Thread: Hemi guys, need your advice.

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Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Well, my hemi experience is pretty limited--most I couldn't get to run but a few seconds at a time!!!!!!!----

need a 735 donovan to

Well Pat---some of my hemis were Donovans--we had one of the first five blocks from his first batch, John Wiebe had the first prototype---We also were the first to go to 4.250 bore,billet crank, dry sump, front driven oil pump/fuel pump, 8:71 blower--I don't remember if we had the first heads but at least would of been in the first group
You Chevy Donovan guys are Johnny Come Lately---------whats your weather doing? still snowing???

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You Chevy Donovan guys are Johnny Come Lately---------whats your weather doing? still snowing???[/QUOTE] yep i know jerry you the man BUT better late then never yep heats on and bones are sore i think i may stay home and work on this 14-71 blower in the livening room thats livening for me.need to deck some blocks and bore some .why not hopp over with you line hone in your back pocket .i have some of them to that need to be done

Snowing, good God it's May! I don't know how you guys put up with that weather. Down here it is like the entrance to hell right now.

Don

Don down there you need to start a business selling sand pellets for BBQs--before long it will be self lighting so you can sell it in California where charcoal lighter is illegal.
Just think of it---after BBQing you can use the residue for about anything sand is used for, even recycle it to the beach

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Don down there you need to start a business selling sand pellets for BBQs--before long it will be self lighting so you can sell it in California where charcoal lighter is illegal.
Just think of it---after BBQing you can use the residue for about anything sand is used for, even recycle it to the beach

if you like your sea food cooked in oil comes as a BP kit. self starting sand for the BBQ pit and you pre oiled sea food . them dam A$$hole$

I think every one should boycott BP to get there attention

We need to as citizens react to all these big guys by whenever there is stuff out like this to just as sop EVERY legal resident to completely boycott any company that makes news like BP, HalBurton,etc.

Just think that if everybody that had any stock would just not buy or sell ANY stock for a week how much that would effect wall street!!!!!they live high off of buying and selling COMMISIONS, not what the companies stock(just paper/static electricity) is worth!!!!

I never got one with a dual point distributor in it.
But most of mine didn't have any distributor in them when I got them anyway.
Seams like I was allways buying the mallory dual points and then would put the old Accel 50,000 volt coils on them. The best thing was I would tell the guy down at the speed shop what RPM's I was running and how much the car weight was, and he would set the distributor right there on the machine with out being in the car. And they allway seamed to run great.
Kurt

If any good comes out of this oil spill I hope it is that the Government now sees how idiotic it is to even THINK about putting more rigs out there. A friend of mine drove supply boats for the ones off of Galveston Tx and he told me horror stories about how damaging they are to the environment.

How dumb can we be to even entertain such an idea? Oh, and notice gas prices rising rapidly? They screw up and we pay the price. Classic.

Don

This isn't aimed at anyone in particular, just a general rant against parrots.

The first major off shore drilling spill in over 40 years! What a horrible record!! Those EVIL oil companies!!! Those thousands of other rigs that aren't a problem should definately be ignored............move along, nothing to see here.

I wish there were a way to isolate the outcomes of all these silly notions of banning oil production, chasing windmills for energy, and the rest of the suggestions from the uninformed or deceptive charlatans to those who embrace them. If you're in favor of eliminating oil production then you (not those of us with a more realistic view) should be put on gasoline rationing. You think wind is the way to go? Great! You'll be rationed 1% of the electricity you use now, your rates will be trippled, and you'll be burdened with the tax load caused by the federal subsidies that make these jokes possible. Oh, and you'll be subject to the brown/black outs when the wind don't blow. And of course we're concerned about all the birdies those vicious oil companies are killing, so we'll back up the truck loads of dead birds caused by windmills and dump them in your front yard.

It's a shame this platform had a failure. And since it gets virtually no mention in the day to day news, it's a bigger shame that 11 families have suffered the loss of a loved one. Accidents happen. We've had several rod accidents posted on here the last week or two. Does that mean we should ban hot rods immediately? Of course not..........that would be foolish! What we should do is find out what we didn't know that contributed to the accidents and fix the actual problem. Learn from our experiences. Why shouldn't the same rationale apply to deep water drilling. Has the question of why we do deep water drilling while we forbid shallow water drilling that is less technologically challenging occurred to you folks who buy into the elitest rant?

Reasonable priced and readily available energy is essential to our current society to survive. The US oil companies have done a very good job when you take a rational look at price and performance, of keeping our economy moving over time. They take hits when the world market pushes up the price of crude oil (of course if you're uninformed you believe that their control of less than 6% of the worlds oil production allows them to "control the market"). But all those ready to heap criticism are completely silent when prices go down............hmmmmm! Well, that's human nature.

Just so there's no misunderstanding. I'm not a big fan of BP. I'm sure they've made some serious errors in trying to deal with this enormous disaster. After all, nobody has any experience with dealing with exact kind of failure. As for the cause, I don't think anyone really knows yet. BP runs some commercials that I find offensive. Those supposed "man on the street" interviews that highlight ignorant people who are clueless about how much energy we need day to day, much less where it comes from. While they're entitled to their opinion, the persistent airing of ignorance fosters more ignorance. Sadly, BP has gotten involved in programs for "alternative energy" that put them on the government dole for subsidies. Cynical? Yeah, you bet! There are some technologies that might pan out in time, but does anybody with a brain think that anyone in the government has a clue as to what really makes sense? Just like it takes ignoring all the safely operated platforms to fit the narrative, so does ignoring the post office, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, Amtrak, and on and on...........

Never mind........those that think that private enterprise is the problem and the government is the answer must be unaware of Greece.............and certainly won't let reality change their mind.

One oil spill is way too many Bob. The other problem with this is that the oil company support systems tend to use up every inch of waterfront property they can get their hands on. They need places to dock their boats, offload oil and supplies, etc. Down here in S. Florida we have some pretty pristine beaches from which a huge chunk of our yearly economy comes. If the oil companies get serious about drilling here you can bet that in future years Florida will not be the vacation destination it is today.

Didn't mean for this thread on hemis to turn into one on Big Oil vs the planet, but at least we can agree to disagree.

Don

I didn't mean to hi jack it either---I just think that the folks in charge are too arigant and need to get a little humility---boycotting any large corp by millions of citizens would maybe get there attention. And as for the wall street people---if every body stopped making trades for a month, the corporations would still be making and selling product , just the wall street people wouldn't be getting any commissons!!!

well bob i know we need ...oil... and i know there is a price to pay .i think most would hope they could of stop the spill much sooner ? it would be alot better to deal with this on land . i know they drill were the oil is . i would hope to god they would of had someone that could fix things when evey thing go.s to hell in a hand basket ? so do they?

Really Don ...... the only thing I know or remember was back in the day I'd visit Barnett Race Cars shop, which was in Norcross, Ga. at the time, would use BB engines for the "base" of the many hemi's they built. They'd weld the appropriate studs into the valley area to bolt the hemi heads to. Not sure what other trick it was to bolt those heads up but I believe Steve Bagwells cars were running them .....

Magazine stuff huh?? Hopefully my '46 will be as kick ass as Dan's RPU - PLEASE don't sell yourself short!!!

FYI: If you need the guys name that does the CNC runners & base intake mounts .... let me know. I think you'll end up with a kick ass intake. It's only bending & welding aluminum Don !!

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