Chrysler DOHC Hemi

[landman]

Well thanks guys for the overwhelming response. Now I know what it is and where it came from. I was able to find the instructions. All I have of it is in the photos below. I had detailed the heads a bit & stuck them in my dio. So with those parts, and the instruction sheet as a guide I should be able to build one with other parts I have.

 

[Daddyfink]

Did that DOHC HEMI ever get past prototype stage? It was never actually made, was it? Odd that it would have been tooled up and included in a kit.

It was really a response to the Ford 427 SOHC and it was more to get that engine banned. After they banned them both, Chrysler quickly killed the program. Only two engines where made and only one complete one survived. They turned the engine over with an electric motor to check valvetrain, but they never ran on fuel. Most of the design came from an aborted INDY engine program that didn't make it. 

I would be cool to see one run and get revved up to the expected 7000 RPM capability! 

[keyser]

Fun to have scale version. One is in a Johan Superbird pro-touring I built 25yrs before protouring was a thing. Injection with stacks, all fits under hood nicely. Pretty awesome idea even if goofy combination of gear drives and belt drives. 

[Jantrix]

 Odd that it would have been tooled up and included in a kit.

I've often thought so. I'd like to thank whatever AMT engineer who said, "Hey, you know what would be cool?"

It's very well done and looks great in a model. I've recently bought another Superbee just for the engine.

[Jon Haigwood]

Yes, everyone. I made a mistake. Pardon me.

Don't we all

Been there done that

[Mark]

Did that DOHC HEMI ever get past prototype stage? It was never actually made, was it? Odd that it would have been tooled up and included in a kit.

The guys designing kits at Ertl in that period were apparently being given more opportunity to express themselves and their knowledge through their work.  It seemed like, at that time, they were trying to get something different into each new kit, and for a while they were doing just that.  The DOHC setup in the Coronet, the Stage V hemi conversion parts in the '71 Charger street machine, and the Art Morrison chassis in the Wagonrod kit are only three examples.  If you compare the "stock" and "street machine" versions of some of those newer tooling kits to one another, on second glance you'll often see a lot of little differences you may have missed at first.