Worlds crustiest HEMI build

Any chance this thing ever runs again?

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Heads have been sitting around gathering surface rust, the humidity here has been ridiculous lately. The will get a trip through the blast cabinet and spray wash cabinet before any machine work begins
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That head doesn’t look too bad. Is that crusty one from your earlier pics?
 
I'm in.

I'm looking at buying a 392 hemi machined package with weiand 2x4 intake.
I figure why not.

Thank you for sharing with us.
 
i've got a couple early hemi's , this is a 54 331 with twin inline fours i'm putting together . and my last buy was this donovan 417 block with a crower billet 4.5 crank n 7.1 alloy rods . not stealing your build thread just showing the difference between the two early hemi blocks . but this baby early chrysler hemi is just 301 , started life as a poly head , now with 55 331 hemi heads and a 6-71 weind old school setup .

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I rebuilt a '56 block that sat in a manure pile from 1957 until 2003-ish. The oil pan was rusted thru all the way to the pan rail
 
kowalski440 said:
Any idea why a 1 yr old motor ended up like that (pulled and in a manure pile) so soon?
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Somebody crashed the car into a barnyard, and the motor got flung out of the car into the manure pile. The wrecker driver never saw it, the driver was killed in the wreck and for some reason didn't want his motor back, the farmer was gonna let it lay there until he needed it for an irrigation pump, and soon it got completely covered over with cow patties. Farmers kids sold the place when the old man died, and @Krooser works for the land development company that was building the massive new housing development. He saw one valve cover sticking up with a rotted plug wire going down in a hole and instantly knew what it was. By 2003, Gorbal Warming had petrified all of the cow manure, so he chipped it away and loaded up the 331 Hemi before the environmental people documented the motor as an ancient artifact, and commissioned a study on the motor as it was carefully dug out with knitting needles and tooth brushes! He saved his company a tremendous amount of money by quickly removing the poo crusted old motor, and got promoted to VP of Pre Environmental Assessment Division of the company! So the story goes, anyway! :D:p
 
kowalski440 said:
Any idea why a 1 yr old motor ended up like that (pulled and in a manure pile) so soon?
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The farmers Dad wrecked the car...they saved the engine and some bumpers and sheet metal.

Over the years the 2x4 setup and the adjustable rockers were salvaged and the rest of the parts sat there rusting.

When I got it all the parts were on top of the manure pile turned top soil that remained after the Grandfather stopped milking cows in the 50's.

That block is what I used in my blown Hemi I put in my F100
 
JDMopar said:
Somebody crashed the car into a barnyard, and the motor got flung out of the car into the manure pile. The wrecker driver never saw it, the driver was killed in the wreck and for some reason didn't want his motor back, the farmer was gonna let it lay there until he needed it for an irrigation pump, and soon it got completely covered over with cow patties. Farmers kids sold the place when the old man died, and @Krooser works for the land development company that was building the massive new housing development. He saw one valve cover sticking up with a rotted plug wire going down in a hole and instantly knew what it was. By 2003, Gorbal Warming had petrified all of the cow manure, so he chipped it away and loaded up the 331 Hemi before the environmental people documented the motor as an ancient artifact, and commissioned a study on the motor as it was carefully dug out with knitting needles and tooth brushes! He saved his company a tremendous amount of money by quickly removing the poo crusted old motor, and got promoted to VP of Pre Environmental Assessment Division of the company! So the story goes, anyway! :D:p
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cow patties in deed
 
JDMopar said:
Somebody crashed the car into a barnyard, and the motor got flung out of the car into the manure pile. The wrecker driver never saw it, the driver was killed in the wreck and for some reason didn't want his motor back, the farmer was gonna let it lay there until he needed it for an irrigation pump, and soon it got completely covered over with cow patties. Farmers kids sold the place when the old man died, and @Krooser works for the land development company that was building the massive new housing development. He saw one valve cover sticking up with a rotted plug wire going down in a hole and instantly knew what it was. By 2003, Gorbal Warming had petrified all of the cow manure, so he chipped it away and loaded up the 331 Hemi before the environmental people documented the motor as an ancient artifact, and commissioned a study on the motor as it was carefully dug out with knitting needles and tooth brushes! He saved his company a tremendous amount of money by quickly removing the poo crusted old motor, and got promoted to VP of Pre Environmental Assessment Division of the company! So the story goes, anyway! :D:p
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That's funny. I remember seeing Hemi's running irrigation pumps in Kansas back in the '80s.

Should I ask if anyone remembers the car museum in central Kansas that had wing cars? You could see it from I70?

Nah, don't wanna run this thread off topic.
 
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