our engines hemi's?

[americanjebus]

i havent taken the head off of this car but my mechanic friend told me that the heads are hemispherical over the cylinders. i dont know i just wanna get this doubt out of my mind
do we realy drive hemi's?

 

[mysticfire6602]

well, hemi is short for hemispherical, and the dodge hemi has hemispherical combustion chambers, so if our heads have hemispherical combustion chambers, then yes we drive hemi engines

 

[CanadianTSi]

pretty much all cars for the last 20 years have been Hemi's....

 

[GUY]

pretty much all cars for the last 20 years have been Hemi's....

exactly, but chrysler uses that as there trademark so no other companies can call there engine a "Hemi" although it might be one.......copyright law

 

[mysticfire6602]

exactly, but chrysler uses that as there trademark so no other companies can call there engine a "Hemi" although it might be one.......copyright law

ya, like "thats hot" god i hope i dont get sued if she sees me saying that on a forum.

 

[96whgsx]

Marketing!!!

They use it to sell more of something by making it more appealing. They just inflated the idea.

 

[HighPsi92GST]

it makes the owners of the "hemi" trucks feel bigger inside to think they have the ONLY hemi's

 

[ChicksDigBoost]

Actually there is a difference the old hemi's were low swirl heads and weren't that great for complete air/fuel mixture burn. The 4G63 head is a multi-vavle crossflow head, its close to the pentroof design (Whick most cars have now and have had for a while). It though still similiar to the hemi design but is much more effiecent and swirls the air better for a more complete burn.

 

[sjgYFZ200]

Didn't some of the old Chrysler Hemi's use twin spark plugs?

16 plugs is alot of plugs

 

[terefic181]

The old traditional MoPar Hemis were true hemisherical (domed) combustion chambers. I think for a lack of bettter terminology on my part, I would say that our heads would be a double wedge type head.

Below the head on the Left is a Hemi and the one on the Right is a 4G63. The graphic below is a traditional wedge type head to a ? Double wedge, which is what our heads look like.

Tom