4,400 HP !
 

Now that's weird for me, at first the pics and everything comes up clear then the whole background and pics goes dark, in fact so dark it's hard to see the pics. and impossible to read the print :shock:

Zip.

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...pse74c1967.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...pseb1c5ab2.jpg


http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps1fabb55c.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...psc5e863d5.jpg

http://i406.photobucket.com/albums/p...ps19bec999.jpg

Here are some pictures and the text for the engine. There are also links for other sites with the same engine.

http://www.carcraft.com/techarticles...g_block_chevy/

http://www.nitromater.com/nhra/29275...o-mustang.html

http://blogs.hotrod.com/4400-hp-mora...#axzz2JlhfKY1O

It’s highly likely that at this very moment I’m the only member of the media staring at over 100 high-resolution images of what is undeniably the sexiest engine ever created by man. The images are arranged in chronological order, a veritable instruction manual detailing the assembly of a hemi-headed monster that Mother Mopar could never in her wildest dreams imagine. It’s not her fault. Except for a few race cars, Mopars were built for the masses. This masterpiece is altogether different. It was designed to ingest, compress, and explode mass quantities of atmosphere and manmade fuel, creating power to be harnessed and turned into friction, accelerating a racecar to unheard of speeds. Mike Moran’s turbocharged bullet is machined entirely from billets of aluminum and will reportedly build 4,400 hp. How? Stay tuned to Hot Rod Magazine to find out.

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TS1955

That there is engine porn :!: :wink:

I wanna see the Heads!

Some photos and writeup on the Moran Hemi.

http://bangshift.com/blog/pri-2012-m...nd-turbos.html

Still wanna see the heads . . All of the Head(s)!

But as a Machining exercise, it is a work of Art!

On the other hand, there's far cheaper ways of arriving at 4500 HP . .

Jus' sayin' . . .

Zip, You couldn't see anything cuz just the THOUGHT of that kinda HP at your beck and call is flat azz overwhelming to the senses ! :D :D

You're right about that, back in the day when i was going fast (mid 80's) the alcohol funny cars wasn't making anywhere that kind of HP, before the introduction of the screw type blowers, i mean 6.50 at 220 was hauling azz then, now they are running 5.60 at 250 plus.
But on the other hand they are only 500 cu in.

Zip.

Thats what she said. :D

OK; forgive my ignorance here... but it is hard for me to comprehend this whole thing. MY question: in the first series of pics that Fla1976 posted- WTH is pic #2??? What is that thing... flux-capacitor?

Roller lifter.
Quote from Hot Rod "We dig the bolt-in lifter bushings, which make swapping them out a snap after you’ve nuked one. Drag Week Unlimited Class racers, are you listening? By the way the lifters have wheels that are over one-inch in diameter".

Still want to see the head(s) . .

And if the Lifters have a 1" dia. Roller follower, what the hell does the Camshaft look like? It's gotta have lobes that resemble the counterweights on a SBC crankshaft . . I understand the need to cut bearing speed and increase the loading at the lifter (More valve seat pressure) but a radius like that isn't conducive to following a quarter inch radius on the ramps of todays long duration .800"+ lift "square lobed" cams, one would think . .

But then I was never very good at driving trains . . .

The cam journals have got to be humongous ! 3" any way... :shock: :shock:

Yeah, I went back and looked at the picture of the block after I popped wise . . I'd guess that they're closer to 4" in diameter because they're actually bigger than the mains . .

Still, when you build a bigger lifter, you just create more reciprocating mass that has to change direction at high speeds and tremendous spring pressure . . so then you have to increase valve spring pressure, stronger rockers, bigger pushrods and more expensive one piece valves . . It's kind of a vicious circle . .

All the NASCAR guys are going the other way . . Little bitty cam lobes, little flat tappet lifters, skinny pushrods, and really high rocker arm ratios, 1:8/1:9 with 125# of seat pressure . . Dunno who's right, but their engines are built to go about 550 miles, while a drag racing engine spends more time being warmed than it does racing.

I guess us drag racers like kicking the tiger's ass more than tickling a mouse . . 'spose?