Re: 426 Hemi six pack manifold
[Re: 540challenger]
#65610
05/29/08 10:53 AM
05/29/08 10:53 AM
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S.E. Michigan
ZIPPY
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Not yet!
MP didn't come up with the idea all on their own, it was actually Tom Hoover's idea from way back when, but the current MP regime decided it would be a good idea to run with. Development actually started in Hoover's group in the '60s, prints and so forth already existed.
Far as I know, the only ones made in the last couple years have been development prototypes made from plastic. They have been run, and MP was happy enough with the results to want to produce the part. Development is basically all done.
Getting the manifold manufactured is taking longer than expected, though. MP has been a little bit rough on their 6 pack manifold supplier lately, lumping great heaping globs of new product work on them and asking for all of it yesterday...so for now we're going to have to be patient and wait for the manufacturing end to catch up.
I've seen one of the plastic ones (painted to appear aluminum) on a show engine. It quite frankly looks cooler than (self censored)!!! As soon as they're in production I will make a post in the new product area. Until then, keep your fingers crossed.
Rich H.
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Re: 426 Hemi six pack manifold
[Re: ZIPPY]
#65611
05/29/08 01:01 PM
05/29/08 01:01 PM
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Illinois
CRE2004
super gas
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super gas
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Not yet!
I've seen one of the plastic ones (painted to appear aluminum) on a show engine. It quite frankly looks cooler than (self censored)!!! As soon as they're in production I will make a post in the new product area. Until then, keep your fingers crossed.
It was on the show engine at the NHRA nats in Indy a year or two ago. Excellent idea, needs to be done...... I have a few customers that seem to recall some 440 six pack hemis from their day 
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Re: 426 Hemi six pack manifold
[Re: 71 Six Pack]
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05/30/08 10:18 AM
05/30/08 10:18 AM
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LENOX , MI
KMPX2
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I might be wrong on this, but I thought a couple of the Dayclona cars had Six Pack manifold equipped Hemi's, of the 472ci variety. Can anyone verify this? Mike at Dayclona perhaps.
Joe
If IIRC he was custom making his own intakes
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Re: 426 Hemi six pack manifold
[Re: ZIPPY]
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05/30/08 10:22 AM
05/30/08 10:22 AM
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Illinois
CRE2004
super gas
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I have a few customers that seem to recall some 440 six pack hemis from their day
Oh yeah, my brother's uncle's 2nd cousin had a Plymouth Dart with a 383 Hemi 6pack with a factory Muncie Rock Crusher 4 speed that used to belong to Richard Petty, but Chrysler goofed up and painted it the wrong color...orange not blue, that's why Petty sold it to him, etc etc 
The picture above shows one of the prototype manifolds.
It's ready to rock as far as MP is concerned.
Your brother's uncle's 2nd cousin was mistaken as that combo was only available to black ops secret police as "the Interceptor Package".... Everything back in the day was a "police interceptor"
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Re: 426 Hemi six pack manifold
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05/30/08 10:51 AM
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Somewhere near Palm Springs
ConvertiBee
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Actually, at most any little local car show, some tool will walk up to you and say "Yeah... my brother used to own a car just like that years ago. It had a 427 Sixpack Hemi in it". And... "We used to race Bumblebees all the time". So... it MUST be true! 
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Re: 426 Hemi six pack manifold
[Re: ZIPPY]
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05/30/08 12:52 PM
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Western New York
sixpackbee
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I've actually had the pleasure of seeing one of the Hoover original ones from back in the day. Pretty crude looking thing but cool none the less.
1959 Bugeye Sprite
1967 Charger Black L code
1967 Coronet R/T Convert Green 440 auto bought from original owner
1968 Charger R/T Bronze 440 4 spd console AM/FM
1969 Super Bee WM21H B5 A40 D21 N96
1969 Barracuda Formula S 340 Convert pilot car
1969 Hemi Road Runner RM23J D32 Omaha orange 4.10 Dana N96 N85
1970 Super Bee WM23N FE5 V1X 3.91 axle package, N96
1970 Road Runner RM21N B3 V1X D13
1971 MG Midget
1971 Road Runner RM23H GW3, A57
1972 Road Runner RM23P FY1, D21
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Re: 426 Hemi six pack manifold
[Re: sixpackbee]
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06/04/08 09:41 PM
06/04/08 09:41 PM
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San Diego CA
Bruce K Bridges
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This one is for a 6.1 based 426...
not quite the same animal.
I sell fuel injection, but Ill still rebuild your carb if I have to...
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