Almost missed posting this today.
It is 4/13 ...
Calling all motorheads, gearheads and people that love cars, racing and the smell of gasoline at the drag strip. Not to mention laid back car shows on a Saturday afternoon.
I grew up during the late 60's and drag racing was the thing in my area. MoPar's were my ride and I drool over the old stuff now.
Here is the story on the early "orange monsters" and the famous Max Wedge engines, with cross ram manifold and two 4 barrel carbs dumping a ton of fuel into that engine.
Here is a picture I took at a car show with a restored 1962 Dodge Dart with the 413 Max Wedge. This car run S/S A at the drags in those days. ( Super Stock automatic )
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Here is the story behind those famous Max Wedge engines.
4/13: All hail the 413 Max Wedge
https://www.hagerty.com/media/automo...413-max-wedge/
It is 4/13 ...
Calling all motorheads, gearheads and people that love cars, racing and the smell of gasoline at the drag strip. Not to mention laid back car shows on a Saturday afternoon.
I grew up during the late 60's and drag racing was the thing in my area. MoPar's were my ride and I drool over the old stuff now.
Here is the story on the early "orange monsters" and the famous Max Wedge engines, with cross ram manifold and two 4 barrel carbs dumping a ton of fuel into that engine.
Here is a picture I took at a car show with a restored 1962 Dodge Dart with the 413 Max Wedge. This car run S/S A at the drags in those days. ( Super Stock automatic )
20180316_130346.jpg
Here is the story behind those famous Max Wedge engines.
4/13: All hail the 413 Max Wedge
Imagine this: It’s the ’60s, a fresh decade of optimism, and new competition across Detroit has you designing the successor to your employer’s hemispherical V-8, which was once ground-breaking but now is limited by displacement. What’s your solution?
Chrysler introduced the Wedge in 1958 to counter pressure from Pontiac, Ford and Chevrolet, and this engine departed from the Pentastar brand’s notorious family of Hemis. The major change was in the shape of the combustion chamber, which dumped the Hemi’s salad bowl chambers and splayed valves (along with the associated pair of rocker shafts for each head) for what we now would call a more “conventional,” wedge-shaped combustion chamber with the intake and exhaust valves arranged in a line.
Chrysler introduced the Wedge in 1958 to counter pressure from Pontiac, Ford and Chevrolet, and this engine departed from the Pentastar brand’s notorious family of Hemis. The major change was in the shape of the combustion chamber, which dumped the Hemi’s salad bowl chambers and splayed valves (along with the associated pair of rocker shafts for each head) for what we now would call a more “conventional,” wedge-shaped combustion chamber with the intake and exhaust valves arranged in a line.
The “Maximum Performance Wedge” was introduced in Dodge and Plymouth models as the Ramcharger 413 and Super Stock 413, respectively. Chrysler distilled the past four years of 413 competition experience into this feisty Wedge, first by taking the massive cross-ram intake and compressing it into short-runner design that improved top-end horsepower; the standard long-runner, in comparison, showed a propensity for low-end torque.
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