Showing posts with label Satellite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Satellite. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

just how fast was a stock hemi Plymouth Satellite?


Or maybe the speed record was 164 mph, depends on the source of info
Just how stock was it? A hemi, yeah, they wouldn't have super tuned that on a dyno, upgraded the guts a little? Dropped to the tallest highway gears available in a 8 3/4 or Dana 60 which were 2.93 and 3.23... maybe aluminum panels? Headers? Hell, I can see the roll cage, so it was prepped for the salt high speed.
Well, how about that, a little diggin around on the internet turns up that is was a prototype Satellite, the first street hemi to be installed, with special fuel injection ste ups and dry sumps, and the project was shepherded by Peter Dawson a Chrysler factory engineer who shared a garage with Tom Hoover (father of the 426 hemi) and a variety of rear axle ratios were brought along, http://www.moparmagazine.com/2009/may_june/grassroots_engineering

Crusin' Main in Escondido, July 10 2009
































1925 Dodge


Plymouths at the Vista rod run






Both front and back doors are suicide doors.





For more photos from the Vista Rod Run: http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/vista-rod-run-cool-cars.html and http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2009/08/variety-of-interesting-stuff-from-teh.html