Anyone know the answer to this one?
I dug up some information about Chrysler playing with 32 valve pushrod hemi heads for eventual use in Nascar.
They got canned right at the end of production due to Nascar outlawing OHC engines.
Supposedly from the magazine article one of the guys scanned and uploaded, these suckers made 1080hp and 850tq naturally aspirated on a 572 block at 7200rpm and they were scared to spin it faster with one pair in existence at the time.
(about 11th post down is the magazine article with pics and numbers)
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=5488738&Main=5487763
I can only imagine how cool that would be to have. One of those with a solid cam and 10,000rpm without the complexity of a DOHC setup. Not to mention way less parasitic loss from spinning 4 cams.
So did Ford ever do anything like this? The Mopar guys cant be the only ones now..... Just found it very interesting and wondered if our boys made any of these. Also felt like sharing .
I dug up some information about Chrysler playing with 32 valve pushrod hemi heads for eventual use in Nascar.
They got canned right at the end of production due to Nascar outlawing OHC engines.
Supposedly from the magazine article one of the guys scanned and uploaded, these suckers made 1080hp and 850tq naturally aspirated on a 572 block at 7200rpm and they were scared to spin it faster with one pair in existence at the time.
(about 11th post down is the magazine article with pics and numbers)
http://board.moparts.org/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=5488738&Main=5487763
I can only imagine how cool that would be to have. One of those with a solid cam and 10,000rpm without the complexity of a DOHC setup. Not to mention way less parasitic loss from spinning 4 cams.
So did Ford ever do anything like this? The Mopar guys cant be the only ones now..... Just found it very interesting and wondered if our boys made any of these. Also felt like sharing .