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anyone seen a hemi like this before ?
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I have one like that without the Ind. tag. Mine is a 1955 331 CI. Looking for a body for it now. If you get the numbers off it, there is a nice site to decode it.

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Back when I was an aircraft powerplant mechanic, we had several of those in Hobart drive around power units. I had to convert them all to electronic ignition, because they ate points/condensers for breakfast. BIG two barrel carbs and oil bath air cleaners too... then I converted them all to run on propane... one blew up, and I stuck a 413 in that one from a wrecked D500 Dodge truck

JH

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i used to work for united airlines as well as my father , and he was the garage op. manager and this was in the ground power units that started the planes. there was at least 4 of these that were sitting around for many years. this one made it back to his house.

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They were used in generators and industrial applications. Don't know what, if any, internal differences there are.

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well here's one . . . sorta

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and I know for a fact there's a 331 under the hood of this little cutie . . . '54 Desoto Firedome. 1 of about 8 original 2 door Hemi cars still surviving. Original motor is gone . . . has a '56 331 Hemi.

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I went to Rankin Tech in St Louis Mo and we had 2 of those engines running 750 K Gen. Sets. Those 2 hemi's had to be tuned to perfection to get enough out of the generators to start the 1000 hp locomotive engine at the school. The class before mine forgot to turn on the oil pump to the engine and it oversped and siezed a rod brg. It was a big inline 6 Detroit and 1200 rpm was overspeed for it. The building it was in covered a city block square and we all thought there was a earthquake when that big boy went. My class got to tear it down and I now have a rod and piston assembly out of it for my mail box stand.

Anyway back to the hemi's Buizilla is right it just about took a new set of points everytime you wanted the things to run right. I don't remember what the hp was but it wasn't very good. The one's on the gen sets always had a vibration to them that just never seemed right, don't know if it was the engine or the gen. they was turning.

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is it worth putting into a street rod of some sort or just clean it up and have it to look at ?

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Make another hole in that bar Jeff !!!