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Chrysler Nixes HEMI!

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#35 ·
Using electricity is just as bad or worse than fossil fuels. I mean look at the parts of the country that are having electricity problems. The problem I have with electric powered cars is; who's to say there won't be supply and demand problems like with gas? I say there will be, and the price of electricity will go up the more there are uses for it. So in turn the problem won't be the price of gas anymore, but the price of electricity.
 
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True plus i believe over half of the power plants in the US. Are Coal and oil burners. Nuclear power is the way to go. And have the US Navy run them. No 3 Mile Island's Every happened on any Nuc sub and surface ships. Build them at military base and Area 51. Way better protected than any Public power plant.
 
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Lets see, Chrysler dropped the HEMI in the late 70s because of gas and emissions. Late 90s and Chrysler noticed a lot of people driving trucks, vans, and SUVs with V8s (yet still bitched about the gas prices). Chrysler built a new hemi based motor for better gas mileage and was also to find a way for emissions to work with it. Federal goverment added on taxes because it is a gas gusler (that's why the new Challenger costs around 40,000 BASE.) and now dropping the hemi again.

Why can't Chrysler make a 4 banger that is hemi based and toss in a turbo or super charger as a standard?
 
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Because using engines based of a multiple of 3 are the most efficient.
Firing interval is 240 degrees, and you don't have crosstalk from uneven firing on the banks that crossplane cranks have.

Inline3 (this is why the Honda Insight had a 1.0 liter 3 cylinder)
Inline6s (smooth, front I3 balances out back I3. This is why BMW uses them, and many trucks)
Vee 12 (dual inline6s, positive net torque http://www.epi-eng.com/ET-PistonExcit.htm THE engine)
Vee 6 (the bad half of a V12, okay the crankshaft is different)
Boxing6 (almost as good as an Inline6, theory differs from reality, especially when there is an extra large axial offset-to fit another bearing)


Broad Arrow 9 cylinder (also called W, because the letter W is twin Vees) http://www.atomracing.se/6M.html the torque number seems way too high (94ft-lbs / liter, No.)
VW's VR engines (staggered Inline6)
 
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And fast breeder plants make more fuel than the use. The Armed Forces would take care of some the the spent wast. DPU ammo for Anti-Armor rounds, and Armor for tanks Ect... Wind and Tidal Power would be some other ways. To help where they could be used.
 
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It is deja vue, again, 1970. It's may be the last chance to buy muscle.

However, the article stressed that the shape of the hemi head was the problem, not the size of the engine. With the hemi shape, combusion is poor (requiring two plugs), and its difficult to have four valves and dual overhead cams. However, it is correct that the V8 days are numbered as gas prices continue to rise.

I now understand why the Challenger is only coming with Hemis in 2008. Chrysler probably has a pile of surplus hemis it needs to unload.
 
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