BB Mopar head design ??

I say while we're at it....Here's a GREAT one to consider, if your "trying" to get in the minds of a MOPAR engineer......

So its the years of OUR famous "Hemi" the 426.......Your designing this from the big wigs saying we want a "lengend"....... the slant 6 crew hears this, so they on their lunch break begin looking atthe slant 6 and going OK WTH? can WE do? NOTHING! Why? Mopar didn't pay for it, BUT taken the info we ALL have.....Transfer it from the COMPLETED 426 V-8, from a Wedge, to a Hemi, and make a 226 Slant 6 WEDGE to a 225 Slant 6 HEMI? WHY?

No call for itm, because we already had the 426, for one, and for 2, they were making the 245 and the 265 in Aussie, BOTH Hemi's (or so they say) BUT, take the Hemispherical combustion chamber, and try to fit that bastard in a 6 cylinder head, or better yet the 225 SLANT 6 head! No less, that be such a nightmare, the angles of the intake valve to the angles of the exhaust valve would be almost ridiculous in the 245 or 265 orientation....THEY could have, done this the "Ball-Stud" way but, really? Then say you got the head to work, WITHOUT modifying the block (say, you just haven't gotten that far yet) SO, then you get to the block....... WITH Ball Stud type set up for a Hemi head, in a slant 6 block, for 6 cylinders, then you got all the rod passages to make work for the push rod to move as needed by the cam.....You get this, BUT HEAVY machine work on that block. At this point, from the drawing board, to the maxchine shop to reality, how many man hours might you *THINK* a task such as that took? REALLY you don't say? Granted, they worked day and night A LOT OF UNPAID nights on the 426, to get that thing to be what it is.....today!

Like Rumble said, back then, what '66? '67? the 440 was the ****. ONLY SECOND to the 426 HEMI! In STOCK form! Granted, the smallest, 383, for say '67, would do the same as the 440, BUT at a MUCH higher RPM. and that for a 383 back then, was pushing that little thing to the limit! The 426 HEMI, on the other hand, was doing it without breaking a sweat. As the 440 was to be the biggest of the "crew" for Mopar but wasn't an easy breather, just Rumble said, they were to busy working their asses off on that 426 Hemi that was a promised performer, and to this day, is a true legend! In its own time!

That motor was doing things not normally seen for its time 50 years ago......Sadly, what engine do we have today thats a legend such as the 426 Hemi or for that matter the 440 Wedge? (I GOT a 383) in my truck, and let me tell ya, If I had to pull it that something happen a piston rod snapped and went through the block, I'd be hunting a 440, WHY? well thats an easy one! There everywhere......This is, if I had the cash in hand to buy another Mopar big block. as I can get a small block 360 just as fast for a bunch less money, BUT lets just say, I just had to keep the block a big block Mopar more specifically a B block 383 (RB 383's are rare!), 440 RB would be the next BEST thing, stock heads an all! Tried and true proven designs, and old as dirt still rompin rubber to the road and leaving a nice blue trail....... gotta be something to be said for that!

DON'T try to beat down the 40 plus years ago, engineers that were our age then, with nothing like we have today for what they did........ WHAT THEY DID.. they DID WELL for the time!