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I have always heard that a hemi was better up top but gave up some power to the wedge at lower rpm. What if you built a large stroke hemi ( 540-572)? How would it compare to a 572 Wedge?



I wish I had a scanner but he's some numbers from my 605 Hemi. 10.4-1 compression, heads are pretty small by most standards 386.2@.700 lift. headers are 2 sizes to small also.Dave

RPM.....HP....Tq
3600 521.8 759.0
3743 544.8 764.4
3830 560.3 768.3
3938 583.8 778.6
4003 600.8 788.2
4111 630.8 805.9
4202 643.5 804.2
4327 667.7 810.4
4421 685.9 814.8
4501 699.7 816.5
4612 712.2 811.1
4702 727.8 813.0
4818 750.8 818.4 Torque peak
4906 760.7 814.4
5029 776.8 811.3
5110 782.6 804.4
5234 802.7 805.5
5302 814.4 806.8
5401 825.4 802.7
5512 840.4 800.8
5634 847.0 789.6
5716 852.4 783.3
5782 852.8 774.6 HP peak
5803 852.2 771.3
5929 844.0 747.6
6025 841.5 733.6
6106 837.1 720.0
6207 827.3 700.1
6315 822.0 683.6
6414 821.5 672.6
6507 815.8 658.5
6612 812.3 645.2