Ace-Garageguy

Thanks. Much appreciated.

The Dodge Red Ram "hemi" engine was introduced in 1953 with a displacement of 241 cubic inches, about 120 HP. '55 saw it grow to 270 cu. in. For '56 the deck was raised and displacement went up to 315. In '57, it grew again to 325. Far as I recall, it was available across the entire Dodge car lineup. The last high-performance D-500 twin-carb version made about 310 HP. It's important to remember that it's different from the "poly" engine available somewhat concurrently, though the "poly" and Red Ram share the same tall deck block. The Red Ram hemi has the smallest exterior dimensions of the Mopar hemi engine lineup, which is why it was used in Barris' Ala Kart. The first issue AMT Ala Kart kit, and the later '29 Ford kits that include it, represent it roughly scale-correct. The retooled Ala Kart engine is ridiculously UNDER scale, stupidly about 1/32, in a 1/25 scale model.

^^^ Funny. I started to post several of those, but figgered I'd trigger someone's delicate sensibilities and get suspended again for politics or religion or racism or language. Guess you have to know somebody.

Pretty cool project. Should be fun seeing it come together. Love that second photo, too. A shiny '36 Ford cabriolet, a 20 cent BBQ sandwich, and a 15 cent piece of pie. If there's a heaven, it looks like that.

Diagnostic or antibody tests?

No. It's a tooling product. Carvable, machinable, available in several densities.

Or maybe the builders all grew up in the everybody-gets-a-trophy environment... Praised Regardless of Outcome.

And apparently it's accelerating so hard, the front wheels can't keep up with the rest of the car.

I was hoping somebody would post pix. Very convincing, and exactly what I need to get a hung-fire build moving again. Thanks.

Not listed as "pro built", but somebody paid almost 50 bucks for it.

Wow. That is real art. Your ability to capture surface, texture, material, weathering, and aging effects is brilliant.

Most of my builds are long-time-ago started threads. And most of my old photos are hosted on P-bucket. As I will be revisiting these old ones as time permits, it would be nice to be able to replace the sometimes unreliable (down as I write this) P-bucket hosted photos with fresh ones. Not too much point continuing to bother otherwise.

THANKS for the additional info. I have a long standing fascination with CCKWs, M-34/35s, and M-135/211s, amassing piles of reference material and kits to get into once I finally get all the way retired. Almost bought a running M-135 back in '95 for $1500, but was put off at the potential cost of rebuilding the automatic gearbox when the time came. I had been told by "experts" it was a big Allison, and only years later did I find out it was actually an old-school GM iron-case Hydramatic. Had I known at the time, she'd be sitting outside today.