doing a ring/bearing replacement, reassembling as per the manual and it shows the conrod/shells on our one are installed the wrong way, ie the tangs and cam squirters are on the wrong side , can anyone advise!
Let me know your email addie. I have a friend who had one (might not have been a 63) he might be able to help.
cuda.340,
Mar 5, 2:21pm
if it's wrong the squirters will be facing the oil pan. the correct way always has the holes facing upwards.
cuda.340,
Mar 5, 6:27pm
no it's a wedge. if it's the hot wedge of it's time it might have the cross ram manifold, as in carbs over the rocker covers. the ports aren't big back in thier day so the long intakes really got the velocity going. the hemi(426) was a few years later.
cuda.340,
Mar 5, 7:29pm
you probably were thinking of a 392 or maybe the 313 polyhemi.
suburbanite100,
Mar 5, 8:57pm
polyhemi!!!
cbody,
Mar 5, 9:02pm
cuda.340 wrote: you probably were thinking of a 392 or maybe the 313 polyhemi.[/quote what's a polyhemi!
a quick lesson in mopar smallblocks before we had 318 LA engines(the common ones we all know today) we had 313/318 polyhemis. the later ones were wedge design like most small block chevs & chryslers, but the early ones were a semi hemi design combustion chamber with the spark plug at the top but not going thru the rocker covers like the big block hemis. they were similar to the ford & holden V8 with the fact the intake runners were seperate, not simesed like the chev & chrysler units of today. by 1966 these early designs had gone in favour of the later designed small blocks which were basicly smaller big blocks which had gone this route earlier in their design. they were also known as the wide block, not to be confused with fords Y block.
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