Interesting.
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| Author: | vynn3 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 11:35 am ] |
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http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... 0058238338 ?! |
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| Author: | slantzilla [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:06 pm ] |
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Interesting.
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| Author: | sick6 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:08 pm ] |
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the one port looks cracked doesn't it? |
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| Author: | slantvaliant [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:19 pm ] |
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Does Santa do ebay? |
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| Author: | vynn3 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:30 pm ] |
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Anybody know the story on these? The heads on the aluminum engines were cast iron, right? |
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| Author: | GENT [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:37 pm ] |
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Is this thing for real? Would this make it easier to reproduce a aluminum slant six head(that we all want,but can not afford)? I want to put an all aluminum slant six in my Dart Lite,and try to achieve the 36 m.p.g or better that my car supposedly got in 1976.....I know its kind of a pipe dream,but I have been thinking about this ALOT lately! I thought there never was an aluminum slant head produced,that Mopar thought about it but decided against it for $$$ reasons 
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| Author: | Joshie225 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:50 pm ] |
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Quote: the one port looks cracked doesn't it?
No, that's a casting parting line.
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| Author: | Joshie225 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 1:58 pm ] |
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Quote: Is this thing for real? Would this make it easier to reproduce a aluminum slant six head(that we all want,but can not afford)? I want to put an all aluminum slant six in my Dart Lite,and try to achieve the 36 m.p.g or better that my car supposedly got in 1976.....I know its kind of a pipe dream,but I have been thinking about this ALOT lately!
It's one of those prototype parts that never made it into production. If the casting patterns still existed it would make reproducing it easier, but that's not what's up for auction. The combustion chamber looks like the 2.2 bathtub chamber, BTW.I thought there never was an aluminum slant head produced,that Mopar thought about it but decided against it for $$$ reasons Your Dart Lite never got 36 MPG. If you knew how the EPA tested cars you'd understand why you'll never see a real world 36 MPG. |
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| Author: | Dart270 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 2:06 pm ] |
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Dang. I may have to bid on it... 68Dart270 is my Ebay handle, FYI. Lou |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:06 pm ] |
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I can't tell, but it does look like there might be a crack in the port shown. It surely is an interesting piece, and it'd be all kinds of neat to have it, but I can't help wondering what one would do with it. It's fun to think about running it on an actual engine, but I'd probably be terrified to do so...not because it might not work/run well, it'd probably run fine, but because what if something, y'know, were to happen to it? Unseen casting flaw, weird incompatibility with modern coolant, strange headgasket problem, destructive hard-part failure? The breakage of such a piece would be devastating. Heartbreaking. And I don't know what the reserve is, but I bet it's high enough that this would be one heck of an expensive coffee table base or bookend...!
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| Author: | Joshie225 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:23 pm ] |
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Quote: Dang. I may have to bid on it... 68Dart270 is my Ebay handle, FYI.
Ok, but lets not get into a bidding war.Lou My eBay handle is joshuaskinner as if that left anything to question. |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:32 pm ] |
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Yeah, we may have an interesting problem here. I'm vacillating on whether or not I should bid on it, but here's the thing: Most people in the world don't care a whit about this head. Those who do care don't just care a little bit, we care a whole lot. And most of us are right here on this board. So is there any way for us to avoid stepping on each other and driving up the cost of the head against each other? If so, how? Let's brainstorm this now, while the auction is still "young". Me, I've been looking for one of these for half my life (but I wouldn't bid unless I had a good and realistic answer to "what to do with it?" as asked above). I'm sure I'm not the only one. One potential idea I'm just beginning to discuss with another interested and capable individual is getting together as a partnership to buy the head for the purposes of reproducing it. It seems to me the price of the head is likely to reach levels that will require either somebody very wealthy, or such a partnership/consortium (several people's worth of money) to buy. |
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| Author: | rosspulliam [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 3:56 pm ] |
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In the interest of reproduction, I'd be interested in a group buy of sorts. If a pool is taken to buy it, what is the likelyhood something like this could even BE reproduced? |
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| Author: | oldgoat83 [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:02 pm ] |
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I can't see the auction here at work due to web filters. But what engines will this work on? I think I would be out of luck with my hydraulic lifters. Or would I simply replace the entire head? |
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| Author: | SlantSixDan [ Tue Nov 28, 2006 4:05 pm ] |
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Quote: In the interest of reproduction, I'd be interested in a group buy of sorts.
That's the $64K question to be explored!
If a pool is taken to buy it, what is the likelyhood something like this could even BE reproduced? |
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