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NHRA killed the hemi in pro stock by assigning it a very uncompetitive weight break..

so with the swipe of a pen the 426 hemi was dead in pro stock...after several years of trying..all further development on the PS hemi was stopped..



Not completely true. NHRA went to 500ci for everyone and the Hemi just could not compete with the wedges. Jeff Wick kept trying until the late '90's. Even Bob Glidden had to give up on the Shotgun motor.




NHRA instituted the ps weight breaks in 1972...chrysler pulled the plug on the hemi a couple years later....nhra went to 500 inch motors in 1982...

yes a few people continue to run the hemi...but once the factory money stopped...no one was doing any R&D...

a SS/HA hemi today turns over 9000 rpm with the new valvetrain that has been developed..

Tony

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