I had a coworker in the late 1960's who had a 426 in a Coronet hardtop. YIKES! With a four-speed, driving it around town i needed not to shift out of second gear. Pulling onto the highway, well, i beat out just about everything. His coronet was painted in a dark blue, a really nice color that year. He removed all of the R/T badges and the 426 Hemi badge, carefully refinished t holes aa drove without being identified as a muscle car.
I'll be darned... I too have a 426 in my Coronet hardtop. Mine's a 69 R/T that originally came with a 440 4 spd 4 barrel, but by the time I bought it 21 years ago, that had been over revved, and a crank bearing to con rod was pushed out between the main caps and the 440 was replaced with the 426 max wedge it has in it now, and topped with a 440 six pack. Probably the only 426 wedge with a 440 six pack intake, as I've never heard of anyone doing that. Heck, why no one puts a set of 413 long runner dual quads on a 440 or 426 wedge, I don't know... it's pure eye candy
I just saw this video from Bangshift, where they are testing a 440 with the long runner intake on it. They say that this intake has divided runners all the way from the carb to the intake ports, so it is designed for maximum torque below 3000 rpm. I skipped through a lot of the video, because they were trying to get the dyno to run below 3000 rpm to measure the torque. I don't think they got any lower than that, but they measured 569 lb-ft at 3000 rpm.
damn! that's a lot of torque! I wonder what the numbers would be on a 500Hp 426 hemi for the torque, with the long runner intakes? After all, the Hemi was a dual quad, and the dual quads on the split long runners ought to be identical-ish
I had a coworker in the late 1960's who had a 426 in a Coronet hardtop. YIKES! With a four-speed, driving it around town i needed not to shift out of second gear. Pulling onto the highway, well, i beat out just about everything. His coronet was painted in a dark blue, a really nice color that year. He removed all of the R/T badges and the 426 Hemi badge, carefully refinished t holes aa drove without being identified as a muscle car.
ReplyDeleteI'll be darned... I too have a 426 in my Coronet hardtop. Mine's a 69 R/T that originally came with a 440 4 spd 4 barrel, but by the time I bought it 21 years ago, that had been over revved, and a crank bearing to con rod was pushed out between the main caps and the 440 was replaced with the 426 max wedge it has in it now, and topped with a 440 six pack. Probably the only 426 wedge with a 440 six pack intake, as I've never heard of anyone doing that. Heck, why no one puts a set of 413 long runner dual quads on a 440 or 426 wedge, I don't know... it's pure eye candy
DeleteI just saw this video from Bangshift, where they are testing a 440 with the long runner intake on it. They say that this intake has divided runners all the way from the carb to the intake ports, so it is designed for maximum torque below 3000 rpm. I skipped through a lot of the video, because they were trying to get the dyno to run below 3000 rpm to measure the torque. I don't think they got any lower than that, but they measured 569 lb-ft at 3000 rpm.
ReplyDeletehttps://bangshift.com/bangshift1320/bangshift1320-tech-stories/bangshift1320-tech-stories-engine/dodge-440-long-ram-dyno-test-too-much-torque/?fbclid=IwAR2oHg_86rvfWqRGHJt3c7xPRXyDHBKp335P0pSOSA2gmP9xz5B7LHWFWFQ
damn! that's a lot of torque! I wonder what the numbers would be on a 500Hp 426 hemi for the torque, with the long runner intakes?
DeleteAfter all, the Hemi was a dual quad, and the dual quads on the split long runners ought to be identical-ish