Tuesday, January 31, 2012
CHRYSLER technical information
Chrysler, one of the most dominant names in the era of the early "Muscle car" developed three main series of engines which are still very popular in racing, and performance today. Chrysler engineers recently added two new V-10. Both became very popular. For our purposes, we will refer to 273-360 small block Chrysler engines» the engine, 383-440 standard big block engine as the engine head "B" and don't forget all the popular Hemi. On these pages we tried to pass along some of the common "tips" from our many years of engine building, as well as the experience of many of our clients. We will not attempt to cover all trivia, only more unique and aggravating hotspots. If you ever doubt many excellent reference manuals. (Performance Mopar catalog) is one of the best. He is in great detail about Chrysler engines.
Types of engines -> Small block, "A" uses "20 prefix key 273-360 engines, since the mid 1960 's, has changed on the valve train. 1964-1991 engines used shaft type rocker arms requires some special changes in design of camshaft to oil at the top of the engine and the shafts of the rocker arm. Most of these early engines featured fluted or offset hole in the third and fourth Cam. In some cases, were a combination of both the grooves and holes. You must remember that if your engine has a shaft-type rocker arms there must be some groove or a similar combination of hole on the diaries of cam. In 1992, version Magnum engines "A" was changed to a pedestal design style separate rocker arm.
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