Pontiac Chieftain
Muscle Cars ? Why did 1955 (1950s) Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth put headers on the intake side of the engine?
Muscle Car? 1955 Chrysler? How can that be when Arnie "The Farmer" Beswick was the NHRA Top Stock winner 1955 - 1956 with a Factory 1954 Oldsmobile Super 88, and in 1957 John Zinc was NHRA Top Stock winner with a Factory 1957 Pontiac Chieftain 347 cid/ 317 H.P., Tri-Power (3X2 Barrel), Delco Dual Point Distributer, McKellar #6 Camshaft, and Dual Exhaust. (2) Shouldn't the headers be on the exhaust side of a Mopar (Chrysler) engine, it probably would of made it faster? (2b) What was Mopar (Chrysler) thinking?
Check out: "Chrysler300country.com", click on, The heart of the beast...engines from 1955-1965, look at 413 engine, 300F and 300G.
The length of the intake "headers" they must be heavy, the weight probably takes away alot of horse power gained! Chrysler300country.com, check out Full table of contents, Ramchargers, muscle cars,etc... Great Information.
Check out ram injection.
Some Big Block engines came with long runner intake manifolds to "tune" the engine to have more torque or horsepower, the are actually intake manifolds which reposition the carbs to the side of the engine above the valve covers, they act as sort of velocity stacks and ram the air fuel mixture into the cylinder for more HP, or better torque generation, only used for a few years.
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