DODGE RED RAM "CACKLEFEST" TURN UP THE VOLUME!

[Deorametalworks]

I've got a 241 Red Ram Hemi...I hope it sounds as good as that someday!

[the1onlyteagro]

I want that in my Ram

[macaroofor]

I've got a 1956 270 that is in my 74 triumph spitfire. wanting to give the motor more hp along with a little lope. cant seem to find much in the after market products. can you help wayneisfree@yahoo.com 318-461-1821

[earlyhemibill]

@macaroofor Try Hot Heads. I think someone is making new cams for these motors. Go to the H.A.M.B. forum and you'll find just about everything you need there. Right now I'm modifying a 241 3-duece intake for bigger carbs. I think they're still available new. Bill

[earlyhemibill]

@macaroofor PS. Those motors have terrible compression-around 7.2-1. Get some good slugs from Venolia at around 10-1 and that will really get the motor going. Bill

[justforever96]

Is that a real D-500 engine? Aren't those like really rare to be turing into drag motors? Or is it just the D-500 cylinder head on a regular Red Ram? Even if it's just the head, they didn't make very many of them, I don't think.

[Ajacques8000]

here's a quick idea for all the people posting recently: Take your political bullshit and cry about how shitty america is somewhere else for fucks sake. This vid is about a HEMI, not that fag bush or obama

[raginroadrunner]

Obama melting down???in yur dreams..at least he can speak and not murder the absolute hell out of the English language..and the George Bush drug store cowboy routine did us no god dammed good...it just pissed off a lot of people all over the world.

[ted850760]

@raginroadrunner Sorry...he soesn't even read a teli promter well

[Wildkkat1]

@raginroadrunner 57 states & corpse-man......Bugwit..

[aminimaleffort]

@david1513

The Stellite process was developed my Elwood Haynes, not Ford Motor company. Stellite is not suitable for machining so you did not have a crankshaft made from it. Like many hard metals it fractures easily. So exactly which alloy of steel did you use to make your crankshaft made from "Timkin" steel.

You need to finish highschool, get a job, move our from your mommy and daddies house. Then you can buy a car.

[aminimaleffort]

@david1513

Here is my address and name, you give it to the FBI,

they probably don't work outside the usa, right? You might need to use your contacts at the CIA.

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[554687858]

@david1513 How do you bore a 241 out to 500?

[aminimaleffort]

@david1513 f

red line on big blocks is 6700 is it?

[grizzleybearz282004]

im kinda still new with dodge im realy a gm guy i didnt know the hemi was around in the 1950s i though that was a 60s and 70s thing

[Chevypower265]

Amazing Engine! But I'd say the ole girl got pretty hot with no water in it. :/

[sniegaviirs24]

you are lucky man :)

[554687858]

I had one. It was a 241 ci. It had Jahns pistons, an isky with a holley on top. Got it out of a junk yard in Belmont, Calif. in 1963 for fifty bucks. The good old days. Gone forever.

[hwickerman]

@554687858 not gone,last month i bought a 241 from a recycle yard for $125.

[554687858]

@hwickerman Jeez, it's good to know that such a thing is still possible. And at a price that's unbeatable. I need to know - what are your plans for it? Also, how do you go about getting parts? In 1963, it was easy. Just go down to your local parts store and either it was handed to you over the counter or ordered from the supplier (a wait of maybe a week). I imagine it must be a different animal today. I do miss those days...

[hwickerman]

@554687858 not gone,last month i bought a 241 from a recycle yard for $125.

[ExUSSailor]

That is a thing of pure beauty!

[174x5]

Dodge made Red Ram Hemis. KB10GL's correct, all were 241 cubes & only for 2-3 years.

Desoto made Firedome. There were at least two different displacements and the biggest was about 360 cubes until 1957, maybe a few left overs in early '58.

Chrysler made Firepower 1951-1958 & sold a few '59. Industrial and marine engines may have been in 1959 too. 1951-1955 were 331 cubes. 1956 & '57were 354 cubes. Then until 1959 were 392 cubes.

[554687858]

@174x5 I had one few have heard of. It was a '58 fury Golden Commando with a 350 ci. wedge and dual AFB's. Probably worth a fortune now...now that I no longer own it.

[WillysWoodPile]

--- Could I clean your shop please? I'll do a good job.

[galaxie63punk]

i like them all but 427 cammer is king

[MalliganTheUFO]

It wanted to eat that poster!!

[raginroadrunner]

In 1953 Ford and GM had their heads up their asses. They had no idea that this engine design would never be surpassed. Ford survived and GM and Chrysler bit the big one. GM went down because they built junk. Chrysler went down because the American peoploe were too freakin stupid to realize that Chrysler was so far ahead and they were all to dumb to connect the dots. I saw it all. Go Mopar

[aminimaleffort]

@raginroadrunner

that does not make sense " Chrysler went down because... "

[raginroadrunner]

@aminimaleffort ...Chrysler suffered because of the buying publics inability to recognize good engineering. Chrysler had better engines and drivetrtains and that is becoming more prevalent today other than any time in automotive history.

[aminimaleffort]

@raginroadrunner

is that why mopar racers use powerglide and TH400 transmissions and Ford 9 inch rear ends?

[raginroadrunner]

@aminimaleffort ..their is absolutely no advantage with a slopglide or a t 400..it's all pure horseshit. The 9" is another issue. This one Ford got right. It is the best ever and the most copied. Mopar guys get pissed when they see a GM ignition module on my 440, but it works and only costs $20.00. Still Mopar has an advantage, their engines are durable and produce good power.

[aminimaleffort]

@raginroadrunner

powerglide transmission are in all winning cars that require factory configuration transmissions.

TH400 is the strongest factory transmission due to the center support in the rear of the case and like the Powerglide, bellhousings are made to fit Ford and Chrysler. Look and see how many racing parts you can get for a 727 or tramsmission.

[raginroadrunner]

@aminimaleffort ..might be..haven't run Mopars for years..just Ford with C4's..will take about anything...

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner It's also a matter of availability and cost, too. I'm a bit of a purist, but I understand why this happens. In regards to axles, I'd run a 9.25 over a Phord axle. It's also easier to service because it has a removeable cover.

I don't think there's any real difference between the engines any more. I do think that Detroit could learn something from the way the new GTR is built, and in the attention to detail it receives, and apply it to their own performance cars.

[raginroadrunner]

@raginroadrunner ..I use a GM module on my Ford 460, my Ford 351 C and my 440 Roadrunner...compared to an MSD for $150...the GM does just as good a job and yes there is a Ford 9" going in my Roadrunner also..it is the best deal going..RR

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner Chrysler, like Ford and GM, had its share of hits and misses and no one company can say that they've been consistantly on the positive side.

[wildpoly318]

427 SOHC is a very nice motor,but the seven foot chain that came with them wouldn't last for more than one pass without stretching so much it would cause the engine to backfire by the end of the strip,,,and besides they only beat the chrysler hemi one year,,,and it was considered a fluke.

[DBLCC]

@wildpoly318 That's right, the old shotgun motors were great road race engines but put a supercharger and nitro in them and they would come apart pretty regularly. The elephant pretty much dominated after the late 60's at least in the blown and injected classes.

[raginroadrunner]

@wildpoly318 ..I was there...the Sohc showed promise but was hastily designed and built. It underwent a second revamping but still was inadequate compared to the big Mopars. Ford engineering is and always has been half assed. I still run them but I shake my head when I see what they are doing...The engine Ford should have stayed with was the 429 Nascar and stretched it to 500 inches. Improved cylinder sealing, and worked with it, it would be king of the hill today.

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner The problem with the 429 wasn't that Ford didn't want to continue, it was because the NASCAR officials were all Chevy guys and anything the Chevys couldn't beat, they banned. That's the reason that the Super Cobra Jets, the Hemis, and the winged cars were put out to pasture. And if there's no racing to get the reputation out there, the buying public isn't interested. Not only that, but you had insurance and environmental issues coming into play in 1972.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965 ..Right...100%..however...the Cleveland ran into the same emission issues...GM figured out how to scrub their big blocks and Ford should have done the same thing. Ford had a habit of jumping ship whenever a problem came up back then. As a result many engine and car builders dropped them and went to GM. Ford had gotten a little better but their management style still sucks. Their trucks went to hell, they dropped the only four wheel drive utility rig.

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner And by the late 1950s, both Chrysler and Ford figured out that it made financial sense to have just one line of engines used by all makes, something GM wouldn't discover until the late 1980s. Up to that point, Chevy, Oldsmobile, Pontiac, and Buick all made their own 350, but none of the parts interchanged.

How stupid is that?

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965..and as a result all GM brands lost their identity. GM went to the sleezy Chev engine and dropped engines that were made to a much higher standard. I know it's all economics but part of the loyalty was lost also. Nowadays none of are worth owning...all electronic money pits for the dealers to make even more to service.

[moparmonster1965]

I disagree here. By the time GM figured out that they were wasting millions of dollars a year being backward, the soul and fire had already left Detroit. That said, Chevys were still the entry-level GM, Pontiac was still the performance marque, and Oldsmobile/Buick the more luxury-oriented brands that were more affordable than Cadillac.

Also keep in mind that when Chrysler and Ford made the change, it was a recession year, 1958, so that could've had something to do with it as well.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965 .to this day when I attend a car show, something is missing. The older GM cars always had their brand engine and this created an identity platform. Caddy, Buick, Olds and so on. Now if you buy any car it has the same old crap engine that the cheapest model has in it. And you just paid thousands more for a Caddy or Lincoln and got what us guys down in the cheap seats have. This in my mind is a rip off. Cadillac Escalade is nothing but Cheverlay with glue on body panels .

[moparmonster1965]

Yes, the Escalade is just a Suburban/Avalanche, but GM has been badge engineering cars that way for 40 years. This isn't news at all.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965 ...no not news...just an affirmation of how the industry has gone to hell. It tends to illustrate how our country has deteriorated amidst the burgeoning giants in Europe. We as Americans have slipped and allowed country to stray in unknown directions.

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner I agree here on all counts, but with the safety and environmental concerns, there's no going back. Globalization and the free market are the enemy, too, because with the GOP firmly supporting the rich and corporations, they've set the stage for jobs to be exported so when the economy went down the shitter, it turned out to be worse than it needed to be. TARP then passes and the banks get bailed out with the understanding that they'd correct their behavior, which they haven't.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965..Yep...and the process to enact stiffer banking regulations are decades away..if ever.

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner The problem here is that the GOP is focused on banks, corporations, and the rich. They've forgotten about us years ago. Even their idol, Ronald Reagan, would be considered a RINO nowadays because the party took a steep dive to the far right during the Clinton administration, and they conduct themselves in such a manner that he would've never conceived.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965 .I agree and I'd like to add that Ronald Reagan was incapasitated as a result of Alzheimers disease just barely into his first term. Him being an actor, reading from a prerpared script was second nature for him. The biggest scam pulled on the American to date was the trickle down stunt. By this time anyone with half a brain knew the repubes were up to no good. His 600 ship Navy( now rusting in San Francisco) and the trade of TOW MIssles to the Iranians has proven to be wrong.

[brb0713]

@raginroadrunner Ofcourse our ManBearPig party will take beautiful motors like this and melt them down into Bong bowls , and force you to to your dyno testing in a urine soaked city bus ,,,,,,oh and its 2011 ,, Obama is Melting down his own Navy into priuses as we speak

[moparmonster1965]

When I say I'm a purist, if I were into Buicks, I would still have no problem with shoehorning a 455 into a '48 sedanette. What I don't like is the cookie-cutter approach to hotrodding, and that's take whatever car you can get your hands on, put a 350/TH400/Ford 9" rear axle combo into it and call it good. That shows an enormous lack of imagination and the loss of the true innovative hot rodding spirit.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965 ..the best part of that buildup is the Ford 9"...

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner But you missed the point; it's a worn-out concept and those people have no idea how to think for themselves because they're just reapplying the same formula over and over again. The 9" is fine, yes, but again, I'll go with the 9.25" instead.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965 ..why??? in over 50 years of high performance cars I've broken one 9"...that hardly constitutes anyhting else...and there are over 40 ratios available for the "Mighty 9"....and ..no.... I haven't missed the point...most hot rods are built by someone else...then they are bought and taken to events where the current owners try to impress the onlookers of their automotive prowness...phony is as phony does....most of them are just plain boring.

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner The Ford 9" hasn't existed for "over 50 years." I believe it was built for 29 years (1957-1986). Anything beyond that isn't a Ford product because it's aftermarket, which means it's been changed, updated, and otherwise taken farther from the original design by someone other than Ford engineers.

Yes, they have lots of parts available for them...except for that rear access cover. And they're just like Chevy 350s, common and boring, as you've already stated.

[raginroadrunner]

@moparmonster1965 ..Dude...you got it wrong again..I did not say the 9 was 50 years old... I said I raced it for over 50 years.....Ford 9" does not have and has never had a rear access cover to my knowledge. A 9" rear axle is common...but boring..hardly..no one managed to come up with anything better and they are copied by several different aftermarket builders.

[moparmonster1965]

@raginroadrunner Well, you can't really compare old cars to new cars because they're not the same. A turbocharged Acura may well beat a well-tuned 440+6 GTX, which shows that they're not in the same league. The difference is that one has character and the other doesn't.

[gernachio]

que lindo fierro!!! te felicito (nice sounds!!!)my inglish is bad, sory

[554687858]

@gernachio You got your point across dude. That's all that counts. Besides, your english is probably better than a lot of Americans.

[short1963]

sorry mopar kids im a gm man but NOTHING beats a 427 sohc ford.hands down

[terran698]

@short1963 look at top fuel nothing but 496 hemi's

[554687858]

@short1963 Except all the Hemi's in the winner's circle. You'll notice that the top engine builders copy the Hemi. Not a whole lot of ferds in top fuel...a mopar 'kid'.

[TheTruthSetlingUFree]

@554687858

It just happened that way. They could have used the 454 Chevy BIG BLOCK. Others aren't "based" on Hemi engines, they use the 427 generally - the racing Hemi. FERD was actually the first manufacturer to have Hemispherical Combustion-Chambered engines - the more you know. There actually is a 500 BOSS Ford MOTORCRAFT engine that was used in Top Fuel briefly, and is still used in John Forces Funny Car, the same guy who set the world record.

[554687858]

@TheTruthSetlingUFree OK, you got my interest - What year did Ford introduce the Hemi? Because I once had a 241ci Hemi that came out of a 53' Dodge. And you're sayin' Ford had one earlier? Also, the top fuel Hemi's are built with a solid block (no water jackets). These engines are producing over 8000 HP - And you're telling me Force is running Nitromethane through a Ford factory block?

[TheTruthSetlingUFree]

@554687858

It was engineered in the late '30's and used in the 41 Ford, although according to Hot Rod magazine, it's the Europeans who can claim the pioneering of the engine. The Nitro engine, ha a strengthened block for better duability than the standard nitro engine. A new belly pan for better sealing; the valve covers are purposely reminiscent of the old BOSS motors, and yes 8000 horses.

[PistolPete2]

Running an engine with no coolant is always smart.

[slipknotkicksass666]

they have i spark plug on the top of each piston...the ultimate engine, cant beat a hemi

[crownv80]

NICE ; LIKE THE OLDER ENGINES ! hey for the one talking about techs ; some have been around some old school cars & engines as i happen to know some . don`t mean they are not capable !

[Bamchucknorris]

man thats a nice lookin one ya got there

[thewelford]

Man, that sounds great; I wish my local pizza guy had one.

[50shotrods]

you'd burn your mouth on the pizza if he was deliverin' it with this...

[HEMIdoctor]

now thats a dirty ol hemi

[50shotrods]

thanks Doc!!!

[carbpumper]

i didnt go to trade school

[50shotrods]

no darn technician is gonna touch ma HEMI...GARON-TEED!!!

[TrapOxidizer]

Darn tootin! We redneck like to do our engine work shadetree style! We don't need no fancy book lernin' or "factory training" or "experience" like those technicians, we know these engines better than them!

[mo1971fordcrew]

Rednecks are ignorant, dense and shallow, like you.

[50shotrods]

BOYS, BOYS, BOYS...if you want to argue about something, go do it at your house...you're keeping me awake all night with that damn bickering!!! GRUMPY  (cool motor though, HUH???)

[carbpumper]

love the small block hemis i got 2 of em

[SparkinNparkin]

Oh yea I bet you do. Your 14 yrs old right? Well when I was your age I had 3! And I was getting on youtube and posting ignorant comments on everybodys videos.

[carbpumper]

well i do. one is a 57 325 4bbl red ram and the other is a 270 red ram

[fleetcaretrucks]

I actually prefer the 270 to the 325 . It has a better bore to stroke ratio that allows them to wind up real fast. The heads have smaller ports but can be opened up easily to flow even better then the 325 heads also they have smaller chambers . You have some great stuff kid take care of them!

[saludahead]

How do you know the kid's lying? I had a 427 Ford Side oiler, and a 48 Harley Panhead! when I was 14!

These old motors are out there in the small unknown nooks and crannies of this great nation of ours, and the young people out there that get hold of one or two should be encouraged, and not discouraged.

Get hold hold every old repair manual you can lay your hands on, and get tight with an old mechanic. (A MECHANIC, not a Technician! Mechanics fix things, Technicians went to trade school)

[SparkinNparkin]

How do you know he's telling the truth? If he post on here that the sky is red, are you gonna believe that too??

And mechanics were technicians at one point. Are you telling this kid not to go to trade school? Sounds to me like you think a tech doesn't know what he doing, and a trade school can't teach someone to be a mechanic.

Your a hypocrite and two statements from your post prove it.

If he has these motors, so be it. But don't knock trade schools. Everyones gotta start somewhere.

[carbpumper]

i go to high school duh

[50shotrods]

that's O.K. if you go to high school...just make sure you make ALOT of money in your life, then you can work on Hot Rods AND get your every day things done too...

[50shotrods]

them sounds like RACIN WURDS to me!!!

[saludahead]

Wasn't knocking trade schools! You don't seem to get it! OK I'll spell it out for you.

Red Ram Hemis have something that most modern engines do not have. Things like points, and carburetors, and such. It is highly unlikely that your normal every day trade school teaches much about these things because we're dealing with something that is fifty years old!

For that you need somebody that's got some time under the hood!

I've got nothing against technicians! But you've got to pay your dues!

[carbpumper]

HEY EVERYONE LISTON TO THIS GUY hes got the right idea. i live in wyoming where theres more cattle than people and more junkyards than ranches i could have way more crap if i wanted to im just getting started subscribe to me i will put good vids on

[50shotrods]

well, git um up here and WE CAN MAKE EM BETTER...

[fleetcaretrucks]

Well I have over 30 of them myself , and my nephew thats 11 has a couple (56' 315 and 58' 392) that I have given him and a Steel body 32 roadster my father gave him so he can have ready for the time he turns 16.

[carbpumper]

this is very true the 325 has alot of power on the top and low end because its gotta 4 barrel carb. the 270 on the other hand has a 2 barrel stock and is good at ripping around on the low end

[50shotrods]

WoW, HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERING ADOPTING ANOTHER SON...I HAPPEN TO KNOW A GUY...

[50shotrods]

COME ON...NO CYBER-BOXING or EXTREME KEY-BOARDING HERE...our liability won't cover it...

[HEMIdoctor]

LONG LIVE KING HEMI

[50shotrods]

and LONG LIVE THE QUEEN!!!

[pilatunes]

Where did you get the intake for this?

[50shotrods]

it's HAND-FABRICATED...

[jacktheripped]

@50shotrods I built the intake for my 151 Pontiac. I like to watch people crap their pants when they see a hand made intake :)

[KB10GL]

Strictly speaking, the sign on the wall is not correct. The ONLY Red Ram Hemi was the 241 cid engine from 1953 & '54. All other Red Rams were Poly motors untill the Wedge engine in 1959.

The D500 [Hemi] was the 315 from 1956 or the 325 from 1957.

There is NO SUCH THING as a Red Ram D500 Hemi.

[50shotrods]

SORRY FOR THE ERROR...IT IS A D-44...

[phreak7521]

That is really nice!

[50shotrods]

THANKS!

[mrbinfv]

Damm! Nearly shook the engine right off the table!!!

[40HDmine]

i can't get enough of this!

[50shotrods]

DON'T WORRY...THERE'LL BE MORE!!!

[JoeCoolJT]

Sound quality sucks!

[50shotrods]

TURN UP YOUR HEARING AID!!!

[Tyler28125]

i think it idles to high

[50shotrods]

Were you ever at the drags in the 50's or 60's??? That's how they idled them so there was no hesitation off the line...and it's got a roller cam, which takes some of the "lopiness" out of the cam sound...

[Polybun]

@Tyler28125 yea, go ahead and idle it slower on nitromethane and an early injection system. After you pick the valves out of your nostrils, tell me all about it.

[nocrap62]

Nice engine, thanks for the video

[50shotrods]

GLAD WE CAN HELP...