Got me a Hemi....

thrashingcows

thrashingcows

Drowning deep in my sea of loathing...so I'm
Well I just picked up a 1952 331 Hemi that will be mated to a A833 OD tranny for my rod...when I get one.

So if I can go into a bit of a yarn on what happened to get my Hemi home...
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I have been looking for a Hemi online for a while and finally found one for the right price around 100 miles away. I was to take my truck down to get said motor but a couple days before departure it drops a couple lifters..
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So I call on a couple buddies and see if I can get a truck...no go. So now I'm left with only one option...take my 68 Chrysler Town And Country wagon down to pick up this motor!!!

I spent a couple days trying to figure out how I was going to load everything into my wagon..finally found a solution...won't go into it here...and set off saturday morning to get the motor.

Luckly the motor was apart so loading it was not bad. Wagon made it down and back with no problems...even after being in winter storage for several months!!:)

So now I will share the pictures....



All loaded up and at home.



Looking into the belly of the beast.



Comfortably sitting in it tire.
 
So here is what I got.

A 1952 331 Hemi extended bellhousing motor. Originaly pulled from a chrysler passenger car as a spare motor for a farmers dump truck. Motor was torn down and the heads were rebuilt about 25 years ago, and that is how it sat until the guy I got the motor from pulled it out of the guys barn, with the heads still in the plastic bags from the machine shop!!




Here it is fresh out of the back of the wagon. Cylinder walls look great with no major rust or scouring. Spins freely.





Here are the rebuilt heads. They have new seats on intake and exhaust, new intake valves, guides, dual springs, and seals. The exhaust valves look like the were just cleaned and re-used, except for one that was replaced.



Could help myself...
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Came with a 6 volt starter and bottom section of the bellhousing.



Two 6 volt genrators and a matched set of round port manifolds and a single square port manifold.



Also came with a spare cam in great condition. And I forgot to grab a pic but also came with an original chrysler dual point dizzy!!

So now I have to find shop space to rent so I can seriously start looking for a project car.

Cheers.
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Put that dual-point on ebay for one of the restorers and get an adapter Intermediate shaft from Hot Heads Hemi's. With the different Intermediate shaft, the sb electronic dist. drops right in. :)
 
I’m not trying to piss in your cornflakes, but how are you going to hook a trans to that? It’s my understanding that the extended bell hemis cant be mated to a modern trany.

Perhaps I’m wrong. I just didn’t want to see you dump a pile of coin into an engine that you wont be able to use.
 
I was under a similar impression as Stretch... I thought the long-bell motors were marine/industrial only (pumps, generators, and boats). I don't ever recall seeing one in a road vehicle of any sort--even large trucks--nor have I seen one mated to a normal transmission. :huh:

I hope we're both wrong... just a heads-up.
 
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Tsk, tsk, you younguns should know better to make assumptions before consulting someone from that era. Those enginges were used in cars, and they can be put back in cars.

Back in the 50's the popular trans hookup was to a late 30's furd truck trans. Those adapters are no longer made, but there's a lot of used out there.
New adapters can be had to bolt either a Muncie 4 gear or a 727 auto to the extended-block 331's.

This beast belongs to a good friend of mine. it's running an extended-block 331. I did the electronic conversion for him and got the whole thing tuned with those miserable 4 strombergs. :doh:
 

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Good... I'm glad I'm wrong.

Question: If it can be hooked to a Chrysler pussymatic trans, why not the A833?
 
Probably because the muncies are cheaper & easier to find. :huh:

Hot Heads Hemi has just about anything you will need for a 331. For the trans adapt, most peeps recommend http://www.wilcap.com/.

A small warning Cow, if you think parts are expen$ive for your 440, look out. [smilie=f:
 
Oops, my bad, adapters are also available to fit a furd top-loader 5 gear to the 331's. :vroom:
 
DD2...Yup Scootermcrad over on the HAMB has a great early Hemi tech thread.

Wilcap, and others have all the adapters you could possibly need, you can basicly run any tranny behind one of these extended bell motors.

The reason I chose the extended bell is because they are cheaper due to most peoples ignorance and the extended bells scare them. Also since I'll be running the A833OD all I need is a flat adapter to bolt onto the back of the bellhousing and it's done.

I will most likely need to run a Hyd clutch system since the extended bells are not the best candidates for a manual clutch linkage system.

I had to pass on an all original 1930 Chrysler 4dr a month or so ago for $2200 because I had no were to store it...:(
 
68R/T said:
A small warning Cow, if you think parts are expen$ive for your 440, look out. [smilie=f:[/quote]

Yup I knew that going in...not a cheap choice but since I want a more traditional style rod I didn't want a SBC/F/D or even a later wedge type motor. It would have either been a Hemi, Flatty or an old nailhead to keep the traditional flavor...so being a mopar man I really only had one choice...:cool:
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Did you just call me Ignorant?

Never been called that one before.:bwuhaha:
 
restoman said:
68, I frickin' LOVE that hotrod!
Awesome!
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He originally got it back in '57 or '58. By '59 -'60 he had the Hemi in it and was showing it professionally. During '61 it had been featured on the covers of most of the hot rodding mags. In '62 he garnered the national championship trophy. Still got the trophy, it stands about 7 feet tall. :eek:

After getting the '62 championship he put it in storage while he built up his upholstery business. Then, about 5 years ago, after going semi-retarred, he got it out to restore. It originally had a Columbia 2-speed rear, but during the redo he swapped in a furd 8 inch with 3:00 gears. Everything else is exactly the way it looked in '62. Now he just takes it for the occasional cruise.
 
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