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   Message 507 of 2,177   
   Roy Witt to TOM WALKER   
   Value tap / cam noise   
   31 Oct 11 10:55:46   
   
   30 Oct 11 18:34, TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
    RW>> TW> Think that could be a reason for the Performance advantage??   
      
    RW>> What performance advantage? Even a 5L Mustang can beat their Hemi   
    RW>> powered Challanger...hands down. Factory Mustangs and Camaros run in   
    RW>> the high to low 13s at the dragstrip, Challengers run in the mid to   
    RW>> high 14s...   
      
    TW> I was thinking of the Origional Hemi. Since then the other style   
    TW> engines have made advances and the Hemi has not.   
      
   Even during the run of the older Hemi, the wedges could beat it with a 25   
   cubic inch higher displacement and get better fuel economy as well (not   
   by much, but 12mpg is better than 10mpg). Which is why the hemi died the   
   death that it did. The first gas shortage was only a year away and yet   
   the 455 GM, 460 Ford and the Chrysler 440 stuck around for about 10   
   years after the hemi was long gone...Of those, the only one still with us   
   is the 454 Chevy, which has grown to 502...   
      
      
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