Are you sure this is a hemi car? It looks like a AAR CUDA, which in race trim ran a destroked 340 to get a displacement of around 5liters. AAR cars were great race cars, and as seen here, can hold their own with other cars. The hemi cars were generally too heavy up front for this type of driving. If this is in fact a hemi car, the suspension has been set up By a god, and the driver is exceptionally skilled
Its a Racing Hemi, 340's especially the racing ones in AAR trim where had more RPM. Once modified the Hemi cars would handle very well. And if you could put some aluminum heads on the HEMI it frees up a lot of weight.
+Boredout454 Would you believe the 392 Hemi heads bolt on to the 340 block, so, in theory you could create a hemi headed small block. I like the idea of an aluminum head late model Hemi better for this car, especially for the Nordschleife where acceleration due to torque is preferable to acceleration due to very high revs in a heavier car such as this one. If you look carefully at the tires on the car, you'll see some giants on all four corners, so be assured that the car is "set up". And if that Hemi is tuned properly, it should easily develop over 600 HP and 600 lbs-ft of torque. At a race weight under 3600 lbs, that thing would be a rocket ship, and it is!
@Crimson Idol, Sorry just came back to this video and only just saw your post. The old 392 heads from the 50 & 60's will bolt right on the 340 engine. Chrysler saved themselves a huge bundle by lightening up the old 392 style motor when they decided to build a new smallblock, so they started with the existing 392 design and engineered weight out without sacrificing strength, and got it down to 538 pounds complete. How about that? I think the new 5.7L series could make for a terrific swap of a complete engine. Just look at all the power adders available already. But to answer your question, No, I didn't mean these new style hemi heads onto a 340. All the dimensions are wrong.
Idiot in yellow ducktail Porsche blocking track. Cuda driver showed great restraint and patience dispatching Porsches here, as well as considerable driving skill.
Stock pre-1973 American cars generally cannot corner. But now that 50% or more of all running pre-1973 US cars are restomodded with modern suspension and chassis enforcement etc, many of them can indeed corner. Especially those build for racing. And I suspect that the racing cars from back then could corner decently because they were radically different from their stock cousins.
'cause they can't, this cuda probably has a heavily modfied suspention and a massive wheight reduction to handle the corners of a real race track, not the boring ovals, classic american cars are beautiful but have shitty engeniering in averything thats not the engine, and don't get me wrong, i love american cars but they will never perform like a ferrari 250 gto, alfa romeo giulia, skyline hakosuka, mercedes 300 slr, jaguar, and etc... shelbys are an exeption (like some others...), they are great sports cars, not boats made for fat americans that can't use a manual transmission
+Boredout454 They existed as you know, but we agree that the American factories never made them available in these cars. Plenty are available now for retrofitting.
5 speeds for production use in US muscle cars did not exist. Any such gearbox was a race/ specialty item. I know of no production gearbox back then that would have handled the torque/ HP. My 70 RR had a 440-6 and so called "hemi" gearbox, 18 spline input pinion
Wow, this Cuda is a beast, swallowing many of the period race cars. Despite the mockery of American cars. Great driving and ruling horsepower.
Der Plymouth, was für ein kraftvolles Monster. Danke!
Schönes Video!
Was für ein Sound! Well done...
Loved it! It looked exciting in the rain. I think it likes turning left more than right.
More Videos from this Plymouth HEMI Cuda!
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Sehr kraftvolle Maschine. Historischer Motorsport ist schon eine tolle Sache...
Sounds great!
Faszinierend. Schönes Video!
Awwwwwww, look at the 'Cuda passing all the little Porschey-poos. They're so cute! 😂
He's catching and passing everything in site. I would like to see the Oly Dodge do the same someday. Same drive train just different chassis...
11:15 Best moment ! That was awesome
And again at 15:30.
I'm impressed at how hard he's pushing this thing, and just how well it sticks, considering it's weight.
Theres a blog where the team even marveled at how they were able to get the weight distribution so well balanced
I mean Cuda's really weren't that heavy maybe around 3200 lbs, at least with a small block,
Are you sure this is a hemi car? It looks like a AAR CUDA, which in race trim ran a destroked 340 to get a displacement of around 5liters. AAR cars were great race cars, and as seen here, can hold their own with other cars. The hemi cars were generally too heavy up front for this type of driving. If this is in fact a hemi car, the suspension has been set up
By a god, and the driver is exceptionally skilled
Its a Racing Hemi, 340's especially the racing ones in AAR trim where had more RPM. Once modified the Hemi cars would handle very well. And if you could put some aluminum heads on the HEMI it frees up a lot of weight.
+Boredout454 Would you believe the 392 Hemi heads bolt on to the 340 block, so, in theory you could create a hemi headed small block. I like the idea of an aluminum head late model Hemi better for this car, especially for the Nordschleife where acceleration due to torque is preferable to acceleration due to very high revs in a heavier car such as this one. If you look carefully at the tires on the car, you'll see some giants on all four corners, so be assured that the car is "set up". And if that Hemi is tuned properly, it should easily develop over 600 HP and 600 lbs-ft of torque. At a race weight under 3600 lbs, that thing would be a rocket ship, and it is!
@Crimson Idol, Sorry just came back to this video and only just saw your post. The old 392 heads from the 50 & 60's will bolt right on the 340 engine. Chrysler saved themselves a huge bundle by lightening up the old 392 style motor when they decided to build a new smallblock, so they started with the existing 392 design and engineered weight out without sacrificing strength, and got it down to 538 pounds complete. How about that? I think the new 5.7L series could make for a terrific swap of a complete engine. Just look at all the power adders available already. But to answer your question, No, I didn't mean these new style hemi heads onto a 340. All the dimensions are wrong.
Wat`n Gerät!!!! Und dann noch bei dem Wetter! Huiii...
did Henri Chemin sign the dash?
which axle ratio was used here??
9:45 ~___^ just ONE of several NIIIICE saves !!
Idiot in yellow ducktail Porsche blocking track.
Cuda driver showed great restraint and patience dispatching Porsches here, as well as considerable driving skill.
How on earth is it able to take the corners at those kinds of speeds??
+Luke vanDillen VERY WIDE TIRES!
+Luke vanDillen How on earth are those other cars able to keep up with him on the straights?
+Chris Daniels Probably aftermarket parts and turbo chargers. And they catch up in the corners.
I would hope so considering his car is 50 years older than theirs. And they still can't catch it.
American Muscle that was some skill driving right driving right car
Oops, thought he was going to goof up at 9:48. :-)
good old American mopar power. and people say american cars cant corner haha
+brandon6pk old, not racing american cars*
Stock pre-1973 American cars generally cannot corner. But now that 50% or more of all running pre-1973 US cars are restomodded with modern suspension and chassis enforcement etc, many of them can indeed corner. Especially those build for racing. And I suspect that the racing cars from back then could corner decently because they were radically different from their stock cousins.
'cause they can't, this cuda probably has a heavily modfied suspention and a massive wheight reduction to handle the corners of a real race track, not the boring ovals, classic american cars are beautiful but have shitty engeniering in averything thats not the engine, and don't get me wrong, i love american cars but they will never perform like a ferrari 250 gto, alfa romeo giulia, skyline hakosuka, mercedes 300 slr, jaguar, and etc... shelbys are an exeption (like some others...), they are great sports cars, not boats made for fat americans that can't use a manual transmission
Genial! pas a dire elle envoie cette hemi. et quel coup de volant!!
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The Nordschleife, with four gears no less..
Did these not come with five-speeds, not even in race trim?
Nope 4 speeds only, no such thing as 5 speeds back in the 60's and early 70's
+Boredout454 They existed as you know, but we agree that the American factories never made them available in these cars. Plenty are available now for retrofitting.
5 speeds for production use in US muscle cars did not exist. Any such gearbox was a race/ specialty item. I know of no production gearbox back then that would have handled the torque/ HP. My 70 RR had a 440-6 and so called "hemi" gearbox, 18 spline input pinion
and it was raining... lol
14:40 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
Europe, meet America.
Washington State license plate woohoo!
schade...das dauerhafte pfeifen macht es unmöglich sich das video mit ton anzusehen! das schmerzt im ohr.
Boo it's heavy, in a straight line there's no one can hold up but in a curvy coming the lightweighters back.
If you watch 1970 SCCA trans am you would be surprised how well they handle