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HEMI Hits a Homer for Chrysler
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Turbine engines don't have combustion chambers.
Nope.
see my post above. Turbine engines are jet engines and have no combustion chambers.
LordMorpheus
Diamond Member
They made a fe jet-engined cars in the 50's or 60's or something. They never took off (haha! punny!)
LOL. That was funnay!
Yes, they were experimental. GM did it with certain buses and Chrysler did it for a long time. I still have the article somewhere around here. Only a dozen or so cars were made. People got to test drive them for a month to see how they were in everyday use.
Power wise they were the equivelent to a 318 2bbl. I believe they idled at 30,000 rpm and had direct drive. Chrysler was having turbine issues with them because they required exotic alloys to make them dependable for a warrantee type time frame. They eventually gave up on it in the early 1980s. The rear exiting exhaust was also a concern because they didn't want it melting the car behind them.
darkswordsman17
Lifer
Did I claim that you could get a turbine engine in a car? I don't think so.
I was just proving the fact that turbine cars are better at making power than piston engines.
I think you need to chill the fvck out man, I'm not stating that I've found the cure for AIDS or cancer here.
And you can in fact get a turbine powered car. Chrysler made some back in the 60s and also they've been run (not the Chryslers) at Indy, where they dominated until the transmission blew in the closing laps and then were banned because of their dominance (sounds familiar NASCAR HEMI fans?).
Whoops didn't read your post.
I was just proving the fact that turbine cars are better at making power than piston engines.
I think you need to chill the fvck out man, I'm not stating that I've found the cure for AIDS or cancer here.
And you can in fact get a turbine powered car. Chrysler made some back in the 60s and also they've been run (not the Chryslers) at Indy, where they dominated until the transmission blew in the closing laps and then were banned because of their dominance (sounds familiar NASCAR HEMI fans?).
Whoops didn't read your post.
The sweet sound of what? I can't hear you over the sweet roar of 8000+ hp TF Hemi. 😀
Noted.
I already stated about the turbine in a Mopar in the previous post.
It was experimental only. No cars were sold to the public. All but 1 were destroyed after the project was ended in the early 80's.
Yup, us Nascar Hemi fans were very impressed with the 1964 Daytona 500. 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th place went to the hemi cars. Too bad Chrysler broke the rules requiring 500 publicly available units to be sold. They were then not allowed to use the hemi and Chrysler pulled out of the 1965 season. They returned in 1966 when the street hemi became an option in production cars. Nascar was never the same since.
:Q
what engine is that?
Hmmm.........
I like big engines myself. Then again I don't know how much a TF Hemi weighs.
I know the production street hemi weighs 900lbs. The race (super stock) hemi weighs nearly 600 lbs.
My 318 weighs 450lbs as did my old Buick 350. Not sure what my Ford's 302 weighs, but the car weighs nearly 4000 lbs. Eeek.
That's true.
But it depends on so many things. Full size pickups with big engines weigh a lot. My Ford weighs 4000 lbs and thats a 1987 Crown Vic.
1968 Super Stock Hemi Dart weighs 2150 lbs.
My 1979 Lebaron weighs 3400 lbs.
Todays samller cars weigh 2500 - 3000 lbs.
Less weight = better fuel economy and if HP is the question = way faster.
With RWD the weight is distributed fairly evenly over the whole vehicle, whereas FWD have most of the weight in the front.
Did you know that Toyota is the only other car company in the world that is allowed to make and sell a Chrysler hemi?
Did you know that Australia made a Hemi Slant 6 sixpack? Ok it wasn't really a hemi but it sure was one wild inline six. 302 hp.
Turbine & Wankel rotary engines disadvantage is that they prefer to have an optimum RPM to operate, therefore accelerating & decelerating dramatically reduce the lifespan of the engine. Also, the seals of the engine seemed to wear out much quicker than the rings on piston engines.
CombatChuk
Platinum Member
While they've improved the rotary (RX-8). It doesn't have any low-end grunt and the fuel milage isn't that great.
Actually the Hemi was chosen not because of 2 valves per cylinder. It was chosen because unlike the competing BB ford 427, the Hemi loved to be fed nitro-methane fuel. It made more power and was more reliable than any other racing engine in that class. Mopar could have given it 4 vavles / cylinder and it would still have been used. Hell up until 1954, I believe, they were still using the flathead V8 from Ford.
The fact is it was chosen as the standard engine before any 2 valve per cylinder rule came out. It just happened to be the best engine for that application.
😕
yes the hemi would have failed to pass stricter emmissions testing after 1971. It was a racing engine detuned for the street.
Multi-valves would have been interesting on the hemi. A SOHC version was built. But even with 2 valves/cylinder the hemi can out flow just about anything. For Mopar's purpose, this engine was for winning races, not fuel economy or emmissions. That is why it came with dual 4bbl carbs. It didn't need it on the street, but it allowed the egine to have more than enough airflow for stock and superstock racing.
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