Thread: Blown Hemi

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I wish I had half the old 92's I have scattered all over the country in the good old days ( well division 7 anyway). Here is my 2 cents and reasons for this direction. CHOOSE the 392 !!! The 92 was around in the time that all the aftermarket parts were being born and everything is interchangeable = Donovan, pink and so on all made items that were for the 392 block. You can find aluminum heads cranks, rods, crank girdles and pans, valve covers, front timing covers and so on. Granted this is all collectible stuff but the demand is still on the low end but making a comeback so pricing is reasonable compared to the difficulty to find all goodies for the less popular IE Red Ram and so on. I would stat away from old raced stuff and use STOCK internals as they will be in better shape and not need machine work to make all compatible.
A 92 will a mild boost of 5 to 8 pounds of boost will live forever on the street with NO regular maintenance like when you have 40 pounds of squeeze pushing bearing out etc.... Good luck finding NON cracked heads as they all crack from plug hole to valve seats and across the seats. The plug hole cracks rarely hurt anything and new valve seats stop most of the problems on a wet or water cooled engine (we filled the block with plaster and ran them dry so cracks were no big deal. Adjustable push rods or a stock cam Will let you update to about any combo you want there. Use the marine valve train if you can find at a good price. The old Hunt or Vertex mags are easy to find and make for trouble free running. A 6/71 blower is plenty and cures problems of the bigger blowers you do not need anyway. The 1/2 pitch stuff is so cheap to run as industrial timing belts are easy to get but the metric pulley stuff is easier to find now days. Run about 10 to 20 percent under driven to keep street-able. The Carter AFB was the most tune-able and easiest to modify (remember it always sees full vac when sitting on top of the blower. New carbs now are around but modified carters should be easy to find as who needs them anymore. The old bug catcher mechanical injection converted to hidden electronic injectors is WAY COOL but $$$$ too.
Getting pretty windy here so I will stop but finding an old drag racer and digging through his old goodies and memory is a jump start. Nothing cooler than a blown 92 with mechanical hat injection to make my vision of a TOY.

392...Cool with any type of topping!

Pat

vettster, We too left a trail of boat and raft anchors around Div 5. It's surprising there are any 392's left after the fuel , gas and alcohol guys got done with them. Of course the gassers mangled quite a number of them too. haha

It's a shame when we look back at what we threw away getting blocks and heads and cranks. Guys would hijack for adjustable rocker arm sets today. I know we tossed at least half a dozen sets of these.

One old Imperial we picked up for $25 we had sitting out in the back yard and the neighbors complained so a buddy brought his wrecker over and we literally ripped the motor and trans out. All we cut was the exhaust pipes. We didn't even unbolt the hood ...we just peeled it back. We gutted the whole motor and saved just the block and heads and crank. The rest went thru the windshield onto the front seat. Then we hauled it to the bone yard and got $25 for it because it had a good battery and tires.

We had several sets of dimpled valve covers that came on the adjustable rocker motors. I think these were 300's..just tossed them...they weren't cool.

When it came to the 426's we did about the same. They just cost a lot more. One was a Challenger that dropped a valve. I think we gave $500 for it. We got the block, heads (one needed a seat and some grinding), crank, oil pump, 2 x4 and manifold and aircleaner. 4 speed. Dana 60 rear end. Junked the rest. I don't remember exactly but i think we evened out with the sale of the 4 spd and rear end. I don't think we sold the carbs..I think they went inthe dumpster.

Ok..which way to the firing squad.