces I think, including a shortened blower housing. Can anyone tell what I have with that little bit of info?
A guy in Wichita, Kansas used to cut a Hemi block across two cylinders to make Harley motors. I saw one but that's about all I know about them. It looked cool.
Whoa... now that is neat. With the distributor poking out the front at an angle, and with the shape of that valve cover, looks like it was built from a 426 block. Probably a fun thing to do with "what's left of one" after some drag racer holed the block. That is incredibly cool!
The pics are fine don't sweat it. It looks like @Kan Kustom described, maybe he'll chime in as he as seen one up close and personal.
Somebody spent a lot of time on that, would be neat to know more of it's history. I like that shortened blower housing.
50+ cubes per cylinder, 3 HUGE main bearings, a nice cam, maybe a 250 cfm (?) 2-barrell. that would be a bad motor scooter. I think I would put it in a trike
I would put on two wheels with a 90 degree in and out box and lay on it for 1320 feet. May even try and run it on POP just for the shock value.
The one I saw was in a bike at Eldorado, Kansas. Mike Nail from there owned it. He has moved and I have lost track of his whereabouts. I was told that he and his wife moved to Florida. bscottstdio here on the HAMB may know more.
For several years there was a two cylinder Hemi running at the lakes. Same as yours. As I remember it was the last two cylinders of a KB top fuel block with the front welded on to it. Blown on fuel in a motorcycle streamliner at first. Then it became a 4 wheeled lakester and later it had two rear axles and became a six wheeled car. I forget what it was called. Franken something, maybe.Why don't you post it on the LandRacing site. I bet somebody can tell you something about it.
RichFox, you may be on to something. What I could get out of his estranged family was he dealt with open wheel cars and was a local guru on alkie and nitro. Said he flipped at Bonneville, brought the car back and cut it up. Thanks everyone for the input!
You have to put this together and get it running. Just to find out if, at idle, it makes a sound like puh-TAY-toe, puh-TAY-toe, puh-TAY-toe...
Chet Wilson in Wichita built V4's from Chevy blocks. Don't know if it was his work or not but he did cut blowers down like that and had one on a V4 in a T-bucket. http://chet-wilson.com/
The thing sounded funny at idle. But sounded good at speed. It was fast. But crashed as a bike. Then crashed again as a four wheel car. I didn't know it crashed as a six wheeled car. It was called the KB2 when it was a bike.
The Real Ultimate V-Twin No dought the Hemi Twin is cool. I was reading a story once about that bike in Kenneth S post. The parts for that engine came from Austin Coil's scrap pile. Now here is a story that was in Cycle World in the early 80's. I havent found my copy of it yet but this is the only issue of Cycle World I ever saved. This guy is Lucky Keizer, an Austrailian bush mechanic that sorced the engine out of his stash of Merlin V12's. This is what I remember from the artical. Built the bike using a Hilman 3spd, 305ci. and roughly 500hp Doing a search I found that Roland Sands bought the engine. These are the best pics I could come up with.
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