At the same time, Dodge also introduced its first V8 engine – the Red Ram Hemi, a smaller version of the original design of the famed Hemi.

The pinnacle of this effort was the introduction of the Challenger sports coupe and convertible ( Dodge's entry into the " pony car " class ) in 1970, which offered everything from mild economy engines up to the wild race-ready Hemi V8 in the same package.

Featuring Chrysler's first mainstream rear-wheel drive platform since the 1980s and a revival of the Hemi V8 engine, it was a modest success.

The Ram was redesigned again for 2002 ( the Dakota in 2005 ), basically as an evolution of the original but now featuring the revival of Chrysler ’ s legendary Hemi V8 engine.

The Vega production cars ( Facel FV, later and more famously the HK500 ) appeared in 1954 using Chrysler V8 engines, at first a DeSoto Hemi engine ; the overall engineering was straightforward, with a tubular chassis, double wishbone suspension at the front and a solid driven axle at the back, as in standard American practice.

Superbirds had three engine options: the 426 Hemi V8 engine, the 440 Super Commando with a single 4-barrel carburetor, or the 440 Super Commando Six Barrel with three two-barrel carburetors.

Hemi Heads for Ford V8 1947 through today-Top to Bottom: 1 ) Ardun Head for Ford Flathead engine | Flathead 2 ) Mickey Thompson | M / T Heads for Ford FE engine | FE 3 ) Ford SOHC Heads for Ford FE engine | FE 4 ) Ford 3V Head for Calliope 5 ) Ford " Semi Hemi " Head for Ford 385 engine | Boss 429 6 ) Ford Racing Hemi Head

The current-production " Hemi " V8, with its pinched chamber, does not have true hemispherical combustion chambers despite the name ; rather, it bears a closer resemblance to the mid-1950s polyspherical chamber, which Chrysler engineers developed as a lower-cost alternative head for their V8 engines.

Chrysler introduced breakerless ignition in mid-1971 as an option for its 340 V8 and the 426 Street Hemi.

It is powered by the 5. 7 L Hemi V8.

Chrysler's interest in six cylinder vehicles began to wane in favor of the popular FirePower Hemi V8.

The 1957 New Yorker had a powerful Hemi V8 engine rated at.

The New Yorkers this year had a new Golden Lion V8, new tailfins, new front end, and no Hemi.

* R: Hemi V8: 1970-71 / SAE gross, 1971 SAE net.

The SRT8 received a new 392-cubic-inch ( 6. 4 L ) Hemi V8.

* The 2005 model year Chrysler 300C, launched in 2004, the top-of-the-line Chrysler 300, usually outfitted with a 5. 7L Hemi V8 Magnum engine.

* R: Hemi V8: 1970-71 / SAE gross, 1971 SAE net.

Of special note to collectors is the optional 426 CID Hemi V8 engine, which only 70 of the 503 Daytonas carried.

The V8 engine was Chrysler's first-generation Hemi V8 with a displacement of and developing.

For an extra $ 714, Plymouth would install a 426 CID Hemi rated at and of torque.

Its 440 engine produced and of torque at 3200 rpm, very similar numbers to the Hemi and at a lower engine speed.

This meant the cheaper 440 6bbl was nearly as fast as the 426 Hemi, at least up to highway speeds.

According to Road Test magazine, performance was around 0 to in 5. 5 seconds, 1 / 4 mile in 14. 3 seconds at 104 mph with the Hemi.

At the top, and ordered by just 93 buyers, was the mighty 426 Hemi, rated at.

With the revised 6. 4-Liter engine, Chrysler engineers cited a quarter mile (~ 400 m ) time of 12. 4 seconds at – bettering the outgoing 6. 1-Liter Hemi by 0. 8 seconds, although that figure has varied wildly between automotive magazines.

One experimental Ferguson FF was built in 1968 with a 7 litre ( 426 cubic inch ) Hemi engine imported from Chrysler in the U. S. Further Hemi engine equipped models were not built, due to the limits of the suspension at extremely high speeds, and the cost of importing the Hemi engine into Britain was deemed too great.

The term six pack denoted the triple side-draught Weber 2BBL carburettors with which the 265 Hemi engine-in option E37, option E38, and later option E49-produced levels of power unheard of on a naturally aspirated six-cylinder at the time.

It gained an optional " Red Ram " Hemi Engine and set over 100 land speed records at the Bonneville Salt Flats.

The 2009 Jeep Grand Cherokee is available with an improved 5. 7 L Hemi engine rated at and of torque.

In the early fifties the Maserati was converted to Chrysler Hemi power and in this configuration Cade won, among may other events, the 1954 SCCA National Formula Libre Championship and the Seneca Cup at Watkins Glen in 1958.

Power output reached a high point in 1957 at 300 hp ( 224 kW ) and 415 ft. lbf ( 563 Nm ), but the Lincoln still lagged in horsepower and torque behind the Chrysler Hemi 392, used on the Imperial, Chrysler New Yorker and 300C, and in horsepower behind the 3-2bbl version of the Cadillac 365, used on the Eldorado.

The 1968 model only came as a two-door coupe, with two engine options, the base 383 Magnum, and the 426 Hemi rated at.

* New Hemi technical article at AutoSpeed

In addition, he made his Craftsman Truck Series debut at Martinsville Speedway, finishing 32nd in the # 04 Dodge Hemi entry for Bobby Hamilton Racing.

Unlike the highest rpm big-block Chevy and Hemi motors, the Ram Air IV utilized hydraulic lifters.

But his tastes were botanical, and to extend his knowledge of exotic plants he travelled to Egypt in 1580 as physician to George Emo or Hemi, the Venetian consul in Cairo.

Then, in 1964 the new Chrysler 426 Hemi engine so dominated the series in a Plymouth Belvedere " Sport Fury ", the homologation rules were changed so that 1, 000 of any engine and car had to be sold to the public to qualify as a stock part, instead of just 500.

This made the 426 Hemi unavailable for the 1965 season.

The Chrysler Air Raid Siren used a 180 hp V-8 Hemi engine to drive the siren and weighed 5543 lb.

: Hemi woman blong saiens.

In 1969 he adopted the Māori version of his name, Hemi, and moved to Jerusalem.

The war ended shortly after the tests, and the hemi V16 was never mass-produced, although the basic design and valvetrain setup live on in today's Hemi V8s.

Chrysler replaced its straight-8 with its famous Hemi V-8 for 1951.

The largest modern passenger-car straight-sixes are the 4. 2 L powerplants found in several Jaguars and AMCs, the 4. 3 L Hemi Six, the 4. 0 TVR Speed Six, the 4. 0 Ford Barra, the 4. 1 Chevrolet 250, the 4. 2 Chevrolet Vortec 4200, 4. 2 L Toyota Land Cruiser ( Diesel ), 4. 9 Ford, 4. 5 and 4. 8 Nissan, 4. 8 Chevrolet, and the 5. 0L of Hudson H-145 ( produced until 1957 ).