Usually the schit talkers back off when you bring money into the situation...once they realize you're willing to bet a few weeks pay on a race they get the idea pretty fast.

Those Hemi commercials are misleading, I think those trucks look and sound great....but fast? c'mon

 

Chrysler invented the hemi. ALmost evey dragster you see uses a 700+c.i. hemi. They are the best drag racing motors period.

 

the ones that dont took the design from mopar dumb ***

 

ban him - he's being an abusive 27 year old... or is it 32 year old?

 

arent they used because of rules? Same thing like top fuel cars, they use root style blowers, but we all know well enough that roots aren't the best. Theres a word out there for this kind of effed up logic.

Hemi's are cool and all, but i believe we're mostly refferring to the brand name hemi and its owners, not the actual hemi design. By now it should be plainly common knowledge that the hemi design is faulted by nature. You can only put 2 valves in a hemi head and that makes it handicapped to a degree. As more auto manufacturers head over to 3v and 4v designs and DOHC engines, im sure the hemi will be a thing of the past in road vehicles, especially with the growing popularity of forced induction engines.

 

How about the Ford Hemi used on the BOSS 429 Mustang, I know Chrysler has the pattend on the name "Hemi", but they aren't the only manufacturer to use it. Hell look at any 4 valve import cylinder head, what's it look like, 4 valves surrounding a spark plug in the center of the combustion area of the head, oh **** I think that's a hemi too.

Gimmie a break dodge boy's, don't get me wrong, I like the hemispherical combustion chamber, but if that's the only thing you have to hang your hat on, please keep movin.

BTW, I like your guys' website.

Dustin.

 

Yeah, so NHRA, NASCAR, and Dodge are all using engines developed in the '60s. I'm not so sure I would brag about that.

Also, if you use the ram/horse, lambpower/horsepower conversion factor (recently calculated at 380/500) you only end up with 262 hp for the hemi. That snot so hot.

 

I bet you learned everything you know by watching TV.

 

yes top fuel dragsters use hemi's because they can get more power out of them than any other engine design. ford and others have copied this engine design from chrysler, who invented it. and yes your right, it is an old design, but still the best for drag racing. so my point is how can you talk **** about one of, if not the best drag racing engines ever made.

 

Now I know you learned everything by watching TV.

Check this out:
http://www.moparstyle.net/history/earlyhemimotor.htm




The first hemi engines built were by Chelsea Mfg. Co. in Chelsea, Michigan in 1903. The Chelsea Welch had a two cylinder engine with overhead valves and hemispherical combustion chambers and put out 20hp. Chelsea continued to build Hemis until 1909 when the company was acquired by General Motors.

A Peugeot Grand Prix car running a hemi in 1912 gave Europe "Hemi Fever". The Peugeot was powered by a 3 liter engine with an overhead camshaft and four valves making it a pent-roof chamber actually. By the 1920’s a hemispherical combustion chamber was the norm in racing engines. Hemi heads feature intake and exhaust valves set at opposing angles in the head creating a hemispherical combustion chamber. This design makes for phenomenal intake and exhaust flow, making it easy to build horsepower.





Now tell us again WHO invented the "Hemi".



<-- This is everyone on the Lightning message board laughing at you.
You poor poor dumb redneck.

 

your an idiot, those werent even close to the same engine design that chrylser came up with and is still used today

 

I don't really see anybody talking **** about the "Hemi" itself, just the ignorant owners of the new trucks. What's just hillarious is all the mid-life crisis guy's goin' out buyin' "The fastest production truck made" being the SRT-10 and just gettin their ***** handed to 'em because they couldn't drive to save their life! I know I've read a few guy's that have actually driven 'em the way their supposed to but I know when I roll up next to one at the stop light, or line up next to one at the track, it's more than likely not the pro behind the wheel.

And once again, the basic hemi design is what the NHRA uses, nothing remotely close to what Mopar conjured up. Hell I could say that its a Ford Hemi in the Mustang shelled funny cars, how'd that be for entertaining.

 

yeah i was gonna say, i think that the actual design that mopar ended up using for their hemi engines was actually sold to them by ford who tried to develop and scrapped the project. Of course chyrstler was the one that perfected it, but not from start to finish. I didn't have a link for it though so i didnt wanna pipe up, doing a google search on hemi just brings up thousands of pages of dodge hemi hype.

Either way it's a moot point, honestly think that hemi is the best drag engine out there? I kinda doubt it, surely it's the most well developed and well known.

 

You need to come up and hang out with the Jersey/NY crew for about a week. We'll get you into wisecrack and smack talk mode so you are never speechless again

 

your talking about a lawnmower engine