[s-cars] NAC: biggest engine in American Muscle Car

[Joseph Pizzimenti]

Yeah, but is that rwhp or flywheel hp?  Altitude
correction?  Anti-seize?  Torsen?

Bueller?


--- QSHIPQ at aol.com wrote:
> The corvette came with the 454ci in the famous L88
> option package in 72
> ("L88" badge on the hood riser).  The 460 was an
> option in several of fords car
> chassis in the early 70's as well.   The  In terms
> of obsolute "power" of big
> blocks however (here's what you should read
> Frederic!), the 426 Hemi was IT.  The
> official factory rating by Chrysler of the 426Hemi
> was 425hp at 5000 and
> 446lb/ft at 5000.  However, Chrysler never "claimed"
> this was maximum HP, it was
> just the factory rating.  Several dyno tests of the
> rock stock 426Hemi revealed
> that the torque was correct, but that HP at 6000rpm
> was actually 471.  To
> compare, a stock W30 442 was rated at 350 at the
> time.  The hemi found it's way
> into a lot of chassis, especially desireable are the
> police package hemis found
> in some rather mundane stripped 4 doors.
>
> Insurance issues hit around 72.
>
> Scott Justusson
>
>
>
>
> In a message dated 8/28/2003 7:08:28 PM Central
> Daylight Time,
> strangconst at rogers.com writes:
>
> > >engine. The Corvette had a 427 in 69, but you may
> have been able t
> > "special
> > >order" it w/ a 454, but I may be wrong about
> that.
> > >
> > >Ford had the 429 in their Mustang as you know.
> The 460 ford was huge, but
> > it
> > >was a "truck" engine, I'm not sure you could
> order it in a passenger car,
> > >that is not to say that a 460 never made it into
> a passenger car.
> > >
> > >Caddy 472 was the biggest engine in '69 but I do
> not consider that a
> > muscle
> > >car, though I had one (convertible, of course)
> that made many Camaro
> > owners
> > >cry. I believe the 500 ci Caddy came out in '72.
> > >
> > >But the most powerful muscle car engine of the
> time was the Mopar Hemi. At
> > >426 ci, it was the most efficient combustion
> chamber design at the time.
> > >Plenty of people drove those Hemis from the
> dealer straight to the
> > >dragstrip. They came in Dodge Chargers, and a few
> Challengers, as
>
>


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