Dont know if any of you get mopar muscle mag but a year ago I ran in to the editor at mopars at the strip. I expressed my idea of a cool slant build for his wifes car but they put in a v-8. Well I sent off a email to him several months ago and (not sure if it was known here.) he published it a few months back and said no to a slant six build off due to not enough interest. Well two months later some one else called them chicken and called them out as well in regards to my email.

Maybe we can help them see the interest? Maybe we could help them to organize a build off from us?

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it's like a vw, sounds like a million miles an hour but goes really slow. (for now)

i don`t subscribe but when i see it on the stands i buy it, so who will i adress the e-mail to?

When they called to see if I wanted to renew my subscription I told them "No you don't do enough stuff with slant sixes".

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There is just SO many slant to Hemi and RB conversions a man can take

They even had a Hemi Valiant in there last month ..........

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Fanie Gerber
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Just say I own a few Mopars

I dropped Mopar Muscle about a year after they bought out HP Mopar. Too many Hemi Cuda restorations and little "grass roots" tech. I guess they might have gotten better.

My guess is we don't have enough guys who would care enough or have the money to put together a solid Slant engine for competition or runoff. Where would it be? Rules?

I would be willing to put up a motor, and after put it in my racecar, if conditions were right. Dunno...

It seems an ideal competition would be a competition (any Mopar engine) rated for most average HP/cube 2500-6000 RPM (like PHR Engine Masters) and least $/HP. I could possibly get into that.

Would you put up a motor, mopardemon71?

Interesting idea...

Lou

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Well that a good question Lou and yes the current motor I'm building would be up for a blast on the dyno. Even if I painted the walls of the room royal purple 10w-30! All Im saying is that if there are sixor seven guys that could swing it with a future, current, or past built engine we could only try and persway them and show them the number of slant guys that would buy thier rag if they catered to us at some level in thier "hallowed" pages. As far as rules we need builders first to agree on those. But h&%$ lift yor kilt and let'em hang for all I care its based on93 pump gas, HP, torque,and cost usually.

As far as email mopar muscle magizine .com and make it to the editor and refrence the slant build off letter in the july 08 issuse.

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it's like a vw, sounds like a million miles an hour but goes really slow. (for now)

It was me who called them chicken. They had my adress down as Belleville Ohio instead of Belleville Ontario but I'll live.
It would appear they have some commercial aspect to the builders they choose. I had not thought of that. I thought they issued thechallenge and those interested stepped to the plate. If They issued the challenge they would soon enuf know how many would build for it. Sixes require more skill to build I believe but that is what makes them fun. You dont just phone up Indy or Scott whats his face. You work , think and make as much as possible yourself. It is an old skill lost forever in the days of too much gold. It used to be called Hotrodding. I still enjoy it. I received a free 198 Saturday andtore it down today. I am wondering can I give up 27 cubes for the reduction on stroke and still pull it off on top end with the exra RPM i can safely have. Anyone done a 198? I did one in the 70s for my wife and put it in a 66 valiant that we bought with no engine. It was a MP cam planed block and head, big valves an offy manifold with a Holley 500 2 bbl installed and hooker headers . it worked great but that was a street piece and I am now working witha dragster. I am somewhat torn between the two 225 or 198.
Don D

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How 'bout a 225 with 198 rods...?

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vm

maybe the 198 crank in a 170 block

Why the heck not? I love explosions as much as the next guy

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Y'know, my Dart sounds a lot like Anthony Michael Hall's Canadian girlfriend in "The Breakfast Club"...

[quote="Dolmetsch"]It was me who called them chicken.

Thanks for sticking up for me/us

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it's like a vw, sounds like a million miles an hour but goes really slow. (for now)

Why not a 170?
I would love to put a built 170 in a dragster, that only weighs about 1300-1400 lbs.

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65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 170 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170
64 Valiant 4dr 225

I saw that Mopar Muscle and thier reply... 'not enough interest'. What they are saying is that they aren't interested enough to bother asking people imo. if they REALLY asked people to do it, someone'd say yes. They wouldn't say no all across the board. There's gotta be millions of people out there still running slants (in north America alone, let alone the rest of the world), and they can't find any shops that wanna build any? C'mon. All they have to do is get Steve Mangante behind it.

I dunno, I'm probably just being a jerk cause they are dismissing our venerable motor without any second thought... narrow minded V8'ers... =) Even though I'm relatively young I still remember the days when people would do something risky for what it stood for and what it represented, rather than not doing it because of 'the money'. America was founded on risk...

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I saw the comment too. kind of bummed me out.....

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