OH...HEMI gurus?!

[TheRev]

So....i'm in this towing yard,looking to buy a couple of cars from this guy.
The conversation goes on and he says"know anyone who wants a Hemi?......... HUH?
He pulls back a tarp and low and behold...........there's a Hemi........sorta! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif...........
....it's mounted to a trailer and runs a big ars generator!!
So here's the question.......it says "Chrysler-Industrial"
on the valve covers!?
I'ts a Hemi,but WTF motor is it?
As you know i'm a Ford guy......... so be kind! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[TheRev]

YA gotta be joking me!!
nobody knows?!

[DeS]

Chrysler made industrial engines based on Chrysler's car engines as well as Chrysler Marine engines. Those are ALMOST same engines (same block, same crank) but different compression ratios, different rotation directions, etc. depending use, different kind of engine. But if you are lucky you can find samekind of engine what is used in cars. I'll think that those industrial engines are used in firepumps, generators and somekind of alarmsiren horns

[RileyRacing]

IDK if the industrial ones did, but some marine engines were reverse rotation, so maybe watch out for that too... I'd get it, if anything just to fix it up and put it in my living room, backlit, on a red velvet pillow, just to bow to it every morning! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Jay

[loudpedal]

If it's a clock-wise engine...Get it and run it!!

Mine's a marine Hemi... and it works great!

Convert to a chain drive cam & use a car camshaft. You may run into water pump issues. I used a remote water pump on mine to solve that.

LP

[geno_86ed]

Look for a couple small bumps on the valve covers that push out from the inside of the valve covers. Some of the industrial and later Hemi engines have an adjustable rocker arm set up on them, and they are the cats ass... at least that is what I hear. The bumps indicate it is adjustable.

Hey its a Hemi, buy it up if the price is right, just to at least hang the heads and valve covers in your garage.

Maybe Loudpedal will divulge his secret super slick alternator setup to ya. I eye fucked it for a while in Vegas and still couldn't figure out all the particulars, but my suspision of it being a marine was correct. It is definately a super slick set up.

Go to the local book store and see if they have this book,The Complete Chrysler Hemi Engine Manual, and look through it, a good source of info for old hemis.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1878772015/qid=1089257325/sr=1-9/ref=sr_1_9/102-6136550-1728156?v=glance&s=books

Geno

[TheRev]

Thanx for the responses guy's .........i was starting to worry that no one knew what it was! http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif

[331caddy]

my buddy is running an industrial hemi in his deuce coupe it was from a train snow plow the thing runs like a raped ape

just my thoughts on the deal
tom

['Flyin' Dutchman']

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