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theres nothing quite like an OLD engine and the sounds they put out..mind you this car has NOT ran in atleast 10+ years and ive owned it th past 18 years and ive only put 50 miles on the car and never registered it...tuesday she will get registered and see the open road for the first time......the story i got when i bought the car was that she had been sitting since the late 70s early 80s due to the engine being "off" (massive blow by and missing chunk of straight six piston..a 3 inch area 1/4 inch deep into the side of the pistion corroded away)...how true who knows but she sat from 92-early 2k when she got her current 312 and 3spd od and was driven roughly 50 miles before the brakes had scared me so bad i parked her..and never even started her from when she was parked till now.....as fishy says..christines blue oval sister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzOnypX0bbU
 
yeah really..really old ones but full exhaust cobbled together from atleast 6 different cars that got cut up long long ago..i made that exhaust when i swapped in the motor lol
 
Me likey!! Looks to be in pretty nice shape. Is it a 3spd OD manual or and auto with OD? I have a bunch of old exhaust pipe I'll be using to put dual exhaust on the desoto. Most was a dual system form a 85 ram I parted out, the other bits and pieces left over from other cars over the years.
 
its a manual 3 on the tree with some funky electric bits..they made these tranys from around 54 thru 63ish but there quite rare..theres a cable to put it into od and out of od..its a lever on the side of the case HOWEVER it doesnt change the gears themselves..it lets it freewheel like the clutch is in every time you let off the gas..mash it to the floor and it WILL kick down from 3rd into second or 2nd into 1st....aslo with od on..you cant push start the car as it free wheels..with od off its like a traditional 3sdp on the tree...theres a soliniod on the fire wall co0nnected to the coil and something on the trans and a push button under the gas pedal..its the weirdest thing

cow so long as you have a nice assortment of bends and 2 pipes for over the rear axle you can make the exhaust realy easily its just a puzzle at that point
 
69.5CUDA said:
cow so long as you have a nice assortment of bends and 2 pipes for over the rear axle you can make the exhaust realy easily its just a puzzle at that point
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Quick story-back when I worked in the parts store I got 2 calls for tailpipes in a row, one for a 78 Aspen 318 the other a 76 Malibeaut w/ a 305. Pulled the pipes, tossed them in the aisle and routed a driver out with them. Later the customer with the chivvy called and said he got the wrong pipe, he read me the number and he got the Asprin one. By this time it was 5:30 so I tossed another 46477 in a truck, dropped it to him then backtracked with the Dodge one to my buddy down the street to swap it. Pulled in and he had already cut and tweaked the chevy pipe and had it in the Dodge.
 
74DartSport said:
Quick story-back when I worked in the parts store I got 2 calls for tailpipes in a row, one for a 78 Aspen 318 the other a 76 Malibeaut w/ a 305. Pulled the pipes, tossed them in the aisle and routed a driver out with them. Later the customer with the chivvy called and said he got the wrong pipe, he read me the number and he got the Asprin one. By this time it was 5:30 so I tossed another 46477 in a truck, dropped it to him then backtracked with the Dodge one to my buddy down the street to swap it. Pulled in and he had already cut and tweaked the chevy pipe and had it in the Dodge.
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So what does that tell you...The true difference between a mopar man and a bow tie boy.... :D
 
Nothing sounds like a Y block.:) I miss that sound. My first car was a 57 Ford. That vid brings back some good memories.
 
If I recall correctly, the Y-blocks had a very distinct, ( and weird) firing order. Rather than alternating firing from side-to-side there were 2 cylinders on each side that would fire consecutively. Causing a very distinct rumble and rap to the exhaust. It was even noticable with a full single exhaust. It didn't do much for the performance though. :doh:

I don't recall ever hearing any noise from a nailhead. I didn't think any cumbustion reverberation ever made it past those nickle sized valves. :bwuhaha:

The most memorable sound of the early Hemi's on the street was the rattle of the lifters. IF someone even realized that they came with solid lifers they either didn't want to spend the $$ or the work to pull the intake to adjust them. :(
 
15486372....and why do you think ive got full exhaust on it lol....course the tones changed since i got it running right and dropped the idle to 550 ..once i change the TO and clutch ill shoot some street vid cause that thing sounds wicked when you get on it

getting the 354 heim onto the road is no pipe dream but its a long way out right now..i cant wait to hear that one runnin
 
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And because Ford numbers there cylinders 1,2,3,4 on one side and 5,6,7,8 on the other, that means that the 4th one back fires and then the 2nd back on the same side. Then the 2nd back on the other side followed by the 1st on the same side. :doh:
 
Ford's 221, 260, 289 and early 302s had a crazy one-after-the-other firing order on the first two cylinders and 7&8 fire one right after the other on the same bank, which is why nothing else sounds like one of those engines.
 
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