Saw this on YouTube and thought of Kingfish's build...
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On the subject of V8 engines, I think that the thrift store may have snookered you with the Mickey Mouse car. I'm pretty certain that there was never a V6 Hemi ever produced! 
As a lover of odd ball motors this piqued my curiosity. The little 647cc v-twin in my Honda Hawk GT has hemispherical heads so I wondered if any performance V6s had ever been built with hemi heads. Turns out...On the subject of V8 engines, I think that the thrift store may have snookered you with the Mickey Mouse car. I'm pretty certain that there was never a V6 Hemi ever produced!
Chrysler produced an inline Hemi-6 which was used in Australian market production cars in the 70s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Hemi-6_Engine
In the early 50s Chrysler designed a Hemi V6 that sounds pretty interesting but was never in production:
https://www.allpar.com/threads/the-1951-chrysler-3-6-liter-v6-hemi.229888/
There are some modern V6s that have been produced with hemispherical heads but that interests me less than the vintage stuff.
Then there's this wicked little 429 V6 Hemi developed by Arias in the 80s. This thing is crazy and should definitely go in KF's hotrod!
https://bangshift.com/general-news/videos/morning-symphony-arias-hemi-v6-an-absolutely-rare-gem/
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As a lover of odd ball motors this piqued my curiosity. The little 647cc v-twin in my Honda Hawk GT has hemispherical heads so I wondered if any performance V6s had ever been built with hemi heads. Turns out...
Chrysler produced an inline Hemi-6 which was used in Australian market production cars in the 70s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Hemi-6_Engine
In the early 50s Chrysler designed a Hemi V6 that sounds pretty interesting but was never in production:
https://www.allpar.com/threads/the-1951-chrysler-3-6-liter-v6-hemi.229888/
There are some modern V6s that have been produced with hemispherical heads but that interests me less than the vintage stuff.
Then there's this wicked little 429 V6 Hemi developed by Arias in the 80s. This thing is crazy and should definitely go in KF's hotrod!
https://bangshift.com/general-news/videos/morning-symphony-arias-hemi-v6-an-absolutely-rare-gem/
Great history lesson!
Well KF, looks like you turned the table on the thrift store and found one of the rare V6 Arias Hemi engines!
That was a straight six not a V.
Great engines, have worked on a couple.
The old Ford flathead V8s only had 3 exhaust ports on each side. The middle two cylinders shared one port.
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As a lover of odd ball motors this piqued my curiosity. The little 647cc v-twin in my Honda Hawk GT has hemispherical heads so I wondered if any performance V6s had ever been built with hemi heads. Turns out...
Chrysler produced an inline Hemi-6 which was used in Australian market production cars in the 70s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Hemi-6_Engine
In the early 50s Chrysler designed a Hemi V6 that sounds pretty interesting but was never in production:
https://www.allpar.com/threads/the-1951-chrysler-3-6-liter-v6-hemi.229888/
There are some modern V6s that have been produced with hemispherical heads but that interests me less than the vintage stuff.
Then there's this wicked little 429 V6 Hemi developed by Arias in the 80s. This thing is crazy and should definitely go in KF's hotrod!
https://bangshift.com/general-news/videos/morning-symphony-arias-hemi-v6-an-absolutely-rare-gem/
The Aussie Hemi 6 didn’t have a true hemi combustion chamber, sort of a semi-hemi but a great engine nevertheless. I believe they are the best mass produced 6 cylinder pushrod engine I know of.
The 300hp 265ci triple 45mm weber carbed version that was under the hood of the early 70’s Aussie RT charger was truly special. Chrysler was so serious to make it a winner, they air freighted a shortened ute with the same wheelbase as a Charger they were using to develop the engine, to Weber in Italy to set up the triple carbs! When the ute was back in Australia it was sent to a racetrack for testing where local General Motors and Ford spies had no idea what was going on and dismissed it as locals hooning around in a ute.
It is unfortunate the Hemi 6 powered Charger never won Australia’s prestigious 500 mile endurance race but it wasn’t for a lack of trying but more a lack of development time and money. I’m a Ford guy but really respect what the local Chrysler gurus attempted to do.
When I was 16 (40 years ago) my older brother had a mate who had a mildly modified engine in a lightweight Valiant Pacer sedan. We spent a summer after school ended that year, racing almost every car we could on the streets. It had a shaved and ported head with 2.19inch cleveland intake valves, a factory race cam, the standard 2 barrel Carter carb and factory twin outlet cast iron manifold. With a basic 3 speed manual and 3.5 diff we only got beaten a couple of times by cars with much bigger v8 engines. Mean Nick the Greek who owned it, wound out the stock bottom end way past 6000rpm daily and it never broke. I also never forget the howl it made.
The Hemi 6 engine in the photo below is stroked to 300ci and has an aftermarket alloy head. It is fitted to a RT clone that won best Australia’s RT charger at the top Chrysler shows, beating even real RT’s! I owned the car when it was base model with a 245 hemi and only 54000 miles and sold it to the guy who built it up as an RT. I named it Herb after the original owner who was 94 years old when he stopped driving it and sold it to me.
The day the new owner picked it up.
Herb the original owner.
Race RT Charger
The shortened ute with the triple carbed engine.
Hope you don’t mind my contribution here KF.
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Great story and awesome car!
On the subject of V8 engines, I think that the thrift store may have snookered you with the Mickey Mouse car. I'm pretty certain that there was never a V6 Hemi ever produced!
I didn't even notice it only had 6 pipes.
As a lover of odd ball motors this piqued my curiosity. The little 647cc v-twin in my Honda Hawk GT has hemispherical heads so I wondered if any performance V6s had ever been built with hemi heads. Turns out...
Chrysler produced an inline Hemi-6 which was used in Australian market production cars in the 70s:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysler_Hemi-6_Engine
In the early 50s Chrysler designed a Hemi V6 that sounds pretty interesting but was never in production:
https://www.allpar.com/threads/the-1951-chrysler-3-6-liter-v6-hemi.229888/
There are some modern V6s that have been produced with hemispherical heads but that interests me less than the vintage stuff.
Then there's this wicked little 429 V6 Hemi developed by Arias in the 80s. This thing is crazy and should definitely go in KF's hotrod!
https://bangshift.com/general-news/videos/morning-symphony-arias-hemi-v6-an-absolutely-rare-gem/
Wicked detective work!!
I like that even better. Since the engine block and heads on the mickey car was part of the body, I can make this engine into a blown flathead Ford V8. That actually fits the build better too.
The geometry of the cycle truck frame with the smaller 20" wheel up front lends itself wellto typical gasser hot rod geometry.
I know that I want a mag up front since a lot of the gassers had them. My first thoughts were a Lester, but I got ghosted by the seller in Florida.
Then a set of these modern wally mongoose mags popped up locally. The styling is different, but I like how it mimics the staggered front/back spoke placement that is on a lot of the gasser mags.
I know that I want a mag up front since a lot of the gassers had them. My first thoughts were a Lester, but I got ghosted by the seller in Florida.
Then a set of these modern wally mongoose mags popped up locally. The styling is different, but I like how it mimics the staggered front/back spoke placement that is on a lot of the gasser mags.
That wheel is Mag-nificent!
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Love that mag and where this is going KF.
If only you could find another one of those cars you could turn it into a V 12, and that would give you an excuse to really stretch the frame.
I’m trying to imagine how you can do this without it turning into some kind of a hobby horse with tail pipes, but so far I don’t have a clue.
I’m trying to imagine how you can do this without it turning into some kind of a hobby horse with tail pipes, but so far I don’t have a clue.
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So much attention given to V8’s.. the straight 6s are much smooth and deliver more torque than a similar sized V8: great for road racing
Straight sixes are cool. Used to be a pretty good aftermarket of Inline 6 hop up goodies. Also a lot of performance goodies for Model A 4 bangers too.
A few years back a friend had me install a McLeod hydraulic clutch in his 65 Dart which had a slant 6, shaved heads, 4bbl, dual exhaust. It was white and mine is black V8 GT. Spy vs Spy. Mines a little faster but not by much.
Slant six Hemi Ute from @LukeTheJoker and @GTHOtrod neck of the woods found in Vegas,
and one Bad Gasser from the same day.
and one Bad Gasser from the same day.
I left my 83 F100 to my brother when I moved overseas. He built up the 300 I6 with a higher compression head, Weber intake and headers, and a 4 speed manual transmission. I asked for a vid but nothing yet.
Clifford still has tons of stuff:
https://cliffordperformance.net/store/ols/categories/ford-240300
