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Location: Houston | I pulled the 354 Spitfire out of my car today and while it was convenient I weighed it. This was the complete engine with no carb but with the front accessories in place. b
The scale is calibrated and can weigh in 1lbs increments. Anyone want to guess the weight?
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Location: Houston | Exactly 700lbs as you see it. That's about 50 lbs. more than a 440. |
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Location: Houston | Iron 440 with aluminum intake 652Lbs.
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Location: Houston | 526" Siamese bore Hemi with aluminum heads but no accessories or manifolds 606lbs.
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Location: The not-so-great, dirty-white North ( Michigan) | Greg...
Those weights "dry" or "wet" (eg: without or with oil and any fluids in the water jackets)? |
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Location: Big pimpin' | I knew them old Motors were heavy as hell and nobody believed me.... |
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Location: N.W. Fla. | GregCon - 2012-09-03 7:03 PM
Exactly 700lbs as you see it. That's about 50 lbs. more than a 440. Officially the 354 hemi, with heavier heads, with the huge P/S pump/generator & other acessories is supposed to be 697 lbs. Would be less with modern P/S pump & Alt & an alloy intake |
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Location: Houston | The Hemi and 440 are liquid free. The 354 would have had water in the jackets....but when I drained it it was about 1/2 gallon so that's 3-4 lbs. |
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Location: Jamaica Plain, MA | I imagine that means my 325 poly probably weighs that much. Are those motors the same exterior dimensions? |
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Location: Ponder, TX | Yep, back in 1960, the auto hobby shop on our Air Force base had a sign above the engine hoist that said it was not to be used with Chrysler V8s. The 331 Hemi in my 6-cyl '55 Savoy body gave the car a serious rake. |
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Location: Chestertown, NY ( near Lake George) | Complete 331 is about 735 lbs. |
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Location: N.W. Fla. | JT Vincent - 2012-09-04 3:59 PM
I imagine that means my 325 poly probably weighs that much. Are those motors the same exterior dimensions? No, the Dodge is a smaller, shorter length engine. The same source that lists a 354 hemi @ 697 lists the 315/325 hemi @ 611. |
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| You guys are weird - in a good way - is there no limit to the stuff you'll talk about with these cars?
Me and Kate are years away from worrying about the weight of her motor! |
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Location: Cushing, Wisconsin | 763lbs |
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Location: Hay Lakes, Alberta, Canada | So, if I put the torsion bars from a New Yorker into my Windsor, the front end will be miles in the air?
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Location: N.W. Fla. | miquelonbrad - 2012-09-21 9:14 AM
So, if I put the torsion bars from a New Yorker into my Windsor, the front end will be miles in the air? :bleh: If you're talking about the '57 there should be only about 30-50 lbs difference(depending on how much heavier the hemi heads are vs the poly heads) between a 354 Poly & a 392 Hemi. |
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Location: Jamaica Plain, MA | I wonder how much an L head six weighs. I heard somewhere that some people used six cylinder torsion bars on their race cars. Not clear why. |
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I look at this post many times hoping that some one will know what an non A/C - non Power Steering
A-318 ( 1962-1966 with manifolds ) and the fully dressed ( with A/C & Power Sterring ) 400 weigh's.
The 236/ 251/ 265 De Soto-Chrysler Flat Head Six is about the same weight as an pallet of cement bags.
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Location: N.W. Fla. | Rodger - 2012-09-26 12:06 PM
Greg and All
I look at this post many times hoping that some one will know what an non A/C - non Power Steering
A-318 ( 1962-1966 with manifolds ) and the fully dressed ( with A/C & Power Sterring ) 400 weigh's.
The 236/ 251/ 265 De Soto-Chrysler Flat Head Six is about the same weight as an pallet of cement bags.
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Location: Houston | This is obviously not a direct comparison, but here is the 354, now wearing Hemi heads and an AC compressor, still 700 lbs.
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Location: N.W. Fla. | That's a suprise! |
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Location: Houston | I should note that both weights are 700lbs, and the first reaction is to assume the scale is stuck on 700lbs. But not so...just to be sure I tossed a hammer on and it went up 2lbs. It's just a coincidence that the weights are the same.
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Location: N.W. Fla. | I'm tempted to put a hemi & poly head on the scales to see if they weigh the same. The Poly head just doesn't seem to be as heavy. |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | GregCon - 2012-09-03 5:09 PM
Iron 440 with aluminum intake 652Lbs.
Not to steal this thread, especially since I have a '57 Saratoga which will retain it's 354 Poly, but I've wondered how close a 440 could be brought to a stock LA engine's weight by using aluminum heads, intake, water pump, water pump housing and replacing the RV-2 A?C compressor with a modern unit.
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Location: Houston | You'd have to use an AL block to get to the small block weight.
Note the 354 Hemi does not have a distributor, which is light, but also note the PowerGen alternator is much lighter than the stock generator. |
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Location: Colo Spgs | To Kenny
If you use a MoPar 400 you are ahead:
1st. with purchase price.
2nd. A 80 pound difference
3rd not as thirsty
4th. they wind up quicker
5th. higher Re-Line using the same heads - Cam Spec's and Exhaust
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In 1959 when the 413's were introduced there was writing's that it was slightly more than 100 pounds lighter than all 392's.
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Location: Houston | in that case, you should dump the Poly and go right to a Chevy LS7 which is lighter, uses less gas, and revs quicker. |
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Location: N.W. Fla. | GregCon - 2013-10-26 1:00 PM
in that case, you should dump the Poly and go right to a Chevy LS7 which is lighter, uses less gas, and revs quicker. Speaking of TRDs, he could bolt a Toyata in there, but Y would anyone want to? |
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Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Thanks, guys. I was just wondering how much lighter a 440 would be with those changes. No plans to do anything like that. I have a 1972 400, a 1967 440, a 1957 301 and a 1968 318, though the latter is at a friend's house in Wisconsin.
Like I noted above, I'm keeping the factory 354 in my Saratoga and keeping it stock. In fact, I am still looking for a correct generator.
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Location: DFW, TX | Here is my mockup 331 with a Hilborn injector and no accessories.
I asked the engine stand, and it said it weighs somewhere between "Oooof" and "Get this thing off of me!"
And yes, I did brace the snout of the crank with a wooden jig. That Chebby engine stand is really distressed.
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Location: So. Cal | Nice motor Danny. I like the Imperial covers. My issue with Hilborn stuff is what will you use for an air cleaner?
This is an old picture of the 392 for my '56 Plymouth. It's a lot lighter than you heavy weighters
Aluminum heads -75lbs, Aluminum water pump -15 lbs, Aluminum intake -30lbs. So probably around 600 lbs.
I have a GM CS alternator mounted to it at the moment, but I plan to make it look more like a stock 300D motor. I will have to cut up a stock crossover to add in extra length, fill & paint the "Hot Heads" logos, and mount a powergen alternator to it.
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Location: DFW, TX | The injector stacks are 1-11/16, so my plan is to run removable Mikuni 45mm air cleaners with adapters. I don't have the tubes or air cleaners yet, so at this point it's just a hairbrained plan.
Those valve covers are from an old dragster. Someone cut big holes on the ends for breathers, and since it had a supercharger where the valley cover used to go, you can see the oil fill tube they had to add on the other side. They're a little beat up and the chrome is a little rough, but they have character!
Ultimately I want it to look similar to "Suddenly's" engine compartment.
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Location: So. Cal | I like it. I thought the "Suddenly" motor was a 392. That water crossover looks like it is from a 331. |
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Location: DFW, TX | Water crossovers were fitted to all '55+ Chrysler Hemi engines. The earlier '51-54 Hemis used a 'wet' intake design with the thermostat housing cast into the manifold, such as this.
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Location: N.W. Fla. | The 55-56 engines had a 4 leg W/P that the crossover was part of the pump. The 392 had a seperate W/P & crossover. Can't see well enough to tell from that photo witch this car had. |
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Location: So. Cal | Well it is obviously not a wet intake style, (Danny, the motor you posted is a DeSoto, not a '51-'54 Chrysler) but what confuses me is that the crossover is definitely a 4 leg water pump version used on 354 and 331's. They will not fit on a 392. But upon closer inspection, there is something really strange going on because underneath the crossover are block-off plates. It looks like he has the pump spaced out and fitted to the 392 (or whatever it is) with some adapters or something. Very odd. So it probably is a 392, or otherwise, it wouldn't need to be adapted. But why use this pump on it???
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Location: DFW, TX | Sorry, didn't mean to come across as demeaning, just using another image to show a wet intake.
Those adapters may be something used to adapt 331/354 heads to a 392 block. I looked for other photos but didn't see many, and none that show detail in this area. The engine is a 13.8:1 414ci 392, so it should get down the road pretty good!
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Location: So. Cal | I think I just figured it out. It looks like they were concerned with the water flow through the heads for some reason. So they blocked off the water ports at the front of the heads and are using those two braided hoses to plumb the water from the back of the heads to the crossover. Maybe this ensured that the water wouldn't bypass the heads under extreme conditions and create a hot spot at the back. They probably used the 331 pump just because being offset from the proper screw location, made it easier to block it off with a plate. Or maybe they liked the arrangement better than the separate pump? |
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Location: N.W. Fla. | The 392 crossover bolts on to the 55-56 engines, so unless they moved the bolt up location on the 392 blocks the 4 leg W/P should bolt onto a 392 with 392 heads. |
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| Some more engine weights
Engine Weight
Chrysler 331 Hemi 700
Chrysler 300 Poly V8 691
Chrysler 354 Poly V8 691 - 700
Chrysler 354 Hemi 720
Chrysler 392 Hemi 740
DeSoto 276-341 Poly V8 675
DeSoto 276-291 Hemi 630
DeSoto 330-345 Hemi 670
Dodge 241-325 Poly V8 645
Dodge 241-270 Hemi 580
Dodge 315-325 Hemi 610
Dodge Viper V10 716
Dodge Viper V10 (1997) 648
Dodge truck V10 816 - 836
Mopar Slant Six 475
Mopar 277-301-318 Poly "A" V8 600+ (estimate)
Mopar 273-318-340 "LA" V8 525
Mopar 360 "LA" 550
Mopar 350-361-383-400 "B" V8 620
Mopar 413-426W-440 "RB" V8 670
Mopar Street Hemi 765
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