My Mopar 440 cid 1st startup

My Mopar 440 cid initial start-up after we rebuilt it in automotive class at Fayetteville Technical Community College in N.C. Installed all new parts and bored .030. I put this engine in my 1969 Dodge Coronet Super Bee.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Mopar
• 440
• Dodge
• Plymouth
• Super
• Bee
• engine
• motor
• rebuild

[CashMoneyBlood]

i think the idiots who keep whining about no coolant are too used to the 1.6L rice burner motors, if they over heat their dead. big difference here is this is an american muscle motor, it can withstand anything including 1 minute of run time with no coolant. if a rice burner motor did that it would blow up like the piece of shit that it is. mopar or no car!

[BattousaiHimura03]

indeed, rebuilded or not, it's a MOPAR... it rules :D

[bangshift440rt]

Skip to 4:30... the suspense was killing me!!

[Nza420]

@LinkedMooMan117117 I have a video of a Plymouth flathead running for less than a minute. There is water in the block, it was 85 degrees outside. By the end of the running, the engine was warming up already. Water transfers heat 25 times better than air. Sure, the outside of the block may not be hot with no water, but imagine the cylinder bores.... Air cooled engines.. as long as the fan is blowing the cooling air onto the cylinders, etc., then that's how they function.

[LinkedMooMan117117]

@Nza420 there is a difference between running a truck without a running water pump, and starting it up for a few seconds to be sure that it runs. trust me, i have had enough bouts with leaks in coolant systems to know that as fast as engines do heat up, that you can still run them for under a minute without consequences. and besides, if engines did heat up as fast as you are thinking, why would we let engines idle for a few minutes on cold mornings? and how would air cooled engines function?

[Nza420]

@LinkedMooMan117117 Actually, you'd probably be surprised how fast they do heat up. Fill the engine with water and leave the water pump belt off. Get back to me after you do that.

[Nza420]

@CashMoneyBlood No, I'm used to all motors requiring coolant in them to function. By the way you should look up how to use "Their" "there" and "They're"... you will seem more intelligent once you know how to use each appropriately in a sentence.

[Nza420]

@msbaugh440 Well, if you want to run the risk of cooking your parts and your head gaskets before you even put the fucking motor into the car, that's your choice. Personally, I prefer to protect my investments.

I don't care what you say... running an engine without coolant is stupid, period. I don't care WHAT jackleg automotive instructors have been doing for years -- I'm glad they weren't MY instructors.

[msbaugh440]

@Nza420 and this isn't an all aluminum engine anyways if it's a 440, so what does that matter?

[msbaugh440]

@Nza420 no that's not what I'm saying! it keeps it from flowing from the engine to the radiator

[Nza420]

@msbaugh440 Are you saying that all engines have no coolant in them before the thermostat opens? *BZZZZZ* wrong. Try running an all-aluminum engine with no coolant sometime and get back to me.

[LinkedMooMan117117]

@Nza420 engines don't instantaneously heat up, so not having any coolant won't kill it if it only runs for under a minute at a time. it does take a little while for that heat to run through the block and overheat it.