The saga of my Hemi has ended

[Phillip marvetz]

Most of you know I bought a 426 Hemi engine from a fellow racer (Name withheld because I have been warned that if I mentioned it again I would be banned here) in Waldo Florida for my stocker awhile ago and had major issue's with what I received. It was completely illegal for stock and has been sitting in the crate for a few years. Since I'm not running stock this year I decided to get some use out of it and put it in the car last week and got it running. Today I took it over to my local chassis dyno to get it dialed in for this weekends B.C old time time drags, On pull number 5 it launched a valve thru #1 piston, and a bunch of coolant out of the left side header bank. It did however make 60 more hp than the bone stock street hemi short block it replaced on pull #4. Total junk.
I'm looking forward to building something that will be legal and run the way a Race Hemi should, It will be awhile before I can afford it though. Hopefully the block will be usable, If not I'm done for much longer.