30 Oct 11 18:34, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:

 RW>> TW> Think that could be a reason for the Performance advantage??

 RW>> What performance advantage? Even a 5L Mustang can beat their Hemi
 RW>> powered Challanger...hands down. Factory Mustangs and Camaros run in
 RW>> the high to low 13s at the dragstrip, Challengers run in the mid to
 RW>> high 14s...

 TW> I was thinking of the Origional Hemi. Since then the other style
 TW> engines have made advances and the Hemi has not.

Even during the run of the older Hemi, the wedges could beat it with a 25
cubic inch higher displacement and get better fuel economy as well (not
by much, but 12mpg is better than 10mpg). Which is why the hemi died the
death that it did. The first gas shortage was only a year away and yet
the 455 GM, 460 Ford and the Chrysler 440 stuck around for about 10
years after the hemi was long gone...Of those, the only one still with us
is the 454 Chevy, which has grown to 502...


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