DODGE AUTOMOBILES 1950s RED RAM V-8 HEMI ENGINE PROMOTIONAL FILM 45394
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Produced for Dodge, this vintage film explains the new "Red Ram" hemispherical V-8 engine, one of the A-engine series. The A engine family was a modern, efficient, and durable design produced from 1956 through 1966; the LA series of V8 engines was based on a lightweight casting of the A engines, appearing in 1964. The A and LA blocks are similarly sized and hard to tell apart from the outside, but the A's polyspherical heads were considerably larger than the LA's heads. It was an overhead valve design with dome-shaped heads. Dodge wrote, “So durable are they that the standard 25,000 mile laboratory tests for wear had to be changed to 50,000-mile and 100,000-mile checks-because no discernible wear showed up until long past the 25,000-mile figure.”
As the narrator says, "During the years of defining, developing and perfecting the Red Ram it has come through thousands of hours of tests in the laboratory and on the road. It’s proven its performances. The new Red Ram develops a full 140 horsepower at 44 revolutions per minute as seen at mark 0:40. It produces more horse power per cubic inch displacement than any other engine in the America. At mark 0:50, the Ram's power is tested on the road. It can run more than 100 miles per hour and can cruise along the highways with endless of hours with a smoothness and quietness unbelievable. A Red Ram has plenty reserve power and plenty of pickup acceleration despair as seen at mark 1:00. At mark 1:12, it does this by using regular fuel. At mark 1:27, it is proven that the Red Ram has high efficiency in performance, power, speed and long life. The reason for this is seen from mark 1:25. The combustion chamber is seen here and heat energy loss is also noted in the combustion chamber and reason for its shape. A little experiment on heat loss through the shape of the compartment chamber is conducted at mark 2:45. There are 2 containers here which are immersed into ice water and through thermometer reading with time, heat loss is measured. Likewise in automobile engines, combustion chambers that are not hemispherical, waste heat through the larger surfaces as seen at mark 3:45. But in the Red Ram the heat is turned into extra and working power as seen at mark 3:50. The gas has ideal place to work and to work efficiently. A slow motion animation is seen at mark 4:00. Here the cause of the design of the ordinary combustion chamber with the spark plug on one side makes burning time to be longer due to long distance covered by the flame. At mark 4:20, the spark plug is located at the center and the result is a smooth even power thrust as seen at mark 4:42 on engine. The Red Ram has a high compression ratio of 7.1 to 1 as seen at mark 4:55. Another tremendous advantage of the hemispherical combustion chamber is the high biometric efficiency as seen at mark 5:11. It is the ability of the engine to inhale the maximum amount of fuel and air mixture and exhale the exhaust gases also in the shortest possible time as seen at mark 5:23.
The volumetric efficiency of the red ram is unsurpassed as seen at mark 5:35. The exhaust metal hole is seen at mark 5:55 and how gases are burnt in the compartment. The intake metal hole is divided into 2 sections as seen at mark 06:08. At mark 6:30, each red ram cylinder has its own exhaust passage leading to the exhaust metal hole. The outlet of each metal hole is connected with the pipe. This enables for the smoothness and quietness of the Red Ram engine as seen at mark 6:57. Another reason for the brilliant action of the red ram is seen at mark 7:05. The Red Ram also has a high mechanical efficiency as seen at mark 7:50. In the red ram engine, the distance of travel is reduced as seen at mark 8:10 and this short stroke consequently means less wear. The Red Ram engine has many additional features and improvements as all are listed at mark 8:44.
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My wife's dad bought an a 53 Dodge Coronet brand new, 241 red ram restoring it now. Can't wait.
Why can’t courses be this comprehensive and easy to understand anymore?
I wll always like these Automotive episodes about the inner workings of the red ram hemi Dodge engine and how it works
I will bet that over 95% of people today have never seen an oil bath air breather like the one shown here.
@raybin6873
3 жыл бұрын
My first car I bought for $25 - 1962 Chevy Biscayne 235 cu. in. 6 cyl engine had an oil bath filter. It worked very good BTW. My father had a 1959 Rambler Nash 6 cyl engine that didn't have an engine oil filter. It was optional equipment.
I had a one ton 1955 Dodge wrecker (tow trk). That Red Ram Hemi was the business!. Reliable& a LOT of power!. Started in Sub zero GREAT truck great engine RIP Chrysler!, Sold to stinking french!. Sickening!.
@NZDC69
4 жыл бұрын
Chrysler is owned by Fiat, and ITALIAN company.
@patrickcannell2258
3 жыл бұрын
Owned by Fiat. Fix it again Tony
@dglcomputers1498
2 жыл бұрын
As has been said it was the Italians via FIAT that brought them when they went bust, though they have merged with the French company PSA (Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Vauxhall, Opel) to form Stellantis, so they are now half French!
This engine was produced from 1953 thru 1957, with CID's of 241, 270 & 315 in Dodges, and 255 in some '55 Plymouths. Plymouth used the same short block with what they called polyspherical (Semi-Hemi) heads in 1955 and some 1956's. The 1951 thru 1958 Chrysler and 1952 thru 1957 DeSoto engines were also A-series engines, although they had different block and head castings. The 1956 Thru 1966 A-series engines were produced in the new (in 1955) Plymouth engine plant that started production in late 1955.
@johnfleming7879
2 жыл бұрын
the corporate wizards would try to offer that much diversity- which was also experimentation today
Videos that promotes the vehicle on its performance and not just a trendy vehicle makes it a big difference in my opinion of cars today vs the classic ones back then. I like how they have a more of a vehicle performance approach rather then just trying to sell the car for how it looks.
Until this video came along, I had no idea how the hemi engine worked - this is great stuff!
A car with that engine is sure to be one hot go-job!
This was actually a great insight on Hemis.
Chrysler really made the HEMI engine famous. It would go on to have a storied career on the race track.
@shawnriddle3018
7 жыл бұрын
Chrysler trademarked Hemi.
@sadwingsraging3044
Жыл бұрын
If by "storied" you mean wrote the rule books then yeah.
Like too see a 1954 Dodge Royal, V-8 Hemi engine, 2 door hardtop with 3 tone paint job, such as blue body, narrow black strips running below the side windows, and a white top, for example. Powerflite automatic transmission was debuted for that year, and proven popular. Other popular accessories are: Power steering, power brakes, push button AM radio, and wide whitewall tires. 1954 (along with 1955, 1956, and 1957 are the good years) for Chrysler Corporation.
in 1969 my dad and put a Chrysler 392 hemi into a 59 ply wagon. it wasnt easy but we did it.
this was the favorite V-8 for dragsters in the day- grind the heads, polish the ports etc maybe 3x2 carbs
Wow! high compression of 7.7 to 1. How things have changed.
@dougabbott8261
5 жыл бұрын
On regular gas at that.
@edwardpate6128
4 жыл бұрын
Octane was VERY low back then. One of the reasons Chrysler spent so much time on the Hemi head design which could make the most of that poor gas.
@patrickcannell2258
3 жыл бұрын
There were British racing engines of 10:1 then. Petrol octane rating was the limit back then!
@wernerbloemwagen6878
3 жыл бұрын
7.1 to 1
@IGrocker
3 жыл бұрын
It blew the 5.5:1 of the flathead Ford out of the water! lol. Love both engines, built a couple flatties and currently building a 270 Hemi. Fuel in the 50’s sucked.
I put one of these engines in my 1st car, a 1951 Plymouth Concord Fastback. The engine was bored .060 over, milled heads, collapsed hydraulic lifters with adjustable push rods and a carter 4 barrel carb. For only 248 CID in a 3,200# car, it ran pretty good!
@Koexistence13
2 жыл бұрын
Where yuh at on that resto
My 2nd car was a 1956 Plymouth with the 270 CID Polyspherical Head version of this engine. It was bored 0.060 over, milled heads, the same carter 4 barrel &intake manifold from my dodge hemi and a 4.10 rear end. It also ran pretty good, it surprised quite a few Chevies including a"57 Vette.
This rather scientific narrator actually drove a Ford Fairlane. Oh, the humanity!
While contemplating the purchase of my first car, I test drove a 53 Dodge Coronet sedan(circa 1967). It had plenty of power, but the stangeness of the semi-automatic trans, turned me off. If it had a regular three-on-the-tree shift, I would have been sold.
Love to have one in a pickup truck right now . With just a few mods .
My brother worked at a Chrysler distribution center back when they were going bankrupt in the late 70"-80"s, management sent him and others through the facility to round up anything and everything that was not immediately necessary for the companies survival, Way back in an old part of the building they found two Hemi Red Rams still in the original crates covered over by other crap. My brother and a security guard were tasked with removing them and taking them away, he watched as both motors were band sawed into 4 pieces and tossed. Only in Canada could this have been allowed to happen
@rebelcowboy5.7l98
4 жыл бұрын
Id have snapped. Load them in the truck even if it gets u fired
@kidmack1121
4 жыл бұрын
I feel as though someone punched me in the bread basket readinging that. That's worse than burning books!
@kidmack1121
4 жыл бұрын
@@rebelcowboy5.7l98 You got that right, Paul Simon couldn't have sung it better; "Just jump in the truck Buck, and watch 'em try ta catch meee"
And in spite of the advantage of the hemi, Chrysler went with all wedge heads.
Periscope also you do the competition. General Motors
GOOSEBUMPS lol
The Red Ram was the Hemi and then there was a Super Red Ram and that was a poly engine. Some Dodges in 1957 had the Red Ram Hemi and others had the Super Red Ram Ply engine
The only company that can make a hemi is MOPAR!!!!!!!!
@mikeburks9641
5 жыл бұрын
Johnny Hawkins no Mopar didn't invent the hemi engine, they only trademarked the name. anybody can make one.
@Nunofurdambiznez
Жыл бұрын
@@mikeburks9641 You're missing his underlying point...
That exhaust port looked like it was pretty restrictive aswell as I see a sharp edge lol
Most avances than Ford's or Chevy's ones.
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is the 318 a Good motor to
@beniamino939
5 жыл бұрын
It most certainly is! Best damn small block of the time period!
@packingten
4 жыл бұрын
I had an 83 Chrysler Cordoba I was east bound went 110 or so miles on like 3.1 or .2 gallons fuel a 318 engine so 32/33 mpg we were going sp limit cause cops were out that day. Best car I EVER OWNED!. RIP Chrysler Corp!. (Real one).
Is that Jim Bannon hosting this clip?
Linda Lovelace would be tickled.
Noine!!