HEMI-Powered wrote:
> I stand/sit corrected. Bryan and others are right - there WAS a
> 383 CID 280 BHP engine in both 1967 A-Body cars, the Plymouth
> Barracuda and the Dodge Dart.
I seem to recall the 335hp 383 made 315hp in the A-body, but I can't
remember the source... I could be wrong. My '68 service manual doesn't
show
any horsepower figures.
> I found this in a more obscure reference book, where I should
> have looked first, as I've apparently found yet another glaring
> error in John Gunnell's seminal work, "The Standard Catalog of V-
> 8 Engines".
>
> The book was published in late 1973 by the group then known as
> the Chrysler Archives, and was titled the improbable name "A
> Pictorial History of Chrysler Cor****ation Cars." Yes, there are
> pictures, but they are small, poor quality B & W and only one to
> cover an entire model of car in a given model year. And, it does
> go back all the way to the 1924 Chrysler B-70. What is far more
> valuable than a thumbnail photo and a little text, though, is a
> very, very detailed set of specifications on each and every car,
> including Chrysler's internal body (platform) code and its code
> for both body style and price class, model names, WB and the full
> range of specifications for all engines available.
>
> Unlike Gunnell and other sources I first looked at, this book is
> much more explicit as to what engine(s), body styles, WB(s), etc.
> were available individually rather than lumping them all
> together, which makes it hard to discern what engine went into
> what car(s).
>
> So, Bryan and anyone else I pissed off with my stubbor refusal to
> admit my brain was soft and I mis-remembered, my sincerest
> apologies. You may or may not believe it, but this isn't like me.
> When there's a question that I'm not 100.000% sure on, I check in
> multiple reference and picture books, but this time, my ego got
> ahead of my brain and I goofed.
You didn't piss me off... you'll have to try a LOT harder than that! lol
> What I did NOT find, though, was anything on the Slant Six Hyper-
> Pak engines I talked about, the fact that a 440 Six Pack was
> released for 1972 but never built, nor any mention of the D-Dart.
> For that matter, the approximately 70 Darts and 70 Barracudas
> that Hurst installed drag race engines into in 1968 are not
> mentioned. That's really not a suprise, though, as these examples
> are pretty obscure and not the usual factory builds.
Sadly, I'm aware that there is one less '68 Hemi Barracuda left on this
planet. My machinist friend and former Superstock racer (L.D. "Dennis"
Smythe) related a story to me. A fellow came to his shop, wanting to find
an original Superstock Hemi Barracuda, and have him build a Hemi for it --
the man had buckets of cash. A car was found, a Hemi was screwed
together,
and the man took it out to the dragstrip (Seattle). But, the car wasn't
fast enough for him and the machinist suggested a fiberglass body. The
man
used that original SS car body to make a mold (which involved cutting the
body into sections). I nearly cried when I heard the story. I have not
known Dennis to joke about such matters. Prior to hearing this story, I
chanced upon the man and his 'glass Barracuda at a bracket race. He was
dialed-in well into the 8s (I redlighted against him).
> So, please forgive a tottering old fool.
I'm not far behind you! lol
> --
> HP, aka Jerry
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