Quote: Thanks for the link 'D', I hadn't known of this one before.
I found the page with the big tach, so cranked up the volume to the max & hit 'start engine'
Bloody marvelous. I've since landed back on planet Datsun but it was a lovely visit.

Max volume on speakers required. for those of us who still remember dinosours.

There is a whole audio gallery of revving hemis in there too - very nice.

E-Mail sent to all who have send me their contact information.

If you should had mail also please contact me.

Yeah its a banboozling site the audio has some kind of infrasound that hits your inner senses in an inexplicable manner.

There are several hemi like 4 cylinder engines that I really admire also like the following which could help in getting the best of this project.

No 1 - Renault 807 pushrod hemi WRC long time winner

No 2 - 800+ HP drag boosted Toyota 2tc and 3tc pushrod hemi

No 3 - all alloy hemi speedway slant 4

No 4 - All alloy aircooled NSU Prinz TT

rest are great little hemi engines but overhead cams.

No 1. - Fiat Twin cam WRC long time winner

No 2. - Hillman imp Coventry climax

No 3. - Toyota 2tg or 3tge

No 4. - Honda civic Gen 1 all alloy 1.3

No 5. - Chrysler galant saturn 1.6 WRC

Info:

The modeling is going to take some more time than firstly promised, but this is in favour for all of us.

I'll send mail on the next week when I have made a visiting trip to the manufacturer of our masterpiece.

D, I have a toyota 5K motor with hemi combustion chambers, let me know if you would like some photos or information.

If you can I'm sure they would give a good info how toyota has done it.

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Thought gen 1's where 1.2?
Talk about picky......

with all this work wouldnt a twin cam option be better

I think that doing a minor redesign on an existing head is going to be a lot less work & a lot less money than designing a whole new head with DOHC.
Something that looks like a Offenhauser twin cammer would be wonderfull, but the cost would shunt me right out of the game, & as Feral & others have discovered, geting a drive up the front of a A series to a cammer head while still driving the oil pump, distributor, & water pump is not so easy without it becoming a big drama all by itself.

I think that the factory probably came up with the best compromise under the circumstances at the time. It's not like it was a slug, performance wise.