If I remember correctly, the early Hemi's were also called "whales", the 426
was called the elephant. Quite a bit of weight can be lost off the early
Hemis by putting an aluminum intake on it and losing the exhaust manifolds.
Sure, they're heavy, but mostly in the right places ;-) That's why they make
great blower motors...
Scott Monfort
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Those old polys weren't so light either. As I recall:
392 hemi 750 lbs.
426 hemi 700 lbs
440 650 lbs
383 625 lbs
318 poly 600 lbs
340 wedge 530 lbs
Slant 6 475 lbs
I have a 426 hemi Charger and a big block wedge 64 Polara. Same cubes
(434). Hemi is stock; the wedge has Edelbrock heads and intake, .500 lift
solid cam, and 750 Holley. Modified wedge and stock hemi make about the
same power. I wouldn't call either of them slugs, down low or anywhere
else. I put drag radials on the hemi because I was tired of going sideways
in low gear. About to do the same for the Polara.
As said, a 392 can be lightened with aluminum. A friend of mine is swapping
a slant 6/904 for a 440/727. He weighed both complete assemblies. With
aluminum heads, intake and water pump, lightweight starter, and aluminum A/C
compressor on the 440, he only picked up 90 pounds over the slant 6 (and 40
lbs of that was from the extra weight of the 727 trans).
BTW, Nathan that's a really solid looking 56.
Curtis French
56 Belvedere club sedan
59 Coronet 2 dr hardtop
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