On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:26:07 -0800, "LDosser"
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"Leon" wrote in message
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"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 ...



The points were on the opposite side of the engine from the exhaust,
so exhaust burns were NOT a possibility unless you were an orangutan.

I always set the engine to #1 TDC and pulled the distributor to do
points on my conventional ignition Slanties. On the 170 I had to - set
them up on the distributor machine to make sure they didn't bounce or
float at 6500RPM. Anything other than #1 TDC they were a royal pain
to get properly retimed.

They made a header for the slant 6??

They did - actually quite a few companies - but You didn't see many -
the warmup wirhout a heat rizer was pretty tricky in cold weather, and
carb icing was a real problem with any humidity at all.


Ignition was never a problem if you used good wires and caps - mine
would start with a garden hose running over the engine.

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.


The manifolds generally cracked when they were overtorqued trying to
stop a manifold gasket leak.


No, but it was hot.




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.

They would not shift into low above about 58MPH, and even then you
needed to have your foot to the floor to do it.
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 slant six was designed for the Valiant - and then used as an
industrial engine, truck engine, and base engine on just about
everything Chrysler built.

The dual pump automatics would take a real beating - but the
"fish-hook" trick generally only worked at speeds under 30MPH
(actually 20, IIRC) They would not engage reverse at higher speeds.

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