hemi

[skierkaj]

and I know for a fact there's a 331 under the hood of this little cutie . . . '54 Desoto Firedome. 1 of about 8 original 2 door Hemi cars still surviving. Original motor is gone . . . has a '56 331 Hemi.

[moparts]

I went to Rankin Tech in St Louis Mo and we had 2 of those engines running 750 K Gen. Sets. Those 2 hemi's had to be tuned to perfection to get enough out of the generators to start the 1000 hp locomotive engine at the school. The class before mine forgot to turn on the oil pump to the engine and it oversped and siezed a rod brg. It was a big inline 6 Detroit and 1200 rpm was overspeed for it. The building it was in covered a city block square and we all thought there was a earthquake when that big boy went. My class got to tear it down and I now have a rod and piston assembly out of it for my mail box stand.

Anyway back to the hemi's Buizilla is right it just about took a new set of points everytime you wanted the things to run right. I don't remember what the hp was but it wasn't very good. The one's on the gen sets always had a vibration to them that just never seemed right, don't know if it was the engine or the gen. they was turning.

[jeff morocco]

is it worth putting into a street rod of some sort or just clean it up and have it to look at ?

[Belair62]

Make another hole in that bar Jeff !!!

[WILMASBOYL78]

I've seen these motors years ago in the orange groves in Florida...they used them for powering big water pump systems. I think some folks even used some later model engines. American ingenuity...

wilma

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my mailbox

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