On 4/26/2013 1:35 PM, Gary Pavlovich wrote:
That is a good assessment Adam; all the mfgrs. engines run well but a
Chevy is truly boring; they don’t even “look” impressive, kind of
like a pimple in a vacuous engine bay. I guess I like the
“massive-look” of Mopars powerplants – they go with the rest of the
Chrysler engineering and are built much better in my opinion. Among
all the Poly engines I have there is a nice set of freshly machined
340 X Heads if any of you are in need – I decided I don’t need to
hang on to them any longer.
Gary Pavlovich
Some years ago I went to the Hot Rod Nationals, along with the racing
they have a decent swap meet and car show at the venue where I am.
Whilst walking the long way to the swaps area I spied a nice looking
small hot rod coupe, and since it had an open hood area I was able to
spy the 'hemi' sitting in it from a distance.
ALrighty I go, lets check this one out a little.
MAJOR BUMMER when I got close enough to it to stick my head around it.
It Had Black Plastic Valve covers in the early Hemi configuration, But
it had Skirts on the flange. The Skirts covered the spark plugs and
wires going to them, Yups Someone went to some trouble to make FAKE Hemi
covers to disguise the chebby small block to look like a mopar!
Basically the plastic covers allowed the spark plug wires to pass
through them like the hemi. The Skirts were also cut to just fit between
the exhaust system at the manifold as they provided the camouflage of
the true spark plug locations.
At least it was semi-retro, it did have chevy double hump heads.
--
Paul Holmgren
Mine: 2 57 300-C's in Indy
Hers: 05 PT GT R/T HO Stage 1
Hoosier Corps L#6
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