Slant 6 HEI

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Brown Recluse, dead on target. The first 4 are the bite after 4 hours, then again after 24 hours, then 3rd, just before going into the 1st surgery to fix, Renown Medical Center, Reno. The 4th is the first round after the first surgery, of the incision trying to heal. 5th and last is of the day after the SECOND surgery, 7 days after the first one. 21 days total at Renown, still healing. We don't have a lot of those spiders here, we do have a LOT of Black Widows, this one came in inside a box with a distributor for conversion, got on my clothes, got on my bed when I got ready for sleep, bit me in the middle of the night.

To everybody, if you get something that looks like this does, DON'T HESITATE, GET TO MEDICAL HELP, ASAP.

Anyone ever see what the Australians used to do with the Slant 6? They used to take two Hemi heads and gut the alternate ends off, weld them together to firm a single inline 6 head, and bolt it on. They raced them, ran excellent.
 
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David Ray said:
Brown Recluse, dead on target. The first 4 are the bite after 4 hours, then again after 24 hours, then 3rd, just before going into the 1st surgery to fix, Renown Medical Center, Reno. The 4th is the first round after the first surgery, of the incision trying to heal. 5th and last is of the day after the SECOND surgery, 7 days after the first one. 21 days total at Renown, still healing. We don't have a lot of those spiders here, we do have a LOT of Black Widows, this one came in inside a box with a distributor for conversion, got on my clothes, got on my bed when I got ready for sleep, bit me in the middle of the night.

To everybody, if you get something that looks like this does, DON'T HESITATE, GET TO MEDICAL HELP, ASAP.

Anyone ever see what the Australians used to do with the Slant 6? They used to take two Hemi heads and gut the alternate ends off, weld them together to firm a single inline 6 head, and bolt it on. They raced them, ran excellent.
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Boy I tell you what, that spider injected a LOT of venom in your hand. Their bites are bad and I've seen a few, but that's the absolute worst one I have ever seen. I sure do hope you'll regain full function of your hand. What are the doctors saying?
 
I have almost full function back, still need a couple of months to continue healing. All this happened August 18, 2019, over a year ago. I now get a new left hip in January, finally. Never seems to end.
 
David Ray said:
Anyone ever see what the Australians used to do with the Slant 6? They used to take two Hemi heads and gut the alternate ends off, weld them together to firm a single inline 6 head, and bolt it on. They raced them, ran excellent.
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WHAT Hemi heads? This is something I'e researched IN DEPTH since I HAVE a 56 331 Hemi out in the shop. There is NOT ONE Hemi head that's even CLOSE to the bore and head bolt spacing of the slant. The closest one is the Dodge 241 Hemi. It has bore spacing of 4.187 and the slant is 4". I'm not saying it cannot be or hasn't been done......I just wanna SEE IT.
 
David Ray said:
I have almost full function back, still need a couple of months to continue healing. All this happened August 18, 2019, over a year ago. I now get a new left hip in January, finally. Never seems to end.
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Good LORD. That's taken a LONG time to heal. Good luck with the new hip.
 
David Ray said:
Anyone ever see what the Australians used to do with the Slant 6? They used to take two Hemi heads and gut the alternate ends off, weld them together to firm a single inline 6 head, and bolt it on. They raced them, ran excellent.
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Dave, do you have any documentation of this? If so please post. I have been racing slant sixes for about 40+ years. There has been much discussion, about "hybrid heads", but nothing verified. Granted I don't know everything, and am willing to keep learning. I do know for a fact, this has been done for the Ford and GM inline six.
 
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Dave, do you have any documentation of this? If so please post. I have been racing slant sixes for about 40+ years. There has been much discussion, about "hybrid heads", but nothing verified. Granted I don't know everything, and am willing to keep learning. I do know for a fact, this has been done for the Ford and GM inline six.
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He may be talkin about this. But we all know it ended up being an elaborate hoax.

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Hey! I am an Australian and never heard that one before. Why would we do that as we have the 265 cu ins Hemi six with 3 x 2 barrel webers from the factory that put out 302 hp and 320plus with the bathurst optional cam. We now have people making alloy heads for them and they are very easy to get more horsepower out of them.
 
I had to see the spider bite photos: DAVE's small-body HEI's. A year ago, the top of my foot looked like the 1st photo after a possible insect bite. Started as just a small white pimple, then so bad after 4 days I could barely walk and had to visit an Urgent Care in AL to drain it and get anti-biotics. Looked like photos of brown recluse bites and I had been in VA where they live the week before (toured The Wilderness Battlefield after work), then worked in flip-flops in my CA backyard that weekend, with many Black Widows, but no Recluses (I think). Regardless, I suspect the infection was bacterial since spider-venom is a nerve agent which attacks your whole body. There are nasty microbes sitting on your skin awaiting for a deep puncture. Even a rose thorn can allow entry and cause you to lose a thumb if not treated. Especially bad if it gets into your veins (red streaks).

Oh yeah, discussing HEI pickups, the multi-finger pickups like GM uses (last photo before spider-bite) seem better since it tolerates shifts in concentricity between the reluctor and pickup (averages all the fingers), unlike the single sensor in the in the Mopar distributor. Ningbo's Ready-To-Run HEI distributor ($45 on ebay) uses the same multi-finger pickup, but Ningbo doesn't make one for the slant (Mopar SB, BB, RB only).
 
David Ray said:
We don't have a lot of those spiders here, we do have a LOT of Black Widows, this one came in inside a box with a distributor for conversion, got on my clothes, got on my bed when I got ready for sleep, bit me in the middle of the night."
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Yikes! My wife wondered why I was hollering for her one day...then why I was cussing and jumping up and down. I had been trying to find some slacks in the closet, and saw a black widow...which disappeared into my slacks...no idea where - didn't want to take my eye off of them in case it reappeared - gave up on that and decided to grab all the slacks, throw them on the floor, and jump up and down on the pile, cussing the spider, hoping I got her...she came in as I was peeling them back, one pair at a time until I found her corpse in between pairs about 7 deep in the pile...and that's nothing compared to a brown recluse. Glad your hand is working nearly back to normal!
 
We have Black Widows here, profusely, not so many Brown Recluse. This one came in via a distributor order from Louisiana, and, yes, confirmed Brown Recluse, two days from bite to 1st operation. I took the spider to the operating hospital, 90 miles from my home, all the way to Reno, confirmed Brown Recluse.

There were three choices for me, and the spider bite, lose hand, die, or fight to stay alive. I chose the latter, being a Vietnam vet, combat experience, 5th S/F Group.

The GM reluctor and pickup have problems, in that they are critical on gap between pickup and reluctor, not easily worked out. Simply, MOPAR pickup is also weak, and like the Ford, doesn't like traveling in an arc past the reluctor. So, I build a pivot in the center of the distributor, and make the pickup move concentric to the reluctor. I have done a bunch of them to Direct Connection, and stock MOPAR distributors, and all Fords built with original eccentric pickup setups.
 
TechMavn said:
yikes, a lot of reading here. have seen a HEI made by a Mopar distributor that looks decent, have some follow up to do but is not a name brand:
eBay (ebaydesc.com)

thank you for the thoughts!!
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I have been running the Erhenberg Slant 6 Hi Rev kit for 2 years now. I really like it and cannot believe I am driving the same car! And, the important thing is that you are getting a really good distributor with this kit. So, if you want to convert to GM HEI, or an MSD 6A, you can do that later on down the road.


TechMavn said:
yikes, a lot of reading here. have seen a HEI made by a Mopar distributor that looks decent, have some follow up to do but is not a name brand:
eBay (ebaydesc.com)

thank you for the thoughts!!
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I seriously thought about doing the junkyard HEI on my truck when I did away with the lean burn on its slant 6. But I already had most of the needed parts on hand to go with stock Mopar ecu
 
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