[Shotimes] OT - Dodge's New Hemi?

BJamesjr@aol.com BJamesjr@aol.com
Tue, 05 Nov 2002 10:19:55 -0500


> Is the new 5.7L motor (w/ 3xxHP, wow) that Dodge is calling a "Hemi" really a Hemi (with hemispherical heads)?  Or is this another marketing ploy which 99 percent of Americans will 
> buy hook, line & sinker.  

The Dodge display at the TX State Fair had a cutaway engine.  I checked it out carefully and the head design looks very similar to the old Hemi design.  It has a big intake manifold on top for the fuel injection system but otherwise looks like the old engines.  I actually expected something more modern, maybe OHC or 4-valves.  (If they put 4 valves in it and OHC's, then it would almost be a SHO engine.)