HEMI'S ....SS/AH question ?

[bill dedman]

X-TECH MAN said, "Nobody said these were "WEDGE" blocks being modified and used..."

No, nobody said that, but since there were never EVER any short deck (factory) Hemi blocks made, and you contend that these alleged engines have "APPROX. 1" shorter decks," the only way they could exist is if they started out as wedge (383/400) blocks, unless somebody ran a batch of castings with 383/400 deck measurements and a Hemi top deck. I seriously doubt that that ever happened.

Am I missing something here? Enlighten me........ please.

I don't think it's fair to the people who run Hemis in S/S to have this kind of innuendo floating around without some basis in fact. So, even though you have said that you don't want to say any more about this, I think you owe it to the people involved to at least explain how such a thing would be possible.
Forget the titanium cranks and relocated rocker arms for the moment and focus on the blocks that are being used. If they are, in fact, Hemi blocks, they already HAVE exhaust pushrod clearance, so there would be no reason to move the rocker stands. That makes NO sense to me..

How do you get a "B" engine to have a deck approximately 1" shorter than the oem part? Using a 383/400 block is the only way I can imagine that it would be possible.

Curious minds want to know... and, as an "ex-tech man," myself, so do ~I~.... I'll bet Jared Jordan would like to know, too...

How 'bout it????


Bill