Ford took the Shelby AC Cobra:
http://www.pacificsites.com/~brooke/CSX3282.shtml and GT 40:
http://www.motortrend.com/future/con...112_0201_gt40/ to Europe and
won everything in sight.
Chrysler's '51 Hemi in hard block form is putting out over twelve
thousand horsepower that propels our dragster to over three hundred and
thirty miles an hour in four seconds:
http://www.nhra.com/wklynews/news5-22-98_2.html
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http://www.billhughes.com/

wrote:
>
> A few of the limited production engines did have the horsepower, but
> they were job-shop-built, wild cam, high compression engines that
> needed very high octane fuel and in most cases were not capable of 29"
> Hg manifold pressure operation for more than 2 to 10 hours (even if oil
> and coolant temps were magically controlled) before extremely loud
> noises occurred and smoke, flames and oil went everywhere.
>
> The much storied 426 Hemi ("Race Hemi", "late Hemi", whatever...) was
> such an engine. It excelled at NASCAR in its day, thereafter in nitro
> burning dragsters with 100% power TBO of something like seven seconds.
> But you know why they were never used in marine applications? The
> valvetrain was good for a hundred hours, maybe, even at the 350-400 hp
> mark, and at 500 hp the lower end had maybe fifteen good hours.
> Monteverdi built a sports car called a Hai, with the Hemi, and few were
> built-they _could not_ make the Hemi live on the Autobahn for more than
> maybe ten thousand miles. Jensen would have nothing whatever to do with
> the Hemi.
>
> The "side oiler" Ford 427 is another deal. External oil pipes went out
> with the OX-5 and Isadora Duncan era Bugattis-it was a kluge, a patch
> to save Ford the trouble of making new patterns and core boxes to do it
> right.
>
> There were Americans who "did it right" and who the Europeans learned
> from-names like MIller, Goossen, Meyer-Drake, Rentschler, Allison come
> to mind-but they had nothing to do with mass production poop out of
> Detroit. Let's call a spade a spade here.