Good Read

[Darter6]

Three good articles in the Feb 2014 issue of Mopar Action about Slant Sixes. The 71 Duster I've seen before but the 64 altered B body is new to me.Check it out.

 

[Bill Dedman]

Three good articles in the Feb 2014 issue of Mopar Action about Slant Sixes. The 71 Duster I've seen before but the 64 altered B body is new to me.Check it out.

I saw the Duster article (Nitti) and the '64 Altered article. Thanks!

What was the third article? Couldn't find it...:glasses7:

 

[Valleyant]

I saw the Duster article (Nitti) and the '64 Altered article. Thanks!

What was the third article? Couldn't find it...:glasses7:

Bill,
I don't have the magazine handy but IIRC it is the article that precedes the supercharged Duster article...it speaks of the Slant 6 in general. Wow, its feast or famine when it comes to slant 6 topics.

 

[Darter6]

Yep, What Valleyant said. First page before the car stories.

 

[Bill Dedman]

Bill,
I don't have the magazine handy but IIRC it is the article that precedes the supercharged Duster article...it speaks of the Slant 6 in general. Wow, its feast or famine when it comes to slant 6 topics.

Okay, I'll look there. Thanks!!

 

[Bill Dedman]

Yep, What Valleyant said. First page before the car stories.

Thanks for the info!!! Articles about slant sixes are far and few between. Kudos to Ehrenberg for this material. Let's let him know we appreciate them.

I'd like to see a magazine article about Ryan Peterson's '66 Valiant, a giant-killer if there ever was one... It's fast beyond belief, and Tom Wolfe's similar 120+ mph Dart would also be really interesting...

Those two cars were my inspiration for building a turbocharged slant six, (the one in my avatar,) because they have NO high-tech parts on them... just a single Holley 4-bbl on an aftermarket intake manifold, a homemade header, and stock-type Mopar ignition... flat-tappet cams with stock pushrods and rockers and basic valve springs. Ryan's car goes 127mph in the quarter with a power-eating, 727 transmission... would probably go 130 with a 904.

These are stock-stroke 225's with a ported head and slightly larger valves... that's all. Not a really-expensive engine to build.

Estimates rate both of them at 500 horsepower, give or take... Tom's car, a 70 Dart, weighs 3,300 pounds and ran virtually 11-flat, into a 15mph headwind.

That would be good performance for a "built," normally-aspirated V8... from a /6.

I think either car would make for an interesting article in a Mopar magazine...

 

[Bill Dedman]

Yep, What Valleyant said. First page before the car stories.

Got it!! Thanks!!!:blob: