take the fat ass scoop off and it mite look a bit better

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BTW, the "steam" is nos, not h20.

if it is nos how come its spraying it in the air?

to prime the system, and to keep bottle pressure/temperature constant before use

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Plus..it looks good. Certainly sounds mean.. But it does remind me of the noises that the local public buses make

DD..I like your Neon comment, although they go pretty good when hotted up, so I've seen in some American Small car mags..

Chris

I'm a Big fan I Nitrous Purgers,
makes me wanna go out and get Nitrous fitted just to purge it (adds to the wank factor)

Cheers
Damo

When it comes to serious V8 horsepressure, just remember

If it aint MoPar, it's below par.
Chris

below par is good, in golf shoooting in the red numbers then

what exactly is mopar??? ive searched and searched and cant seem to work it out, sorta seems like just a parts company.

Mopar means Chrysler corporation vehicles: Dodge, Chrysler, Plymouth.

M--mostly
O--old
P--parts
A--and
R--rust

Kegs
At least you figured out that "Par" is short for "parts."

Each major motor vehicle manufacturer has a parallel company that services parts fot the makes of vehicles that it produces.

For GM, it's Nasco, [National Service Co]
For Ford, it's FoMoCo [Ford Motor Co.]
For Chrysler Corporation, It's MoPar [Motor Parts]
While each of the Chrysler corp divisions produced diferent branded vehicles, like Chrysler, Imperial, Dodge, DeSoto, Plymouth, & Fargo, they were supplied with parts through MoPar, in MoPar branded packaging. Thus, all Chrysler corp vehicles became grouped under the overall heading of "Mopars" [small "p"]

Wubbits,....you're a dipstick. Mopar means quality engineering, which is why an engine design that was created by Chrysler corp engineers in the late 40's, & produced from 1951, is still the basis of the most incredible, high horsepower automotive type engines the world has ever seen, the standard of the automotive industry. This design is still the one to beat, & you can still buy a third generation Hemi in a new Dodge to this very day.
If it aint Mopar, it's below par. Thats all you need to remember.

pitty the motors went into some of the most ugliest cars ......only very few americans cars that looked decent like sqaure tanks.

ss camaro nice, mustang series few others that were good. the corvette Zo6! thats a car....

go the Aussie Muscule cars!

thanks dodgeman, ur info always seems to clear away any doubt.

B120dat
It's a pity that you are not familiar with Dodge Chargers, Challengers, & that Tijuana tennis shoe, the Dodge Viper. Also Plymouth Prowlers, Barracudas & a wide range of other cars that the corporation produced, all of which were quite capable of looking after themselves on the track, or the street.
If you want to see ugly, have a look at some of the designs that were produced by various Japanese makers, including Nissan, since the 50's. No single maker, or country, has a monopoly on ugly.

Like some other manufacturers, Chrysler Corp. produced some fabulous classics, along with the bread & butter range that did not have cutting edge styling, or infinite lifespan, as their primary reason for being, yet even the less pretty cars have their virtues.

Lets face it, even our much loved little Datsuns were not designed to be around 30 years later. That they still are, is a testament to the engineers that designed them, as well as those of us that have championed them for decades.

Kegs
You're welcome, & BTW, thanks for the kind words you wrote about me in another thread. I wont forget them.

im familar with but i just dont like them..... bland looking american cars then. the CUDA was awsome one 7.0L v8! the motors they put in yeah great, huge v8s cant beat huge v8 sound !

very intresting reading for you Dodgeman, the New unquie cars has a speacil booklet on all the american cars, info, prices and history. its a good read, im sure you will like it

MOPAR OR NO CAR!!!
EXCEPT, dattos . Which I can afford to run every day. A tricked up mopar drinks enough fuel to make bill gates tremble.
To say that mopars are ugly is HERESY!!!!!!!!!
I own two mopars and two dattos, so the datto in the above photo is truely the best of both worlds.
Incidently, I read in MOPAR ACTION when the neons first came out, for a laugh they rented one and took it to the drag strip for the day.Fitted it up with some nitros oxide and got it running low 13s . Then they took it back to the rental place "running a bit rough" after a massive back fire through the intake which literaly sent a fire ball out the sides of the bonnet!

B120dat
Thanks for the info.
My Datsun, & my Dodges are in two completely diferent parts of the automotive spectrum, & i love 'em all. They are like children, completely diferent, but i don't want to be without either of them.
Mopar performance does not take a back seat to anyone.

i still dont understand how ppl can call a car a mopar if it only has mopar parts on it?

Kegs
The cars are built with Chrysler parts. For tax & other business reasons, the parts organisations of the various carmakers are a separare business operation. The MoPar operation supplies "genuine" spare parts for ALL Chrysler corp vehicles through the various dealers.

The Mopar [small "p"] name is a generic term that, like MoPar branded parts, covers all the makes, or divisions, of Chrysler corp. Instead if going into the details of describing your 1956 DeSoto Sportsman with its 345 cube DeSoto Adventurer hemi engine, it's just a Mopar, meaning it's one of the products produced by Chrysler Corp.

It's a bit like saying "Detroit iron" to genericly describe all US made cars, or Pommy [Limey] s*1t to describe all British built vehicles [Well, some say it] except Mopar is a little more specific.

If the Z car above runs a 440 cube big block, or a little 273 cube LA engine, it's not necessary to go into the detail of what the donor car might have been, all you need to know is that it is a xxx cube Mopar. That's enough to say it all.

Nasco, FoMoCo, EnFo,[English Ford] Mowog,[B.M.C.] & others just didn't sound right, so these names have not been used to genericly describe the products of the other car manufacturers, but if the names had been a bit more catchy, they might have. been.

P.S. This is a Datsun site, so just to make things perfectly clear, i love my 1000 coupe. Its a good FUN car, complete with whatever Datsun / Nissan engine i use in it.

so its sorta the same as calling a done up commonwhoare a straight out hsv ?

Kegs
No.

damn.
im talking like one that has been built using holden special vehicle parts.

Kegs
Commodore, Kadet, Vauxhall, Impala, Firebird, Riviera,... they are all GM products, but they are not generally described as Nasco's.
You gotta learn to think a bit bigger than just one division of a major carmaker.

i plain dont understand hehe, nor do i understand how in the states their funny cars all look exactly the same but have dodge or mustang or wateva written above the windscreen i dont see how they class em as different bodies when they are the same with just different engines. i still think they are very cool especially the oakley dodge hemi powered funny car

Quote:Yes, the racing industry is wacky. It's just big business, with "big" marketing. Perhaps that explains part of it.

You disparaged Commodores ... well the marketers of Top Fuel are leveraging that Ford vs GM mentality and people are watching the races ... so they have accomplished their goal (to sell advertising).

Quote:Haha in many cases the engines are also the same. In Top Fuel they are all running engines designed after the chrysler 426. In open-wheel racing, GM and Ford are both running Cosworth engines ...

It's kind of like Nissan Australia calling the B210 a 120Y (what does that mean?), which was only topped for "doesn't make sense"-ability by Nissan North America calling the B310 a "210" while at the same time calling the fwd Datsun a "310".

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Shows what type of people watch T/F is the US.TFX vs TFX.

There you go Chris.

OK, so wer'e way off the general topic of Datsuns here, but this is my other love.[Mopar Muscle]

Thanks Killer1200. When the rocker covers are wider than most inline engines, & the plug leads go down the middle like that, you just know it's somethin special.

A mate sent me some pictures of his newly completed car at the Big River run in South Australia held a couple of months ago.

He recently retired from a top fuel career & sold the racers, but not the spares, so when he put together a street car, he found himself triping over all this stuff.
To get it off the floor, he assembled it into an engine, then figured he may as well use it to save a buck.

This is it.

It's a Keith Black 'water block' with stroker crank, twin plug heads, & twin magnetos by the look of it. Thats a 1471 blower up there & the whole thing is basicly a top fuel engine, on carbs with a street cam.
It is well over 500 cubic inches, but I forget just how much over. It has all the fruit including alloy rods etc. etc. & yes, it's actually street registered.
All alloy, all Hemi.
I keep telling him that he has gotta stop sniffing those Nitro fumes.

It looks impressive, runs as good as it looks, but is a handfull to drive. Just toooo much grunt for this little piggy, so I'll just stick with my 'little' 325 cube iron hemi.

Now when some fool pulls up alongside, casually leans over & says 'That thing got a hemi?' he just says 'WHAT? Are you blind?'


Oh well, at least it cleaned up the floor.

my neighbor's got himself a jeep rubicon and argues it's got 75% german parts, and so i tell him he's got 75% unreliability ...

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Yeah thats the worlds most powerful NA mopar making some 1700+hp 800IC IHRA pro stock engine.

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Who are we talking about ? Cowin ?

Quote:Kirby.

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Like this?


Hemi-head Engine in a Datsun 1200

Nahh, it is Toyotaaaarg, so it is less. It is just one of the 'inlines' refered to previously.
[What? Me? Biased?, surely you jest]

but in saying that the 3tc toyota can make serious power too, have a look at Toyota3tc.com

and yeah read that link, good stuff.

Haven't heard of Nasco before, anyone have more info on it?


I'm guessing "Mopar Powered 280z" means that Datsun has a Chrysler engine, although I can't find any more details on that particular 280Z
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Chrysler Valiant Hemi


If it had a V8 hemi would the bonnet even close? It might look like this 1200:

after talking to my co-worker, mopar as he referred to it meant "more power" but in back east slang (he was from kentucky). I still questioned it but hey......