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If you're in the market for a Chrysler with a Hemi under the hood, you might be wondering if it requires premium gas. Here's ...
A seasoned Mopar wrencher had his first engine blow up on the dyno in his 21-year career; a piston disintegrated into the oil ...
Stellantis gained 10,000 orders for the Ram 1500 HEMI during the first 24 hours of its official return. As Ram trucks have ...
Muscle cars are as American as baseball and apple pie. Over the last 60 years several Asian and European automakers have ...
The Hemi name is derived from the hemispherical shape of the combustion chamber that Chrysler introduced on a V8 in 1951, and ...
Dodge's Hemi engines are known to be performance tyrants. Why though? Here's a look at what makes them killers.
When Chrysler introduced its Hemi-headed FirePower 331-cubic-inch V8 in 1951, it made 180 hp, a brutal figure for the era. Hemi engines then spread to other divisions, from the lowly DeSoto to the ...
Based on the bones of Chrysler’s first-generation Hemi engine from 1951 to 1958, HOT ROD had a pretty good sense that the new version from 1964 was going to kick ass.
It started out as a FirePower engine back in the 50’s and for 35 years Chrysler has intermittently used the Hemi V-8 engine, short for hemispherical combustion chamber with dome-shaped ...
While the HEMI V8 design was the first of its kind for Chrysler, it was also the company's first V8 to use overhead valves, a departure from the customary flat head with valves in the engine block.
Dodge’s Hemi engine set its roots in absurdity. During the Second World War, the U.S. Government contracted Chrysler to develop a 2,000-horsepower airplane engine that could reliably produce ...
But by 1955, that had increased to 300 horsepower in the 392-cubic inch (6.4-liter) HEMI engine found in the Chrysler 300C. For the middle of the 1950s, this was ludicrously powerful.