On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:13:28 -0600, "Leon"
wrote:


"LDosser" wrote in message
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I had several with the 225 slant six and one with the 318. Did most of
my own work on them and all tune ups. Only thing I didn't like was
setting the points on the slant six (exhaust header burns on fore arm)
and trying to start either if a neighborhood dog peed within a block or
so while the engine was turning over ...


They made a header for the slant 6??

Yes, but

My bad. Head was thinking exhaust manifold and fingers were busy thinking
about after market parts.

Was your exhaust manifold cracked. IIRC that was a problem with that
engine. When cold the engine exhaust manifold was kinda noisy and quietened
up when it got hot.


They really only cracked if they were overtorqued. Usually started
with a loose manifold and a burned gasket - so it was tighteded trying
to fix the gasket leak - which then cracked the manifold.. I know - I
replaced lots of them back then. Including ONE of my own.


Here hold my beer and watch this!

My buddy was given his mother's Beige 4 door 65 Dodge Coronet. Slant 6,
auto trans. That thing was full race and looked the part. OR NOT!.
One cold night we were out kinda late in Corpus Christi sipping on a
couple of large screw top bottles of beer. Brand, did not matter.

If it was Lone Star ...

I believe you are right.... MY BIL was the VP of the local Lone Star
distributorship.



We were going down the freeway with darn little traffic so we are going
about 70.

My buddy looked over at me and said, watch this. He reached up grabbed
the shift lever, and yanked it down all the way into low. The engine
roared and we suddenly slowed down.

But it only downshifted into second. To get it into low required
hitting the brakes and the accellerator to get the driveshaft speed
down (by sliding the rear wheels) and the throttle pressure up (by
flooring the accellerator. With my 63 set up the way I had it
(206RWHP) I could force it into low at about 58MPH, but no higher -
and it would do 60 in 1st if I held it in.

And?

That's it the engine roared and we slowed down. That was an industrial
engine used on other applications other than automitive and they could be
abused. Back then was also when the Chrysler products had bullet proof
transmissions also. Remember the commericals where the guy floors the
accelerator pedal and does what my froend did except he goes from D to R and
back to D. Close up of the smokin rear tire shows it reversing dirrections
a couple of times.

The 727 was good for "fish-hooks" at about 20MPH on a 318 or 383.
As foir the engine, it was USED as an industrial engine, but it was
DESIGNED as an automotive powerplant - actually for the Valiant (first
application of the slant six engine)

That car was our "tank" It saw a lot of action in local farmers corn
fields.