Its a 4 turd stroke overrated POS. American muscle would so much more awesome with 2 stroke DFI orbital injection v8 and i-6 options. Car culture seem like a 4 joke stroke only cult, never understood that.
Naming the 426 Hemi the Elephant was actually meant as an insult. When Chrysler developed it and pressured the race drivers to use it, they called it Elephant because "It just doesn't run". Don Garlits hated it because it didn't perform as well as the 392 and got fed up being pressured by Chrysler so he cranked in a whole bunch of timing figuring it would blow up and that would be the end of it, instead he broke 200 mph and the rest is history.
Yeah, the 1960s Hemis sold in tiny numbers and had little effect on most people... plus Chargers were so heavy it needed a tank motor just to move it... problem was the domed pistons needed to match the domed chamber made the pistons so heavy it was hard to keep them on the rods at high RPMs... the 1950s hemis were designed for low RPMs breathing efficiency like WWII aircraft needed and Chrysler bragged of GOOD MPG!
Yeah, I'm in my 50's, my recollection was of hard core Mopar fans that swore by the 440, would make that comment "if you can keep it running" regarding the 426 if they commented about it at all. A 440 with either a six pack or double four barrels were the sought after engines.
I just loved the 426 street Hemi. Working with my dad, and a friend who was an expert wrench-master at a Chrysler dealership, we built a "426 Hemi Q-ship." On the outside (unless you looked hard) it was a boxy, forest green Plymouth Valiant. But inside . . . it had a narrowed rear end, and up front the frame was strengthened in the same way as the 426 Road Runner. It was an absolute killer Friday night street racer. Guys would pull up next to it at a stoplight, and you could almost hear the sneer as they looked across at the Valiant in the other lane. Yup. Right up until the light changed. I was in High School, hot-rod crazy, and I knew I could rely on the "Q Ship." So, drop the hammer and off we'd go, and the only thing the guy with the sneer on his face saw was the tail lights. Man, I loved that car. One day, my dad came home without it. He was driving a Dodge Dart with a 360 - the bastard child of the super-strong small block, the 318. Turned out my mother, who used the Valiant often, wasn't crazy about the feel of raw horsepower, and by that time the fuel price war had been started by OPEC - a battle we're still in today. The Valiant was bought by the master mechanic who'd helped build it, and he took that Hemi and dropped it into a Road Runner, set up for drag racing. And he raced it for years, and it never blew up, rarely gave problems, and won more often than not. If I'd been a few years older with a better paying job, I could have bought one of the classic 426 models for myself - a "Kowalski" Challenger, or a bright orange Road Runner. But those got very expensive very quickly after Chrysler ended production of Hemi-equipped street cars. I still loved tinkering with engines, and after reading some articles, myself and a couple of friends built a "Clevor" - the marriage of the two different 350's made in Windsor, Ontario and Cleveland, OH. That was fun, but it lacked the sheer glamour of the Hemi. I know that engine is still out there, and I hope the current owner loves it as much as I did.
The 1968 here in Detroit on the East Side.My father worked at the Chrysler stamping plant. We went on a monday and ordered a sixty eight road runner with a pistol grip hemi. We picked it up that Friday from the dealership.It was built here in detroit Dodge maine. We took it Later on that night on Woodward Avenue. But before we stopped at the local Shell gas station and He filled it up with race gas. It was Is truly main event that night. And most Friday saturday night SS Chevelle killer. The only luxury it had in it from the dealer was an ashtray , no cigarette lighter , no radio.
My generation. Sitting in Steak and Shake on a Saturday night and watching these beasts roll through the parking lot. You couldn't fill up the fourteen gallon tank without turning the engine off.
LOL! Before Steak and Shake it was White Hut Restaurants we cruised through... but the food was bad so we went to Big Boy and McDonald's to eat/drink...
Its a true cross flow cylinder head design. Not found in most engines of the time. It started out as a race engine then offered to the public. In my opionin the king of the V8's.
@@BruceDragon-sf1tr When you say it like that I really dont want to continue with this argument. I really dont think your mature enough to talk like adults. All these brands have made junk and respectable vehicles and engines. You find a 429-460 in the junk yard and its just sitting there collecting dust and rust. A HEMI engine let alone a HEMI car found in the junk yard would never be found. Why is that? Not saying I dont like the 429-460. I just dont see the argument. Now with the 427 Cammer or the 427 FE , especially the Ford FE 427 TUNNEL PORT I can see the argument.
@sirswerve2493 I'm going to help your mental side with just one question.... how come Dodge always went bankruptcy?? *don't make yourself look like a a× when you answer this
I was a parts manager, the service manager, the Zone manager I remember fouling spark plugs anytime anyone drove on. We had HUNDREDS of Superbirds and Cudas that we had to give away when the gas crisis hit I had been running a Max wedge, tough to beat on the street
Great documentary of a very iconic and desirable American engine. If a HEMI is in a vehicle, the vehicle is desirable. Those built by Ray Barton and Keith Black are the very epitome of the elephant!
When I was 12 twelve years old, two brothers down the street owned a Charger RT Green and a Road Runner Orange . Those cars were so cool !!!! they would see us kids down the street and they would light up the tires for us, how awesome !! Never ever forget those days...We should always thank Dodge for setting the Bar for car performance, even until the last few years w/ Hellcats and Demons, if it wasn't for Dodge we would not have Ford and Chevy putting out their Monstrous HP engines !! Long live Dodge Brothers !!
My dad bought a 68 plymouth roadrunner runner back in the early 70s . His brother had the 440 gtx , and two of his cousins both had roadrunners . I wish I had seen the other three cars as an adult. Sadly, I wasn't able to see those cars .My uncle still owns the gtx, and one day, I may drive the 4 hours to go see it . What happened to my dad's 68 plymouth roadrunner ....... He gave it to me when I was in high school . Drove it had fun with it and today ..... I still have my old Mopar and love it .
0:56 Eating dust? Get your facts right.... The 426 Max Wedge was still a very capable race engine in 1963 and was still a force to be reckoned with. However the Max Wedge cylinder head was pretty much developed to the point of being "Max'd" out. With GM and Ford were starting to taking home some substantial wins which forced Chrysler to turn to R&D to find an answer, and they returned to the HEMI head design.
The max wedge heads were good but the 392 hemis were still dominating the drag strip especially with blowers. It was a perfect match to put the hemi heads on the B/RB deep skirted block. 5 head bolts per cylinder and not having any coolant in the intake made it a perfect setup
Walter Chrysler's great grandson made them an offer to buy Dodge and Chrysler back and they turned him down. The goal is apparently to destroy Chrysler and Un-Americanize it.
I'd love to be part of a Group who wants to buy Chrysler,Dodge ,Ram, and the Rights to the Old Chrysler Corporation and everything that Belongs to it.Little people All getting together to fund the purchase it sickens me to see it Being Dissolved piece by piece until there is Nothing left.
Back in the day, I was a hard-line Ford Bigot!! But the fact is Ford, GM, Chrysler and American Motors produced some really badass V8s!! Even their small V8s were pretty awesome!! Chevy's 283 and Ford's 289 were no small potaterz!!
American V-8 car engines used the same basic design. Ford, GM and Mopar in almost all of their V-8s. But the Hemi was different because the intake valves were angled in a way to get better volumetric efficiency. The intake air, didn’t have to make another 90 degree angle turn to charge the cylinders with air. They did the same thing with the exhaust valves, which helped get rid of the exhaust gases more efficiently. Power is all about how well the engine can breathe to make more power.
The hemi is a great engine but the greatest? Stretching it . There were some fantastic engines from a lot of manufacturers in that period. I love them all.
Ford 427 SOHC Cammer. 620 - 660 HP from the factory. And 160 lb lighter than a 426 Hemi. Ford sold it as a crate engine for $2,300, a zero mile cammer just sold for $140,000 in 2023.
@@thereisnospoon52 and what production car was the cammer in? That’s right it wasn’t. Why don’t you compare the cammer to an arias hemi or a billet 2jz
The 426 HEMI was not run in NASCAR in 1965. The HEMI returned in 1966 when it also entered street duty. The 425HP was at 5200 RPM, it made 500HP at 6000 RPM. This was perhaps the most famous derate in history. As for the 1964 Daytona 500, the HEMI took 7 of the top 10 spots at the finish. The HEMI is known world wide for its performance.
interesting but you left out one very important fact,,PONTIAC dominated Nascar 1960-1963,and the mopar engineers and other people went around to all the mopar racers and asked ,,"what is going to take to beat Pontiac??" and the answer was always the same ,,"bring back the hemi !!!!" ,, and thus was born the 426 Hemi,, courtesy of Pontiac....all you mopar fans remember that when you see a old pontiac on the road, and give them a thumbs up ....
yes it was...not a production engine. Was waiting in the wings to see if Ford started the 427 cammer engine production but of course that never happened so Chrysler kept the Ball stud Hemi holstered...
Knock will happen when the fuel is ignited to much before top dead center or from low octane which burns to fast. Edges in the combustion chamber will get hot enough to ignite fuel causing the Knock. Timing adjustment will usually help unless compression is above something like 9.5 to 1 and up.
My father was an Area Manager for Chrysler, he drove land yachts the company supplied him, fed up he requested HQ send him something that had some 'guts'. soon a green challenger showed up with that 426 under the hood, it was virtually a weapon!, undriveable in the city. Later he discovered they had sent him the race version of a car Chrysler was considering for homologation, he got the bug and the next one was a Charger 440 R/T
Oldsmobile had the W43 455 ci and 425 ci version 4 valve per cylinder pushrod motor ready to go in cars in 1967/8 . I was so close to production and would have been a game changer .
@@AntiZOGZone your a flop ! Go back to the sand box , touch some more kids up and get a real life, I've tracked your ISP and I saw what you looked up , I'm going to make it public , wow ,
But they didn't do it. Ray Barton took this engine after the lifted the ban in SS (due to Superior head design) and with just new tech , made a cool 100 more HP. Look for yourself. Every auto maker had a hemi design , over head cams and pushrod desighns. The 427 Ford Cammer had Hemispherical heads. There is also the Shotgun heads(aftermarket) for Ford's 385 series. But Dodge lit the world up with this engine. And it had staying power. They're in the history books forever as a winner.
Sainty Engines Australia do not use Hemi,s in top fuel . They build their own 3 valve Over Head Cam motor, ANDRA ( Australian National Drag Race Association)had to change the rules to allow it , . The reason the Hemi is the only used in the US is NHRA ( National Hot Rod Association) only allows the Hemi as a base motor to keep costs down . The 1966 Oldsmobile W43 455 ci or the 425 ci version with Hemi heads and 4 valves per cylinder would have been a game changer , it was also a push rod engine . And the heads could go on any Big Block Olds ( or small block for that matter) . The W43 package was so close to production some 1967/8 Cutless owners manuals have mantainence guidelines for the W43 engine in them . There were 10 Cutless,s with 455 ci 4 valve motors installed , one was at SEMA a few years ago on the GM stand.
@@JosephCowen-fz8vjThey didn't have the Balls to build it ONLY Chrysler Corporation BUILT production assembly line HEMI cars and trucks starting in 1951 and of course the 426 HEMI of 1964 and starting in 1966 the 426 Street HEMIS
@@AntiZOGZone are you stupid ? Do you think A US company invented the Hemi ? Really , just like the US won WW2 , all fake , Mercedes Benz had a Hemi in 1904 , Get a grip on reality, Ford had a OHC Hemi but Chrysler had a big cry and got it excluded, the Australian Sainty V8 top fuel dragster motor , out did the Chrysler many times over , poor old pushrod tech from the 1930s , please a Rolls Royce Merlin V12 had over head cams and 4 valves in 1939 , get over it .
Not true at all ! Most engines your giving credit to Dodge for are all re-defined replica's like Keith Black and several other companies. Being all aluminum didn't hurt either right ! But in its day when the Hemi was new and in true form , in Drag racing it lost to Fords Boss 429 more than it won ! Just sayin , check your history 👍
*_Gasoline is never "exploded" in an Internal Combustion Engine it is burned. Much akin to lighting a cigarette lighter just in an enclosed area under compression. When gasoline is exploded it is known as detonation. And detonation kills piston engines quick. Diesel Engines explode their fuel by compression that's why they rattle. The rattle is the fuel exploding and not burning. Diesel Engines are built Rock of Gibraltar tough to withstand "exploding" their fuel._*
I think it was more due to regulations. The Hemi was an $800 stand-alone option while the 440 could be had for about $200. This is why Hemis are so rare and were often found in base model cars.
@@unkulwilly The biggest reason GM dropped fuel injection was that nobody knew how to work on it outside of a Chevrolet dealership and not even all the dealerships were good at working on it. When it started acting up most people just replaced it with a carburetor anyway.
turbine shown in the video is actually a better powered version as 1200hp-dealership-delivered configuration was possible and in mass cheaper to manufacturing ect its DOD/USA-gov that didn't like the ideas of civil usage as it's closely related to tanks/ship/aircraft used and Chrysler-LLC because of contracts would also have needed to build a new plant or expanding/remodel there old-plant aka spendy up-front and constrained more efforts to 727-programs/auto's ( i like manuals 4-8gear'd more but you can't get a jet to free-wheel/heat-shocking as it needs loading just on idling ( 500+K miles OD-reading's was also possible vs 30-90K on carb'd-pistons types of the 60's at that point body-rot/tries/rubber's/interior becomes a problem-ect ) so generator/E-motor/hybrid or pumping/torque-converter is needed to keep it from RUD-ing it's-self on top of ECU/red-line-limited ) and lock-up-torque converter's and 8-gear's ( and battery/hybrid technologies for the 80's/2000's era/tightening of rules ) ect to improve MPG/EPA/noise-control and that really stings ( my sibling really likes the dart/turboprop prototype's so that's how i know about it... ) as as 8-71 and or 440 to 572-types, currently replacing my 383( g-code? 1970, mod'd with TT 200hp-700hp level's/muff+MPG reason's ) with a iron-D8-hemi as my choice of aftermarket irons-head's/parts was limited and technically with EFI and turbocharged im hopefull that im going to be happy with it as carb's/dizzy's+k-casting's was/is a nightmare to daily's, max ~1970~ dealership's special i knowledge about was belt-driven packson twin-charged ( possible early EFI/tempermental or mechanically-injections also fussy but less than bendex/carbs were ) and 440-620ci and 600-850~hp and it wasn't known for reliability's but someone like Shelby/MR-norms was willingness to try/selling for $$$$ so good luck finding it nowadays in museum condition as it's rare+$$$$$ and im also counts for prototypes~lower-product/sold like FF100 Jenson UK-vin's
the factory 426 Hemi heads were not cast aluminum. they were made of cast iron. you could only get the aluminum heads through Mopar's Direct Connection, or through the aftermarket.
write and wrong the early( first to 3 quarter business-year, and ie-1970-dealership's delivery's-special's like mr-Norman that would replace the hardware off the truck before customers-pickup ) 1st-gen charger's ( i have a 2G-non-JorX-vin with a in-work's D8-iron EFI 540~ci+TR6070 combo ) with alcoa/K-casting's ( speaking of im looking for the hybrid twin-plug valve covers that are magnesium or aluminium casting's( leaking/NVH reason's and i like the OG-polish'ed+shape look's ) street-gasket's but bigger ( K-casting design ) cut-out for passengers-side-USA magneto's/pump's in my use for DI-pump/VVL+VVT-control-ect ) did happen and there's dealership's morpar-direct connection and or magazine personally i like fully-iron in my TT charger70~ as it loses less heat to rad and better MPG's and 10-50HP-gain ect, but for something like a boss-hoss bike full-ally as 800-1500lb's+boosted is unwieldy ect
@@MichaelBrown-yp1eq Yes, as well as the ball-stud hemi. I've been into mopars 35 years, have a whole fleet of them. My Dad was a drag racer in southern California in the early 60s so I got a lot of the car culture and started reading all the mopar magazines when I was a teenager. That being said, I learn something new all the time.
The gen-2 426 Hemi was designed as a high RPM (600+ HP) NASCAR engine. The detuned screen versions were still mid to high RPM engines. The lower RPM 440 created more torque off the line and was a bit quicker from 0 to 60 in muscle cars
If MoPar had the sense to offer the 440 SIx-Pack with aluminum heads there'd have been no justification for a Hemi. The Hemi was 128 extra pounds heavier stock for about 3% more performance. Make sense to you?
Eh I don’t think the 440 was that good, but the hemi really doesn’t stand out nearly as much as everybody else not really thriving other than race situations where it was only king because it just barely made more horsepower than weight
The beauty of the hemi is not what it was coming out of the factory but what it was capable of. It was designed as a race engine not as a grocery getter. It had the potential to make virtually unlimited power in comparison to engines designed to just get you from point a to b.
Connie Kalitta and Don Prudhomme, both earned 1966 NHRA victories in dragsters powered by supercharged versions of the Ford 427 SOHC engine running on nitromethane fuel. Kalitta drove his Bounty Hunter entry into the winners’ circle at the season-opening Winternationals at Pomona, Calif., while Prudhomme prevailed at the Springnationals at Bristol, Tenn., in Carroll Shelby’s Super Snake entry powered by the same engine. At the 1967 NHRA Springnationals held at Bristol. Prudhomme posted the fastest qualifying time and became the first top fuel driver to break into ‘6s at a NHRA national meet and the first to break 220 mph (6.99 @220mph). He also ran sub-7second times in three of four elimination runs (shut off early when opponent fouled in the other run). Prudhomme beat fellow Ford driver Pete Robinson in the final. There's plenty of other classes (AFX Gas Rhonda, Ohio George Montgomery A/GS 4 championships, Dyno Don Nicholson match racing) and others that also utilized the Cammer and beat the best Chrysler had to offer. Also to note. The 351C was the most handicapped engine in PS racing history, not the HEMI. No oe cast HEMI has run 5.88 @ 256mph, but a little oe cast 4.6 4V has. No oe cast HEMI has run anywhere near 300.4 mph in a standing mile, but Fords oe cast 5.4L 4V has. Not an oe cast HEMI on planet earth has won overall Sick Week,Tx2k24,Import vs Domestic, but a prepped oe cast Predator/Coyote has and set the drag and drive radial record 6.26 @ 227mph. The HEMI is overhyped outside of nitro racing.
@@chadkent1241 Arrgh Yes they have...!!! MoPar You are with us, Or you are behind us...!!! Hemi rules you know it... Now blow your nose and get in to bed...!!!
Fords were so great that Prudhomme left Ford in 1969 to stay competitive with theMopars. He earned his greatest performance and racing fame in his yellow, 1970 Hemi powered “Snake” Barracuda.
My how things change over time, in the sixties there were 5.4 litre engines making 180 horsepower..... in the late 1990's Volkswagen (Audi) built a 1781 cc engine that makes 180 hp ! Just imagine where we'd be if dual overhead cams. variable valve timing and turbo chargers had been applied to the old V8's 'back in the day' !
The 66-69 street Hemi had solid lifters and could rev seriously well, along with those huge flowing heads. But in 70, Mopar went to the hydraulic lifters design and power was lost. Also wouldn't Rev like the 69 Beast.
That's where the weekend warriors come in. All these things were easily fixed. Especially for an engine that responded well to changes. I'm talking about folks that made a lot of stuff themselves before it could be bought.
@@bobdavis3357 I hope we can agree that any of these rarities , and I'm talking all makes would be nice to have in your possession. I have had so many and damn myself for letting them go. Ithink the biggest regrets were my 67 GT Fastback Mustang , a 69 GT Fastback Torino , a 70 Challenger and a 73 340 'Cufa. Alot more but I never paid more than $1000 for any. Ain't happening now.
Street hemi "slightly detuned"? That's an understatement. The 426 Street Hemi is likely the most over hyped engine of the 1960s. Don't get me wrong the race cars running this engine were AWSOME. The Street Hemi though? Not-so-much. Chrysler's most legendary and Iconic engine is often the subject of TALL TALES pretty exaggerated 55-60 years later.
Most of today's 4 valve heads have kind of a hemispherical combustion chamber. the valves are 30 degrees, not 45. But the sparkplug is exactly in the center.
Jaguar engineers could have told Chrysler all they needed to know about hemi heads in 1947. The Jaguar XK 120 was for sale in 1948, when Chrysler was still using side valve sixes !!!
Oh yes the are/were!!! right down to the 2 spark plug per cylinder heads. Had domed shaped head chambers and valves opposite each other intake valve next to the intake port and the exhaust valve next to the exhaust port... just didn't have domed pistons for shitty gas compression reasons. Look it up there you non believin' heathin'!!!
@@Islamisthecultofsin Until they run out of power!!! Wave goodbye when they are on the side of the road or at the charging station...waiting for the peak power usage to pass.
I was fortunate to own a real ‘68 Hemi Dart and ran it in 72-74 as a Pro Stock and Modified Production entry. Fortunate to own a real one. A complete idiot to sell it in the late ‘70 for under $10K 😢
425 hp was at a low rpm, rated at just a few more rpm hp was WAY over 500 spark plugs were easy to get to- thank god you could get the Hemi in most anything except Imperial if you knew who to ask Convertible superbird with AC- just ask me and code as a "show car"
It made the best power for sure. But in actaulity, the second gen hemi only lasted 7 years and was so expensive, very few were sold. In comparison, the mark 4 big block Chevy, didn’t make as much power, but it’s basic platform lasted from 1965 to 2005. So who really won, even to this day, they are extremely expensive to own.
Get the facts right, in' '65 the Hemi was banned from NASCAR it reentered in '66 with the rule change of at least 500 cars had to be made for public sale. Also in '71 NASCAR and NHRA added weight rules making Hemi cars noncompetitive thus ending their reign!!!
Reign,? The Torino Talladegas won more races than any other model 1969-70. Ford racked up more wins btwn 63-70 than any other manufacturer. It only reigned in the minds of Mopar fans.
And ftr, the 351C was the most handicapped engine in PS racing history and when the 500 in³ rule was implemented, Bob Glidden smoked the HEMIs in Pro Stock 5 years in a row with his BOSS 429 powered Thunderbirds. (85-89)
That's a truth the GM camp can't seem to swallow. After '62, the fight was always Ford vs Chrysler and look at 1965....when Dodge stepped out, Ford won all but 4 races the entire season. Chevy had ZILCH to compete.
Chevy was a after thought in 1960s Nascar. Not only was a big block Chevy down at least 50-75 horse power to a full race HEMI the Chebies had weak bottom ends and blew up alot F'N around with deep skirt FE Fords and HEMIS on the Big Nascar tracks.
Also, The short wheel base Chrysler Corporation's Dodge and Plymouth Racing Cars you could buy Straight from the factory! Both of These Dodge's and Plymouth's Short Wheel Base Racing Vehicles were given Their Names By NHRA FAN'S, The Fans Called Chrysler's Wonder Racer, "Funny Cars", because of thei4 short wheel base! By Moving the Rear End Forward The Engine Transfers power more Quickly to the RearEnd; Therefore, Quicker ET'S and more money for the Racer's and Their Team!
Ford's still dominated the 426 hemi in nascar.. fun fact. The Ford 427 SOHC engine is the only engine effectively banned by NASCAR before even making it to the track (thus, the legendary status).
Wasn't considered a production engine only a handful ever hand built outside the Ford factory. THAT is why it was banned. Why do you think the 500 minimum production car/engine limit to be legal came to be??? And from what I have learned over the years about the "oh so bad but really never was" big bad Ford cammer engine is that people in the know knew the engine wouldn't last a 500 mile race because of the horrendously long timing chain required among other issues. Just repeating research I have done in the past to learn of this beast that in my mind really never existed. Besides Chrysler knew of it and was already prepared to up the anti with an even better Hemi but saw no need to unholster it so it never went into production. Look it up it's the real deal. Also how can you say Ford dominated the 426 in NASCAR when the King Richard won 27 of 42 races in one season ('67) in his mighty Mopar. Ford dominated after GM had pulled out and the King protested Chrysler for not giving him a winged car so he made the switch to Ford for one year when he was in his driving prime. And you don't need to keep deleting my comments I am only giving you the facts...if that butt hurts you blame Ford...
@bultacowally nice post, but ford still won the Nascar points totals from 1963-1969. Dominating the hemi powered cars. The 426 hemi was a PITA to drive on the street and keep running. I'll take a scj 429 or a boss anyway. Hemis are too much of a fanboy motor .. like a bitchy trophy girlfriend. Nice to look at but nothing you want to live with Sunday thru Thursday.
@@reddyfreddycan verify. I have a 5.7 hemi and my buddy has a 5.0 coyote. I can’t even sit and idle without it ticking. Mind you he has an early coyote so I’m faster but I would rather not strew for lifters
Boss 429 owns gen 2 most hemi for NASCAR. Drag racing its the other way. Sohc ford motors are legit except they were never homogenized so…… they really don’t count. Speaking from ownership experience. That’s right I actually own these and know what I’m about.
First automotive Hemi? Not even close. Engines with hemispherical combustion chambers date from the early 1900s. While some of these were racing engines, both BMW and Jaguar had hemi head engines in production models before Chysler.
It was never built or sold in enough volume to ever be a factor for most hot rodders. We could and did pull 383s and 440s out of New Yorkers and Imperials and stuff them into E and A bodies. Hemis were always too expensive for the average Joe.
It is right down to the hemispherical head chambers, dual spark plugs, and valves opposite across from each other not next to with two rows of rocker arms on each side...if that ain't a Hemi then your name ain't Buckwheat. But it is and you is!!!
Generally well done but littered with stock footage of design and engineering that has no bearing on this particular engine. Still my favorite engine, though. B plus
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@@SUV_Zone the 440 wedge
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@@SUV_Zone The 69 ZL1 all aluminum 427 CI Chevrolet V8 Rat.
No, your research is terrible. At least 5 major mistakes in your comments.
@@roberthill2219 Well, MY research is not flawed
I laughed when I heard "left skidmarks on the pages of history". I guess it wiped it's butt with the competition lol
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Its a 4 turd stroke overrated POS. American muscle would so much more awesome with 2 stroke DFI orbital injection v8 and i-6 options. Car culture seem like a 4 joke stroke only cult, never understood that.
@@jlo13800 Interesting perspective. What are your ideal engine choices in your opinion?
@@manher4335 DFI 2 stroke with exhaust trapping sleeve valves. Oil injected dry sump.
Naming the 426 Hemi the Elephant was actually meant as an insult. When Chrysler developed it and pressured the race drivers to use it, they called it Elephant because "It just doesn't run". Don Garlits hated it because it didn't perform as well as the 392 and got fed up being pressured by Chrysler so he cranked in a whole bunch of timing figuring it would blow up and that would be the end of it, instead he broke 200 mph and the rest is history.
Any feller would fuckin know dam shoure him
It was those massive combustion chambers on the 426 HEMI. It took a large amount of initial timing to make power with that much area to fill.
Yeah, the 1960s Hemis sold in tiny numbers and had little effect on most people... plus Chargers were so heavy it needed a tank motor just to move it... problem was the domed pistons needed to match the domed chamber made the pistons so heavy it was hard to keep them on the rods at high RPMs... the 1950s hemis were designed for low RPMs breathing efficiency like WWII aircraft needed and Chrysler bragged of GOOD MPG!
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Yeah, I'm in my 50's, my recollection was of hard core Mopar fans that swore by the 440, would make that comment "if you can keep it running" regarding the 426 if they commented about it at all. A 440 with either a six pack or double four barrels were the sought after engines.
I just loved the 426 street Hemi. Working with my dad, and a friend who was an expert wrench-master at a Chrysler dealership, we built a "426 Hemi Q-ship." On the outside (unless you looked hard) it was a boxy, forest green Plymouth Valiant. But inside . . . it had a narrowed rear end, and up front the frame was strengthened in the same way as the 426 Road Runner. It was an absolute killer Friday night street racer. Guys would pull up next to it at a stoplight, and you could almost hear the sneer as they looked across at the Valiant in the other lane. Yup. Right up until the light changed. I was in High School, hot-rod crazy, and I knew I could rely on the "Q Ship." So, drop the hammer and off we'd go, and the only thing the guy with the sneer on his face saw was the tail lights. Man, I loved that car. One day, my dad came home without it. He was driving a Dodge Dart with a 360 - the bastard child of the super-strong small block, the 318. Turned out my mother, who used the Valiant often, wasn't crazy about the feel of raw horsepower, and by that time the fuel price war had been started by OPEC - a battle we're still in today. The Valiant was bought by the master mechanic who'd helped build it, and he took that Hemi and dropped it into a Road Runner, set up for drag racing. And he raced it for years, and it never blew up, rarely gave problems, and won more often than not. If I'd been a few years older with a better paying job, I could have bought one of the classic 426 models for myself - a "Kowalski" Challenger, or a bright orange Road Runner. But those got very expensive very quickly after Chrysler ended production of Hemi-equipped street cars. I still loved tinkering with engines, and after reading some articles, myself and a couple of friends built a "Clevor" - the marriage of the two different 350's made in Windsor, Ontario and Cleveland, OH. That was fun, but it lacked the sheer glamour of the Hemi. I know that engine is still out there, and I hope the current owner loves it as much as I did.
The 1968 here in Detroit on the East Side.My father worked at the Chrysler stamping plant. We went on a monday and ordered a sixty eight road runner with a pistol grip hemi. We picked it up that Friday from the dealership.It was built here in detroit Dodge maine. We took it Later on that night on Woodward Avenue. But before we stopped at the local Shell gas station and He filled it up with race gas. It was Is truly main event that night. And most Friday saturday night SS Chevelle killer. The only luxury it had in it from the dealer was an ashtray , no cigarette lighter , no radio.
My generation. Sitting in Steak and Shake on a Saturday night and watching these beasts roll through the parking lot. You couldn't fill up the fourteen gallon tank without turning the engine off.
LOL! Before Steak and Shake it was White Hut Restaurants we cruised through... but the food was bad so we went to Big Boy and McDonald's to eat/drink...
Its a true cross flow cylinder head design. Not found in most engines of the time. It started out as a race engine then offered to the public. In my opionin the king of the V8's.
The Ford 429 walks all over this engine. You need to do some homework
@@BruceDragon-sf1tr NHRA TopFuel.
@sirswerve2493 bro stop the bullchhh, Dodge never had anything better than Ford nor Chevy. Stop talking crazy bro
@@BruceDragon-sf1tr When you say it like that I really dont want to continue with this argument. I really dont think your mature enough to talk like adults. All these brands have made junk and respectable vehicles and engines. You find a 429-460 in the junk yard and its just sitting there collecting dust and rust. A HEMI engine let alone a HEMI car found in the junk yard would never be found. Why is that? Not saying I dont like the 429-460. I just dont see the argument. Now with the 427 Cammer or the 427 FE , especially the Ford FE 427 TUNNEL PORT I can see the argument.
@sirswerve2493 I'm going to help your mental side with just one question.... how come Dodge always went bankruptcy?? *don't make yourself look like a a× when you answer this
Best drag racing engine EVER MADE!!.....PERIOD!!
I was a parts manager, the service manager, the Zone manager I remember fouling spark plugs anytime anyone drove on. We had HUNDREDS of Superbirds and Cudas that we had to give away when the gas crisis hit I had been running a Max wedge, tough to beat on the street
Great documentary of a very iconic and desirable American engine. If a HEMI is in a vehicle, the vehicle is desirable. Those built by Ray Barton and Keith Black are the very epitome of the elephant!
The ls7 is the 426's father
When I was 12 twelve years old, two brothers down the street owned a Charger RT Green and a Road Runner Orange . Those cars were so cool !!!! they would see us kids down the street and they would light up the tires for us, how awesome !! Never ever forget those days...We should always thank Dodge for setting the Bar for car performance, even until the last few years w/ Hellcats and Demons, if it wasn't for Dodge we would not have Ford and Chevy putting out their Monstrous HP engines !! Long live Dodge Brothers !!
68 Hemi Dart...Drool factor 11 !!!
My dad bought a 68 plymouth roadrunner runner back in the early 70s . His brother had the 440 gtx , and two of his cousins both had roadrunners . I wish I had seen the other three cars as an adult. Sadly, I wasn't able to see those cars .My uncle still owns the gtx, and one day, I may drive the 4 hours to go see it . What happened to my dad's 68 plymouth roadrunner ....... He gave it to me when I was in high school . Drove it had fun with it and today ..... I still have my old Mopar and love it .
0:56 Eating dust? Get your facts right.... The 426 Max Wedge was still a very capable race engine in 1963 and was still a force to be reckoned with. However the Max Wedge cylinder head was pretty much developed to the point of being "Max'd" out. With GM and Ford were starting to taking home some substantial wins which forced Chrysler to turn to R&D to find an answer, and they returned to the HEMI head design.
The max wedge heads were good but the 392 hemis were still dominating the drag strip especially with blowers. It was a perfect match to put the hemi heads on the B/RB deep skirted block. 5 head bolts per cylinder and not having any coolant in the intake made it a perfect setup
Soooo much goodness in one package!!!
American engineering at its finest
Some rich American should buy back Chrysler & bring 'em home.
Right On !
Walter Chrysler's great grandson made them an offer to buy Dodge and Chrysler back and they turned him down. The goal is apparently to destroy Chrysler and Un-Americanize it.
I'd love to be part of a Group who wants to buy Chrysler,Dodge ,Ram, and the Rights to the Old Chrysler Corporation and everything that Belongs to it.Little people All getting together to fund the purchase it sickens me to see it Being Dissolved piece by piece until there is Nothing left.
Yes that be great
@@AntiZOGZone - You can't go back home... those days are gone... going electric... soulless appliances...
Back in the day, I was a hard-line Ford Bigot!! But the fact is Ford, GM, Chrysler and American Motors produced some really badass V8s!! Even their small V8s were pretty awesome!! Chevy's 283 and Ford's 289 were no small potaterz!!
Glorious V8's ALL pure joy!
i agree 100%, Marc from France (HEMI Ram 2006 ) 😉👍
American V-8 car engines used the same basic design. Ford, GM and Mopar in almost all of their V-8s. But the Hemi was different because the intake valves were angled in a way to get better volumetric efficiency.
The intake air, didn’t have to make another 90 degree angle turn to charge the cylinders with air. They did the same thing with the exhaust valves, which helped get rid of the exhaust gases more efficiently.
Power is all about how well the engine can breathe to make more power.
Great video. Those were the days.
The hemi is a great engine but the greatest? Stretching it . There were some fantastic engines from a lot of manufacturers in that period. I love them all.
ONLY in nitro racing, outside of that.... nowhere near the best.
Ford sohc owns mopar hemi. Done. End of sentence. Coming from a 2 time boss hemi and moose hemi owner
Ford 427 SOHC Cammer. 620 - 660 HP from the factory. And 160 lb lighter than a 426 Hemi. Ford sold it as a crate engine for $2,300, a zero mile cammer just sold for $140,000 in 2023.
@@thereisnospoon52 and what production car was the cammer in? That’s right it wasn’t. Why don’t you compare the cammer to an arias hemi or a billet 2jz
Wow, beautiful video review on the 426 Hemi, love it, and thank you for an amazing informative video. Will share it.
Awesome video!!!
The 426 HEMI was not run in NASCAR in 1965. The HEMI returned in 1966 when it also entered street duty. The 425HP was at 5200 RPM, it made 500HP at 6000 RPM. This was perhaps the most famous derate in history. As for the 1964 Daytona 500, the HEMI took 7 of the top 10 spots at the finish. The HEMI is known world wide for its performance.
I don’t know how anyone can love a Honda or a Toyota over this
Hay the 2jz gte is a giant killer of an engine, there is no denying it...!!! Its a weapon
miles per gallon. !
@@RobertKerkhof communist
Nuclear reactor is best metaphor for that robust engine in 1963. Impressive!
Thanks for posting.👍👍👍
interesting but you left out one very important fact,,PONTIAC dominated Nascar 1960-1963,and the mopar engineers and other people went around to all the mopar racers and asked ,,"what is going to take to beat Pontiac??" and the answer was always the same ,,"bring back the hemi !!!!" ,, and thus was born the 426 Hemi,, courtesy of Pontiac....all you mopar fans remember that when you see a old pontiac on the road, and give them a thumbs up ....
And the Ball Stud Hemi was something else
yes it was...not a production engine. Was waiting in the wings to see if Ford started the 427 cammer engine production but of course that never happened so Chrysler kept the Ball stud Hemi holstered...
Knock will happen when the fuel is ignited to much before top dead center or from low octane which burns to fast. Edges in the combustion chamber will get hot enough to ignite fuel causing the Knock. Timing adjustment will usually help unless compression is above something like 9.5 to 1 and up.
My father was an Area Manager for Chrysler, he drove land yachts the company supplied him, fed up he requested HQ send him something that had some 'guts'. soon a green challenger showed up with that 426 under the hood, it was virtually a weapon!, undriveable in the city. Later he discovered they had sent him the race version of a car Chrysler was considering for homologation, he got the bug and the next one was a Charger 440 R/T
Oldsmobile had the W43 455 ci and 425 ci version 4 valve per cylinder pushrod motor ready to go in cars in 1967/8 . I was so close to production and would have been a game changer .
JUNK!!!
@@AntiZOGZone really , so was the 426 Hemi , wake up , smell the roses , the Olds would have knocked the Hemi into tomorrow!
@@JosephCowen-fz8vj Goofy is what you are
@@AntiZOGZone your a flop ! Go back to the sand box , touch some more kids up and get a real life, I've tracked your ISP and I saw what you looked up , I'm going to make it public , wow ,
But they didn't do it. Ray Barton took this engine after the lifted the ban in SS (due to Superior head design) and with just new tech , made a cool 100 more HP. Look for yourself. Every auto maker had a hemi design , over head cams and pushrod desighns. The 427 Ford Cammer had Hemispherical heads. There is also the Shotgun heads(aftermarket) for Ford's 385 series. But Dodge lit the world up with this engine. And it had staying power. They're in the history books forever as a winner.
All funny cars and top fuel use the hemi engine, even of they are camaros or mustangs
Sainty Engines Australia do not use Hemi,s in top fuel . They build their own 3 valve Over Head Cam motor, ANDRA ( Australian National Drag Race Association)had to change the rules to allow it , . The reason the Hemi is the only used in the US is NHRA ( National Hot Rod Association) only allows the Hemi as a base motor to keep costs down .
The 1966 Oldsmobile W43 455 ci or the 425 ci version with Hemi heads and 4 valves per cylinder would have been a game changer , it was also a push rod engine . And the heads could go on any Big Block Olds ( or small block for that matter) . The W43 package was so close to production some 1967/8 Cutless owners manuals have mantainence guidelines for the W43 engine in them . There were 10 Cutless,s with 455 ci 4 valve motors installed , one was at SEMA a few years ago on the GM stand.
@@JosephCowen-fz8vjThey didn't have the Balls to build it ONLY Chrysler Corporation BUILT production assembly line HEMI cars and trucks starting in 1951 and of course the 426 HEMI of 1964 and starting in 1966 the 426 Street HEMIS
@@AntiZOGZone are you stupid ? Do you think A US company invented the Hemi ? Really , just like the US won WW2 , all fake , Mercedes Benz had a Hemi in 1904 , Get a grip on reality, Ford had a OHC Hemi but Chrysler had a big cry and got it excluded, the Australian Sainty V8 top fuel dragster motor , out did the Chrysler many times over , poor old pushrod tech from the 1930s , please a Rolls Royce Merlin V12 had over head cams and 4 valves in 1939 , get over it .
Not true at all !
Most engines your giving credit to Dodge for are all re-defined replica's like Keith Black and several other companies.
Being all aluminum didn't hurt either right !
But in its day when the Hemi was new and in true form , in Drag racing it lost to Fords Boss 429 more than it won !
Just sayin , check your history 👍
@@blschurch1919 You ignorant 🤡🤣😂
Almost 5 minutes of hype before finally getting to the heads. You’re welcome.
Even as a Mopar guy I idolized the hemi engine.. then I finally grew up and realized the hemi is expensive and overrated. Buying a name.
"I'll never understand how the Americans manage to get so little horsepower from so much displacement."
- Jeremy Clarkson -
who the hell is JC??? A REAL famous nobody???
@@bultacowally cry more
Jeremy Clarkson is an English smartass.
*_Gasoline is never "exploded" in an Internal Combustion Engine it is burned. Much akin to lighting a cigarette lighter just in an enclosed area under compression. When gasoline is exploded it is known as detonation. And detonation kills piston engines quick. Diesel Engines explode their fuel by compression that's why they rattle. The rattle is the fuel exploding and not burning. Diesel Engines are built Rock of Gibraltar tough to withstand "exploding" their fuel._*
Wtf ever
Great video and info!!! Liked and subd
They stop making them because the 440 was $5 cheaper to make. SMH
I think it was more due to regulations. The Hemi was an $800 stand-alone option while the 440 could be had for about $200. This is why Hemis are so rare and were often found in base model cars.
same reason Chevrolet dropped fuel injection on the Corvette after '65. $500 for a 375hp/350tq f.i. 327, or $250 for the 425hp/415tq 396.
@@unkulwilly The biggest reason GM dropped fuel injection was that nobody knew how to work on it outside of a Chevrolet dealership and not even all the dealerships were good at working on it. When it started acting up most people just replaced it with a carburetor anyway.
turbine shown in the video is actually a better powered version as 1200hp-dealership-delivered configuration was possible and in mass cheaper to manufacturing ect its DOD/USA-gov that didn't like the ideas of civil usage as it's closely related to tanks/ship/aircraft used and Chrysler-LLC because of contracts would also have needed to build a new plant or expanding/remodel there old-plant aka spendy up-front and constrained more efforts to 727-programs/auto's ( i like manuals 4-8gear'd more but you can't get a jet to free-wheel/heat-shocking as it needs loading just on idling ( 500+K miles OD-reading's was also possible vs 30-90K on carb'd-pistons types of the 60's at that point body-rot/tries/rubber's/interior becomes a problem-ect ) so generator/E-motor/hybrid or pumping/torque-converter is needed to keep it from RUD-ing it's-self on top of ECU/red-line-limited ) and lock-up-torque converter's and 8-gear's ( and battery/hybrid technologies for the 80's/2000's era/tightening of rules ) ect to improve MPG/EPA/noise-control
and that really stings ( my sibling really likes the dart/turboprop prototype's so that's how i know about it... ) as as 8-71 and or 440 to 572-types, currently replacing my 383( g-code? 1970, mod'd with TT 200hp-700hp level's/muff+MPG reason's ) with a iron-D8-hemi as my choice of aftermarket irons-head's/parts was limited and technically with EFI and turbocharged im hopefull that im going to be happy with it as carb's/dizzy's+k-casting's was/is a nightmare to daily's, max ~1970~ dealership's special i knowledge about was belt-driven packson twin-charged ( possible early EFI/tempermental or mechanically-injections also fussy but less than bendex/carbs were ) and 440-620ci and 600-850~hp and it wasn't known for reliability's but someone like Shelby/MR-norms was willingness to try/selling for $$$$ so good luck finding it nowadays in museum condition as it's rare+$$$$$ and im also counts for prototypes~lower-product/sold like FF100 Jenson UK-vin's
@@richardprice5978 say what????? would you repeat that???
the factory 426 Hemi heads were not cast aluminum. they were made of cast iron. you could only get the aluminum heads through Mopar's Direct Connection, or through the aftermarket.
write and wrong the early( first to 3 quarter business-year, and ie-1970-dealership's delivery's-special's like mr-Norman that would replace the hardware off the truck before customers-pickup ) 1st-gen charger's ( i have a 2G-non-JorX-vin with a in-work's D8-iron EFI 540~ci+TR6070 combo ) with alcoa/K-casting's ( speaking of im looking for the hybrid twin-plug valve covers that are magnesium or aluminium casting's( leaking/NVH reason's and i like the OG-polish'ed+shape look's ) street-gasket's but bigger ( K-casting design ) cut-out for passengers-side-USA magneto's/pump's in my use for DI-pump/VVL+VVT-control-ect ) did happen and there's dealership's morpar-direct connection and or magazine
personally i like fully-iron in my TT charger70~ as it loses less heat to rad and better MPG's and 10-50HP-gain ect, but for something like a boss-hoss bike full-ally as 800-1500lb's+boosted is unwieldy ect
The 1965 A990 race hemi package had factory aluminum heads. But generally yes.
@@herbferguson; I forgot all about the A990 race Hemi. most of the people that I knew that drag race had the iron head Hemi.
@@herbferguson; do you know about the proto type DOHC 426 Hemi?
@@MichaelBrown-yp1eq Yes, as well as the ball-stud hemi. I've been into mopars 35 years, have a whole fleet of them. My Dad was a drag racer in southern California in the early 60s so I got a lot of the car culture and started reading all the mopar magazines when I was a teenager. That being said, I learn something new all the time.
The real King of the big blocks 🧐🧐🧐🧐
Contrast that with the present era where a baseline 302 cubic inch engine (Ford Coyote), generates 460 horsepower. we have come a long way indeed.
The gen-2 426 Hemi was designed as a high RPM (600+ HP) NASCAR engine. The detuned screen versions were still mid to high RPM engines. The lower RPM 440 created more torque off the line and was a bit quicker from 0 to 60 in muscle cars
The 440 was a better “street” motor. But a 426. lol the legends write themselves
If MoPar had the sense to offer the 440 SIx-Pack with aluminum heads there'd have been no justification for a Hemi. The Hemi was 128 extra pounds heavier stock for about 3% more performance. Make sense to you?
Eh I don’t think the 440 was that good, but the hemi really doesn’t stand out nearly as much as everybody else not really thriving other than race situations where it was only king because it just barely made more horsepower than weight
The beauty of the hemi is not what it was coming out of the factory but what it was capable of. It was designed as a race engine not as a grocery getter. It had the potential to make virtually unlimited power in comparison to engines designed to just get you from point a to b.
@@benjaminwatson7868 go back to sleep snot nose.
Connie Kalitta and Don Prudhomme, both earned 1966 NHRA victories in dragsters powered by supercharged versions of the Ford 427 SOHC engine running on nitromethane fuel. Kalitta drove his Bounty Hunter entry into the winners’ circle at the season-opening Winternationals at Pomona, Calif., while Prudhomme prevailed at the Springnationals at Bristol, Tenn., in Carroll Shelby’s Super Snake entry powered by the same engine.
At the 1967 NHRA Springnationals held at Bristol. Prudhomme posted the fastest qualifying time and became the first top fuel driver to break into ‘6s at a NHRA national meet and the first to break 220 mph (6.99 @220mph). He also ran sub-7second times in three of four elimination runs (shut off early when opponent fouled in the other run). Prudhomme beat fellow Ford driver Pete Robinson in the final.
There's plenty of other classes (AFX Gas Rhonda, Ohio George Montgomery A/GS 4 championships, Dyno Don Nicholson match racing) and others that also utilized the Cammer and beat the best Chrysler had to offer.
Also to note. The 351C was the most handicapped engine in PS racing history, not the HEMI.
No oe cast HEMI has run 5.88 @ 256mph, but a little oe cast 4.6 4V has.
No oe cast HEMI has run anywhere near 300.4 mph in a standing mile, but Fords oe cast 5.4L 4V has.
Not an oe cast HEMI on planet earth has won overall Sick Week,Tx2k24,Import vs Domestic, but a prepped oe cast Predator/Coyote has and set the drag and drive radial record 6.26 @ 227mph.
The HEMI is overhyped outside of nitro racing.
Your opinion is yours and yours only.
Facts dont care about your feelings.
@@stepanbandera5206 Dead right brother...!!!
@@chadkent1241 Arrgh Yes they have...!!! MoPar You are with us, Or you are behind us...!!! Hemi rules you know it... Now blow your nose and get in to bed...!!!
Fords were so great that Prudhomme left Ford in 1969 to stay competitive with theMopars. He earned his greatest performance and racing fame in his yellow, 1970 Hemi powered “Snake” Barracuda.
@@uraswami8077 lol, touche'
My how things change over time, in the sixties there were 5.4 litre engines making 180 horsepower..... in the late 1990's Volkswagen (Audi) built a 1781 cc engine that makes 180 hp !
Just imagine where we'd be if dual overhead cams. variable valve timing and turbo chargers had been applied to the old V8's 'back in the day' !
Aluminum heads? I didn’t know that. Some photos are the 440 6bbl.
I❤ That engine! My 5.7 hemi is fast but that is a 🐘 and a 🐐
The 66-69 street Hemi had solid lifters and could rev seriously well, along with those huge flowing heads. But in 70, Mopar went to the hydraulic lifters design and power was lost. Also wouldn't Rev like the 69 Beast.
That's where the weekend warriors come in. All these things were easily fixed. Especially for an engine that responded well to changes. I'm talking about folks that made a lot of stuff themselves before it could be bought.
@@srt8rocketship241 agreed
@@bobdavis3357 I hope we can agree that any of these rarities , and I'm talking all makes would be nice to have in your possession. I have had so many and damn myself for letting them go. Ithink the biggest regrets were my 67 GT Fastback Mustang , a 69 GT Fastback Torino , a 70 Challenger and a 73 340 'Cufa. Alot more but I never paid more than $1000 for any. Ain't happening now.
@@srt8rocketship241 oh, I readily concur with your sentiment, exactly !
Street hemi "slightly detuned"? That's an understatement. The 426 Street Hemi is likely the most over hyped engine of the 1960s. Don't get me wrong the race cars running this engine were AWSOME. The Street Hemi though? Not-so-much. Chrysler's most legendary and Iconic engine is often the subject of TALL TALES pretty exaggerated 55-60 years later.
1963 was the year for the F.E 427 Cammer Hemi Gas Ronda 65 world champ in a/fx racing
BEST V8 ENGINE EVER MADE.....Thank you.....
I remember in the early 70's during the gas crisis, these cars were cheap! A google search says 10,669 total production of the 426 hemi engine.
And then one day the hemi came!
walk quietly and carry a big stick..................................or a Hemi!!!!
Most of today's 4 valve heads have kind of a hemispherical combustion chamber. the valves are 30 degrees, not 45. But the sparkplug is exactly in the center.
Jaguar engineers could have told Chrysler all they needed to know about hemi heads in 1947. The Jaguar XK 120 was for sale in 1948, when Chrysler was still using side valve sixes !!!
And Alfa Romeo from the 1920s
@@mikecoolperson1 yeah thats right and those 6bangers were more potent than those xk120 and most Defnatly more reliable. 😉
Great video, but it always cracks me up when someone mentions the 21st century Hemi and ignorantly states the heads are not truly hemispherical!
I was disappointed to hear that the HEMI is not a true HEMI of back in the day. We still got the power
Oh yes the are/were!!! right down to the 2 spark plug per cylinder heads. Had domed shaped head chambers and valves opposite each other intake valve next to the intake port and the exhaust valve next to the exhaust port... just didn't have domed pistons for shitty gas compression reasons. Look it up there you non believin' heathin'!!!
Ya well that is at the end!!🥲🥲🥲of a era!! Now coming out with electric cars….. crap👎👎
Don't criticize electric when nothing can catch them.
@@Islamisthecultofsin Until they run out of power!!! Wave goodbye when they are on the side of the road or at the charging station...waiting for the peak power usage to pass.
It looks like EV's will NOT inherit the earth. For a while Hybrids will though....
@@Islamisthecultofsin ya until your battery goes dead on the highway and i am driving by😂😂😂😂😂👋👋👋👋👋
@@VincentBuono They've got batteries with 600 mile ranges. Your ICE car can't do that.
Mine rides a Hemi Commando 1967 Plymouth Belvedere II. 13.5X1 Compression. 2 plugs per cylinder indicating, Race Hemi
I was fortunate to own a real ‘68 Hemi Dart and ran it in 72-74 as a Pro Stock and Modified Production entry. Fortunate to own a real one. A complete idiot to sell it in the late ‘70 for under $10K 😢
The Hemi is always handicapped with the other companies complaining instead of stepping up the game .
MOPAR baby 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻
the elephant was a factory built drag motor that was a 526 hemi
425 hp was at a low rpm, rated at just a few more rpm hp was WAY over 500 spark plugs were easy to get to- thank god
you could get the Hemi in most anything except Imperial if you knew who to ask Convertible superbird with AC- just ask me and code as a "show car"
It made the best power for sure. But in actaulity, the second gen hemi only lasted 7 years and was so expensive, very few were sold. In comparison, the mark 4 big block Chevy, didn’t make as much power, but it’s basic platform lasted from 1965 to 2005. So who really won, even to this day, they are extremely expensive to own.
now we got the HELEPhant, monster v 8
not so much now...that beast came and went in 1 day. Like 3 or 4 years ago. I think they sold 1000 of them at $30K per...
THE HEMI being rated at 425 hp by Chrysler wasn't even close. I SEEN a dyno test of a 1967 with headers making 700 horse.
Noooo!!!! NASCAR trim in late 60's was like 625 HP....
Get the facts right, in' '65 the Hemi was banned from NASCAR it reentered in '66 with the rule change of at least 500 cars had to be made for public sale. Also in '71 NASCAR and NHRA added weight rules making Hemi cars noncompetitive thus ending their reign!!!
Reign,? The Torino Talladegas won more races than any other model 1969-70. Ford racked up more wins btwn 63-70 than any other manufacturer. It only reigned in the minds of Mopar fans.
And ftr, the 351C was the most handicapped engine in PS racing history and when the 500 in³ rule was implemented, Bob Glidden smoked the HEMIs in Pro Stock 5 years in a row with his BOSS 429 powered Thunderbirds. (85-89)
@@chadkent1241What was in his Plymouth Arrow?
Chevy was nothing in nascar in the 60s.it was ford and Chrysler period.you need to do your research a little better
That's a truth the GM camp can't seem to swallow. After '62, the fight was always Ford vs Chrysler and look at 1965....when Dodge stepped out, Ford won all but 4 races the entire season. Chevy had ZILCH to compete.
Actually, it was Hudson, then Olds/Pontiac, then Chevy... still Chevy... smattering of Ford/Chrysler here and there...
Chevy was a after thought in 1960s Nascar.
Not only was a big block Chevy down at least 50-75 horse power to a full race HEMI the Chebies had weak bottom ends and blew up alot F'N around with deep skirt FE Fords and HEMIS on the Big Nascar tracks.
You’ll never get rid of it and can always be the engine and Chrysler cars for shoveling. Go back in your corner and weep.
Dodge polara 440 1969 that police had in california could catch any hemi driven car of the time...that's OP
Tom Hoover.
The 427 Ford tunnel port was an equal to the hemi and then came the cammer which was better witness all the dragesters running them.
2:49 The First Hemi was in Citroën 2CV! Maybe First Hemi-V8!?!😎
426 hemi had 425 hp 500 pound feet of torque
Especially chevys
The 426 HEMI was certainly a game changer, but there was one that ruled them all - the Ford 427 SOHC.
There truly was no equal to it.
Then why does Top Fuel use the HEMI? HHmmm? Also fastest production off show room floor in 1968 Hurst Dodge Dart n Cuda, 10.85 1/4 mile!!!!!!!
Also, The short wheel base Chrysler Corporation's Dodge and Plymouth Racing Cars you could buy Straight from the factory! Both of These Dodge's and Plymouth's Short Wheel Base Racing Vehicles were given Their Names By NHRA FAN'S, The Fans Called Chrysler's Wonder Racer, "Funny Cars", because of thei4 short wheel base! By Moving the Rear End Forward The Engine Transfers power more Quickly to the RearEnd; Therefore, Quicker ET'S and more money for the Racer's and Their Team!
Chrysler 426 Hemi heads were not aluminum 5:53
AI sucks. Use your actual voice next time.
Elephants are fast running animals. 😅
Ford's still dominated the 426 hemi in nascar..
fun fact.
The Ford 427 SOHC engine is the only engine effectively banned by NASCAR before even making it to the track (thus, the legendary status).
Wasn't considered a production engine only a handful ever hand built outside the Ford factory. THAT is why it was banned. Why do you think the 500 minimum production car/engine limit to be legal came to be??? And from what I have learned over the years about the "oh so bad but really never was" big bad Ford cammer engine is that people in the know knew the engine wouldn't last a 500 mile race because of the horrendously long timing chain required among other issues. Just repeating research I have done in the past to learn of this beast that in my mind really never existed. Besides Chrysler knew of it and was already prepared to up the anti with an even better Hemi but saw no need to unholster it so it never went into production. Look it up it's the real deal. Also how can you say Ford dominated the 426 in NASCAR when the King Richard won 27 of 42 races in one season ('67) in his mighty Mopar. Ford dominated after GM had pulled out and the King protested Chrysler for not giving him a winged car so he made the switch to Ford for one year when he was in his driving prime. And you don't need to keep deleting my comments I am only giving you the facts...if that butt hurts you blame Ford...
@bultacowally nice post, but ford still won the Nascar points totals from 1963-1969. Dominating the hemi powered cars. The 426 hemi was a PITA to drive on the street and keep running. I'll take a scj 429 or a boss anyway. Hemis are too much of a fanboy motor .. like a bitchy trophy girlfriend. Nice to look at but nothing you want to live with Sunday thru Thursday.
@@reddyfreddycan verify. I have a 5.7 hemi and my buddy has a 5.0 coyote. I can’t even sit and idle without it ticking. Mind you he has an early coyote so I’m faster but I would rather not strew for lifters
Fun fact. Your fact are all wrong.
Boss 429 owns gen 2 most hemi for NASCAR. Drag racing its the other way. Sohc ford motors are legit except they were never homogenized so…… they really don’t count. Speaking from ownership experience. That’s right I actually own these and know what I’m about.
Uh oh.... this will be trouble!!! Now play nice kiddies!!! And KNOW YOUR FACTS before you go blabbering a comment here!!!
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Hey anyone that knows HEMI motors.. Is it simply a design on the top of the pistons that makes it a HEMI?? ..
440 6 pack at 8:50
The first real Hemi engine V8 was a Ford GAA 1100 cubic inches period!
Excellent video. Love John Goodman narration.
First automotive Hemi? Not even close. Engines with hemispherical combustion chambers date from the early 1900s. While some of these were racing engines, both BMW and Jaguar had hemi head engines in production models before Chysler.
Yeah, we saw how well the Jaguar did against the 440 Challenger didnt we?
@@stepanbandera5206 How many times did the Chrysler hemi win Le Mans?
And Alfa Romeo from the 1920s
413 Max Wedge is the only motor that looks more impressive with the long runners than the hemi
Windler Island
It was never built or sold in enough volume to ever be a factor for most hot rodders. We could and did pull 383s and 440s out of New Yorkers and Imperials and stuff them into E and A bodies. Hemis were always too expensive for the average Joe.
Jeep 4 litre straight six.
If you think your modern Hemi is a Hemi, you're a Dumi
It is right down to the hemispherical head chambers, dual spark plugs, and valves opposite across from each other not next to with two rows of rocker arms on each side...if that ain't a Hemi then your name ain't Buckwheat. But it is and you is!!!
both are knock off LS engines anyways
@@UA-camCrisisIntervention yeah...sure...OK....
inB4 427
Do better research. There's some huge problems with quite a few things in this video.
Seems like in recorded history Ford was winning everything from 63 to 69... Hemis were competitor though...😊
Not according to history.
Richard petty won 27 out of 42 NASCAR races in 1967...and it weren't in no Ford...
Robel Hollow
Info was great, but the imagery doesn't match the dialogue. You keep using vintage racing footage that was way before the years you are talking about.
Generally well done but littered with stock footage of design and engineering that has no bearing on this particular engine. Still my favorite engine, though.
B plus
Hold up Pontiac had power cars at that time that can bury a hemi, , 455 did it man.