Thread: Ardun Heads

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Well for what it is worth I wrote to the "oogabooga" site Richard lists above to correct the spelling of "Duntov" with a "T" and they have now corrected it. In addition there is a quote from Zora at the bottom of the site that I did not notice before and may be new. In that quote Zora says he first noted the Chrysler design in 1953 after he was employed by GM and sought no legal action and in fact he was pleased to see his (their) design adopted and put into mass production. Thus Chrysler merely adopted a "good idea", but Golleeeeee(!) why didn't Ford pick up on the design when Duntov was under contract? The probable answer is that the 337 cu. in. Lincoln looked stronger AND something we can understand, those valve covers certainly took up more space than a flathead design and led to the affectionate term for the ARDUN engines as Elephant engines and later applied to the Firepower V8 in a few cases. Thanks to Bob, the list of specs for the '57 Red Ram Dodge are much better than I remembered, does anyone have a '57 Dodge engine out there? Probably they are very rare, but it looks like the '57 "little hemi" was quite a motor. I should have stashed one away long ago, when I was busy paying for kids braces and buying station wagons to haul haul the family! Time flies!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder