Glad you corrected me, never afraid to be wrong especially when I find myself making assumptions that
obviously may not be true.

D***** was the last name of the engineer until '08-ish.

The name of the engineer who you spoke with, even an initial and how many
characters in the name would help me a little. But I'd understand if that info is confidential.

Have a nice holiday!

L*******

He was involved in the NASCAR program pretty heavy but Motorsports for quite a while.

Thanks, nobody I'm familiar with then... Dave Daun*** was the only one from the circle
track camp I associated with.

In the beginning of my time, pre bk, that type of activity was split
with a few dedicated staff in cl, + several srt frec staff also had specific
Focused activity. It all changed later.

Ok J_Body, ''when they is gone they is gone'' has happened!

Seems to be a World shortage of MP hemi heads now and even though 'they is POO' they is all gone...

Think they should have made some more (100 or 1000) and machined them a little better and charged a smidgeon more?

As my dad always said ''if a job's worth doing, its worth doing well'', God rest his tortured Soul.

Whereas my neighbore was the opposite, he used to bodge everything and do it real quick with no finesse (he's dead too).

So the moral of the story is... being a bodger or doing stuff right is OK, whatever you are happy with... (you still end up dead)

Sort of like - “whomever dies with the most toys - is still dead”.

Sounds like Donato to me. I talked to him about the DP Challenger and treated my questions like I was a step child. (For reference, the questions were about the DP Hemi intake being an EFI version of the TALL carb manifold, and of a Body-in-White DP Challenger). If he was in the ocean, I'd throw him a concrete life preserver. I last saw him hanging out with Jim Hale in Ennis many years back. I kept walking.

We race four NSS Hemi cars, two of them have these so called 'junk' MP Heads on them.
Both run very well, no issue. In fact the last NSS event we raced we ran the Hemi Dart with those 'junk' heads on, and it went 5 rounds running 9.60s. Perhaps we should take them off and get rid of them. We've been racing Hemis for close to 50 years, and some how t hat got by us.....

I had collected several pairs of the old 110-M heads including one NOS,
But sold them all (except one good used pair) to a local machine shop,
Turned around and spent the proceeds from that sale new sheet metal for my gtx.

I still have the good used pair, so if anyone needs them really super badly or whatever, give me a shout.
If I could get a halfway decent price for them I’d gladly replace them with the newer MP heads.

I need one head, too bad you sold them, my luck

Everyone needs a spare hemi head, its the nature of the BEAST!

I'm sure we can all get together and sort out a deal, then we can all 'sleep soundly' before we 'pop our clogs'...

Love the quote STEVE!

Old age and treachery 'TRUMPS' youth and etc...

ps I know what you mean about the 'step-child' thing...

At what cubic inch?

A ‘junk’ Hemi head starts where the wedge head is gasping

In our cars we have one 528, two 472 inchers (that Dart is a 472) , and, me, the dinosaur races a 426. Cause I'm old, it's all old school parts that I've had for years. Racer Brown cam, NASCAR rods, TRW pistons, cross ram, "J" converter. Shift it at 6500, runs high tens low elevens. I don't have to work on it, just change oil and set valves from time to time. Getting close to 70 now, don't want maintenance. Suits me fine.Hardly ever take the hood off of it. Consistent as a clock. This one has old iron heads. I've owned the car since March of 1969, 52 years now.

This one is a 528, Stage V heads, Stage V intake with two AVS. Wins a lot of races. Goes 9.30s at 144

9.85 on the window and run some 9:30’s. Sandbagger!,

This one is an original Hemi Road Runner that we (Bud's) have had since the mid seventies. It's a 472, those MP heads no one on this board seems to like, two Carter AFBs on a Stage V intake. This one goes 10.30-s, 10.60s, but we slow it down because it doesn't have a cage and we don't want to cut on this one. We also have a couple of wedge cars between Ronnie, his kids, and me and my kids. You guys do too much whining and complaining on this board. Way too much. Not to ruffle any feathers, but if a lot of guys on this board would spend more time working and learning rather than bitching and whining, they'd be better off.

We have sandbagged, maybe, but in that shot it ran 9.85 apparently. Winning the Keystone Nostalgia Nationals last September it went 9.34 on the winning pass.

Well 9.60's for us is still wedge territory in our drag cars, in fact we should be in the 9.40's this year with our wheezing non-breathing wedge heads heads....But the big lung in my Hemi street car was stuck in the 9.89 range...Which is ok for a street car, but not ok for a 605 Hemi..And I still worry about the vale train on the Hemi. ..We will run it a little this year and see. Got Holley Sniper 4500 on it now, so no excuses.

Do you Hemi guys have a way to check the springs while on the heads?

Just pulling your chain. Nice package.



By the way, what head are you actually running ?

Cast iron original, cast MP replacement, early aluminum MP, later MP/Edelbrock std. valve or later large valve.

I can’t seem to keep them straight.

I go by the original Chrysler p/n.

Lol....he said that in writing...