Posted on 10/31/2018 2:41:32 PM PDT by Red Badger
Dodge has summoned another monster from the underworld.
The latest is a new 1,000 hp engine called the “Hellephant” that’s based on the brand’s Hellcat supercharged V8 and will be offered as a crate motor for custom car builders next year.
Its name is a tip of the hat to the original “Elephant” 426 Hemi V8 from the 1960s, and the new engine features an aluminum block with a bigger bore and stroke than the 376 cubic-inch Hellcat’s that brings it up to a historically appropriate 426 cubic-inches.
The engine mixes parts from the engines found in the Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye and Demon with its own high-lift cam and forged pistons. A package that includes a power control module and all of the wiring and sensors needed for installation is offered with it, and a front end accessory drive kit is also available to make the process as easy as possible. This is assuming you have a pre-1976 car to put it in, as it’s not street legal in anything newer than that.
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>From what I’ve read about chevy engines on jeep, that looks like a fair amount changing and adapting.
It was a lot of years ago so it was probably worse than I remember. I think it was making adapters for the motor mounts and machining the back end of a chevy bell housing. Oh yeah, modifying the clutch linkage and finding a clutch plate with the right spline.
I’m sure there’s more that’s been lost in time.
It’s a beautiful car that goes up to 400 HP.
Put one in front of my house and give me the keys and there are Certainly quite a number of occasions where I would use that instead of my Challenger.
(I hope it didn’t hear that!)
I remember reading a lot of chevy swaps in jeeps in the 80s 4WD magazines.
Every now and then I see one for sale that has a 350 in it.
I will probably get another crate 256 like it had but a CJ isn’t right without a V8 and headers.
At present I need to put the new fuel tank in the CJ7 and get the original spare tire carrier back from powdercoating. I was able to score a carrier with the factory latch on CL for a good price.
Payday I will probably wince and bite the bullet for an assembled windshield frame. The original is too far rusted to save. That will be the last of the needed sheetmetal.
I guess I’m just too old to be impressed.I’m as happy as a pig in slop driving my new diesel...very probably my *last* diesel.
Take the car. The woman is FAR more maintenance.
And doesn’t age as well :)
(Thank goodness there are few or no women on this thread!!)
Why didn’t they ever offer an aluminum block in the challenger? They are 10 years late.
I bought a 5.0L mustang instead of a Challenger because the Challenger is a pig.
Why didn’t they ever offer an aluminum block in the challenger? They are 10 years late.
I bought a 5.0L mustang instead of a Challenger because the Challenger is a pig.
Car is cheaper, I don’t care how you twist it the car is cheaper. And it generally doesn’t talk back either
The proper phrase is “fast cars and fast women.”
Cool
Those engines are beyond what they look like. Aluminum block wet sleeve liners, camshaft also runs 2 pumps for the Hydraulic System that comprises 2 different brake systems and the suspension system, the fasteners are unique in several of them most notably the front crank pulley and balancer, also the timing gear nut. They are shaped like an Electric Conduit Nut with the tangs on the outside, of course they are different sizes, very high tourque specs like 300 Foot Pounds. The Socket is ONLY available to RR Dealers. I had to find a steel bar 4” x 12” then make a Full Scale Drawing for the Machine Shop to make Me a Custom Socket (only $150.00 and I used to work there so I got out cheap) I only used that Socket 3 times. They don’t sell a Gasket Set to rebuild the Engine, EVERY item is sold separate ONLY from RR Dealers. Same for Rod and Main Bearings. Piston Rings are a set made by Hastings only available from RR Dealers. I broke 1 Compression Ring installing it. I was told that had to buy a whole set and they cost like $600.00 20 years ago. Finally after looking for 2 days through the Hastings Catalogue I found a set that I could buy from Hastings that had the correct size Ring to save My a$$.
The Hydraulic Systems run off the Camshaft Pumps that pressurize 2 Nitrogen filled Accumulator Spheres with 1000psi on 1 side of the Accumulators, then pressurized fluid goes to the separate Systems. Level Control Valves adust the ride heights and when the Brake Pedal is pressed that opens Flow Valves to the 2 different sets of Calipes on the Front Wheels and to Half of each Rear Caliper. The other Half of the Rear Calipers is controlled by a 5/8” bore Single Piston Non-Power Assisted Master Cylinder that is the ONLY way to Hydraulically stop a 6800 pound car. I can promise Y,All that the Master Cylinder part will BARELY DO THE JOB! (Unless You’re on a Runway with nothing in the way.)
Also the Lobes on the Camshaft for the Brake Fluid Pumps is ONLY SPLASH FED OIL. The engine sits slightly low in the rear so if the oil is 1.5 or more quarts low the Lob on the Camshaft gets NO OIL and the Camshaft is softer metal than the Pushrods for the Brake Pumps and the Lobes wear off and the Pumps don’t pump fluid anymore. SO BE SURE TO TELL YOUR BUDDY TO KEEP IT PROPERLY FILLED WITH OIL.
To fix the problem the engine must come out to remove the Camshaft. RR Dealers sold the new one for $2200.00 20 years ago. I know a place that will rebuild the Camshaft for a much better price.
I am guessing that he didn’t just pull into the Firestone station and say, “put on a new set of pads”.
Nope
Resurrect my classic car??? Perhaps I should try it in a Ford Pinto or an AMC Gremlin.
Take the car. The women will line up for ya!
I like .......
The car will always be sexy ......
Soon there will be a FR thread on an article written by a snowflake SJW about the toxic masculinity of this insanely ferocious engine.
I’ll put one in my Ford, it will be Hellaphantstang!
And tires and steering and life insurance....................
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