Original hemi dart information

[Charlie A]

Originally Posted by HEMIDARTDAVE

Westcott power in the Comella Dart 2015 according to the Hemi Shootout site.

Great picture!

[marfen]

Cool valve covers. Are the removable sections around the plugs see thru? Great for quick inspection of springs, push rod cups,rockers etc which are so stressed in these engines which see 9500. Would speed up pre-start up lubrication routine as well.

[Frito]

The see through parts are not removable, at least easily. There are 12 screw plus O rings. The racer still removes the whole cover for inspection and valve adjustment, spring replacement, etc.

[jackarnew]

Originally Posted by Charlie A

Great picture!

Check out he removable section on the inner pannel. What a great idea to get at hedder bolts when working . Wish I had thought of it as hedders and there bolts were a bitch to get to when replacing a head or whole engine. Bet this cuts off a lot of time in the process

[Liteweight]

Originally Posted by Charlie A

Great picture!

hey Frito

Got question for you.
Before the SS/AH guys fire up they're cars first thing of the day, are they pulling the covers & lubing the valve train before they fire them up?

I see Chuck has an accumulator. Are all the guys using this for pre lubing the valve train before fire up? Or, just for bearing oiling?

This is where I put mine



liteweight

[Liteweight]

You know yur in good hands when Frito's in the holeeeeee cheet seat.



liteweight

[marfen]

Allyn Lee showed me how to make monster valve spring pressure hemi valvetrain live when I had him build an engine years ago.
-engine assembly lube on the pushrod cups, rocker rollers where they contact the spring retainers.
-engine oil sprayed on the valve springs, he said they will get damn hot on initial fire up before the windage finally gets there too cool them...that intial heat kills them.
-off course get the drill out to prime the system.
-run lash
No idea what they do now but I know it will be a lot of work and skinned knuckles. Speaking of access holes, remember the holes in the firewall for accessing bellhousing bolts in the SS/A cars we saw way back?

[HEMIDARTDAVE]

Steve Stasko- you have a PM