Actually in the case of GM, they were accused of putting Chevrolet engines
in Oldsmobiles and if you got one of those cars, you couldn't even get your
oil filter changed at the Oldsmobile dealer. Oldsmobile didn't even make
the size engine that was in their cars. Really ticked customers off.



"Bill Putney" > wrote in message
...
> Steve wrote:
>> ...One of
>> the big issues with bringing back the Hemi head was keeping emissions
>> under control. The original Hemi had a lot of trouble both with NOx
>> (from high compression) and HC (from the fact that parts of the chamber
>> tended to be shrouded until the piston had moved down a significant
>> distance). The new Hemi head addressed both of those issues very well.
>
> Hmmm. There has been periodic discussion on the 300M Club forums over the
> years in which it was convincingly claimed that many engines, including
> the LH engines (3.2, 3.5, possibly the 2.7), are no less hemi-head engines
> than ones that are "officially" designated by DC as Hemi's. (Kind of
> reminds me of the Oldsmobile "Rocket V-8" debacle wherein Oldsmobile got
> in legal trouble for substituting non-"Rocket" engines in their cars when
> they temporarily ran out of them on the assy. line, and the only
> difference between them and the non-"Rocket" GM engines was a larger oil
> filter and a "Rocket V-8" decal. But I digress...)
>
> What say you (and others in the know) on that claim?
>
> Bill Putney
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