$50 million to produce...

[polyjohn]

The Mopar small block engine cost $50 million to produce in the mid fifties!
That's over seventy years ago, so who knows what that cost would be today?

So it worked out OK in the end as over 5 million were cast.
But they still got the pushrod angle wrong for the LA series, oh dear...

That would have been OK if they had developed the semi-hemi head.
But no they got lazy and fitted a 273 on top in 1964.

Its a bit like fitting 383 heads onto 440 engines, just about got away with it...

 

[RustyRatRod]

The Mopar small block engine cost $50 million to produce!
That's over sixty years ago, so who know what that would be today?

So it worked out OK in the end as over 5 million were cast.
But they still got the pushrod angle wrong for the LA series...

From 1964, that's about 509 million today. lol

 

[mbaird]

Computer aided drafting and modern production processes would make it less expensive to produce today .

 

[Oldmanmopar]

Wonder how much they spent to tease us with this?

 

[polyjohn]

If it was 1964 they would have sorted the lifter to pushrod angle.
Its was mid 50's and the block was designed for the Poly engines.

The so called LA LIGHTWEIGHT block was only slightly altered for the 1964 273.
Once you spend 50 million you can't do it again, so every LA block has pushrod mis-alignment ever since...

 

[polyjohn]

Holy grail Big Block Mopar 440 heads are here in the UK.
Mother Mopar never went down that road, in 1969/70.
The fuel crisis was looming and nothing trick got built in the 70's...

Ovalport intakes and D-port exhausts, cast for Nascar and available on passenger cars!

Nope it never happened like the ballstud hemi...

 

[A56]

Wonder how much they spent to tease us with this?

Not a whole lot when you consider all they did was shove an RB 440 Chrysler motor into an existing A body. Still 8 3/4 albeit 489 with 3:55 gears with drum brakes on all 4 corners and auto. console.

 

[Bewy]

Chrys wasn't worried about the prod angle for a production engine......because it wasn't an issue to lose sleep over.

 

[dowboy1970]

Holy grail Big Block Mopar 440 heads are here in the UK.
Mother Mopar never went down that road, in 1969/70.
The fuel crisis was looming and nothing trick got built in the 70's...

Ovalport intakes and D-port exhausts, cast for Nascar and available on passenger cars!

Nope it never happened like the ballstud hemi...

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[mygasser]

This picture is a joke!

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