1 of 1 Hemi

[69monaco]

 

[LocuMob]

We went to look at a Duster many years ago, my roommate and I, and after looking at the car, the owner gave us a tour of his yard. The highlight was his '48 Lincoln he had. It was very nice original condition, but needed a resto. Well, parked out front next to an old Hudson, he had an RV with a strange engine in it. Claimed it was Chrysler but he had never seen anything like it. We glanced at it and passed it off as being interesting, but that was about it. Two years later and Tom Hoover is reunited with his Barracuda, with the Ball Stud Hemi.
"Scott, that's the engine that was in the RV!"
Holy crap Batman! Too bad we had no clue about what it was. They were known to be installed in RV's during their development, did we maybe see a Unicorn of the Mopar world? We tried to remember the name of the town, to no avail. We like to think we found one, and let it get away due to our lack of knowledge at the time. At least it makes for a good memory! And it was all part of the chase, the best part of Mopardom, next to driving a Mopar!

 

[Newport 66]

That's a great story!!! Things long forgotten or passed by.....where's that dang time machine...lol

 

[hemi71x]

Not to dispute your story, or get into an internet fight.
But where did you hear an engine like that was ever installed in an RV during development?
I never heard of, or read anything, like that before in my ownership of hemi's, and being an enthusiast, all my adult life.

Phantom Mopar Muscle: Chrysler’s Ball-Stud Hemi V8

 

[LocuMob]

Not to dispute your story, or get into an internet fight.
But where did you hear an engine like that was ever installed in an RV during development?
I never heard of, or read anything, like that before in my ownership of hemi's, and being an enthusiast, all my adult life.

Phantom Mopar Muscle: Chrysler’s Ball-Stud Hemi V8

I can't recall at this time, but saw it somewhere in print. It was just before cameras were in every cell phone. I can't back it any more than my memory tells me, I just know what I saw.

 

[CBODY67]

What you might have seen in the RV was a RB with the motorhome heads and such on it. Individual exhaust ports, rather than the center siamesed ports. My machine shop associate got a set of those to redo back in the earlier '90s. A younger customer brought them in, along with the carb (for a rebuild). I got the carb number and it was for a MHC RB440, circa 1972. I'd read of them, but never saw any until that set. Normal B/RB intake ports and configuration. An A-block style combustion chamber, but with the separate exhaust ports.

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67

 

[cm23uoc]

"he bores it, cause if you want to race and another ball stud Hemi shows up, you want to smoke him." Priceless.

 

[LocuMob]

What you might have seen in the RV was a RB with the motorhome heads and such on it. Individual exhaust ports, rather than the center siamesed ports. My machine shop associate got a set of those to redo back in the earlier '90s. A younger customer brought them in, along with the carb (for a rebuild). I got the carb number and it was for a MHC RB440, circa 1972. I'd read of them, but never saw any until that set. Normal B/RB intake ports and configuration. An A-block style combustion chamber, but with the separate exhaust ports.

Just some thoughts,
CBODY67

Nope, wasn't an industrial RB.

 

[hemi71x]

Nope, wasn't an industrial RB.

You do know that Chevy 396's were used in motor home chassis during that time period.
I'll say it, without proof, pictures, "where you read about an ball stud hemi engine being installed in an RV" you are trying to start your own urban myth, legend.
There has been many, numerous articles written about the ball stud, and i really doubt anything more than test fitting one of those things in some Mopar passenger car engine bay, back in the day, ever took place.
That engineering "experiment" didn't last for long, and was dropped from further development rather quickly.

 

[LocuMob]

You do know that Chevy 396's were used in motor home chassis during that time period.
I'll say it, without proof, pictures, "where you read about an ball stud hemi engine being installed in an RV" you are trying to start your own urban myth, legend.
There has been many, numerous articles written about the ball stud, and i really doubt anything more than test fitting one of things in some Mopar passenger car engine bay, back in the day, ever took place.
That engineering "experiment" didn't last for long, and was dropped from further development rather quickly.

The engine had Chrysler markings on it. It was a long time ago and no cameras in every phone, there weren't many people who had cell phones at that time. As I said, I can't say 100% I saw a ball stud Hemi, but I sure saw something weird. I'll try to find the article I saw the mention of motorhome and the B.S.H. but I don't have every article committed to memory. Would make a good winter project.

 

[hemi71x]

Let me politely post a reply here if i may.
Think about this if you would.
Why in the world would Chrysler Engineering, Development, ever want to put a ball stud hemi, in a rv chassis?
That is so far out of reality, it makes no sense at all.
That engine was thought of for passenger car applications, no trucks, no rv's.
Chrysler engineers weren't going to ship an engine off to some coach builder to put onto a chassis, and then build the rv around all that, like they do.
Ok, you saw something, who knows, but there's no proof in the pudding.
I once saw Big Foot taking a dump in the Northern California forest, but no proof of that either, as my camera wasn't with me that day. lol.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

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[hemi71x]

Hey, you saw him too.
Holy s#*t.

 

[69monaco]

Could it be a modified Chrysler Marine engine...….?

 

[hemi71x]

Could it be a modified Chrysler Marine engine...….?

Who knows.
Your guess could be as good as mine, or the op's.

 

[68PK21 440.6bbl]

 

[70bigblockdodge]

It ain't a Mopar engine if it does not have rocker shafts, period. Yes, that means the pos Magnum motors. Might as well be a 385 series Ford or a BB Chevy engine. Go look in a BB Chevy high end race engine and it will be on T&D mini shafts. Those studded rocker arms don't work with stiff valve springs. So a 400 wedge head works better in the long run, that's why there is only one of the ball studs in the world.

 

[pomonamissel]

what about this one .

 

[pomonamissel]

that ball n stud rocker assembly was a less costly production head . but this twin camm'd version should have won out .

 

[hemi71x]

The "Doomsday" hemi.