20 Moments That Made the 426 Hemi Great | MotorTrend
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- David Freiburger takes us on a journey through time as he recalls 20 moments that made the 426 Hemi engine a legend. #MotorTrend #Hemi #Roadkill
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Victor Bray is a famous Aussie drag racer who runs a 1957 Chevy. He said once that he loved Chevy engines but he wants to win so he runs a Hemi.
In 1967 Petty won an unheard of 27 races & another feat that will never be duplicated, he won 10 races in a row.
Yea back then they had like 100 races a year. Still impressive.
@@chrispokorney6801 Yeah, they raced like 3 times a week back then.
His 200 WIN'S. Will never be beat eather!! Long live the king!!😀👍👍
an engine so great they changed the rules because of it.. Then came the wing cars
@@templarrising6299 Nascar banned those also cause Ford was crying it's not fair to race that big block Dodge hemi.
Freiburger is that crazy car enthusiast uncle I wish I had. I learn a lot from David and love these segments.
Brilliant!
I'm that person in my family
David is from Detroit area...
Absolutely he's the man to listen to when it comes to engine's
Man I Think Ive Learned More From Watching David Than I've Learned Anywhere Else. Love This Dude
Richard Petty said that the first time he drove a Hemi-powered car on the track he thought it felt like the engine was going to suck the hood into the carburetor. It was that strong. And then he won a bunch of races with it, so there’s that.
Don Garlits and all of the drag racers of the day thought the 426 was a total dog when compared to the 392. They refused to run them. Chrysler insisted that Garlits run a 426 so he did but he was mad. At the 32 degrees or so of timing that they ran in the 392 Hemi's the 426's made a lot less power. If they ran anymore timing in the 392's they would come apart. They all assumed the 426's would do the same thing. Garlits ran the 426 but he decided to teach Chrysler a lesson and he was going to put a lot of timing in the engine so it would explode during the race. I believe he advanced the timing to 38 or 40 degrees total. To his surprise the engine didn't explode but instead it came to life. He continued to advance the timing and each time it ran faster but never exploded. If I remember correctly they eventually settled on about 46 degrees of total timing and the 426 Hemi was the way more powerful than the old 392 at that point. They never looked back and the 426 drag legend was born.
1965 Richard Petty didn't stock car race, he went drag racing in protest against Nascar.
Yes, should have read the Petty wanted to do to the Hemi in Hot Rod mag . He wanted to blow it up, so he Advanced the timing on it in an attempt to blow it up, and found out it ran better.
@Art Vandelay I was referring to the 1960's. I own 3 392's and I love them although they are definitely old school technology and the bottom ends leave alot to be desired.
@@1967davethewave - All old Chryslers were slugs if running the factory spec. 'granny' ignition timing... friend bought a new '69 Roadrunner 383 4 speed and was so disappointed when my '65 GTO blew him away and he was running 15's... friends that did Chrysler racing told him to advance the timing and that put him into 13's and side by side with my GTO... ditto for my cousins '66 GTX 440" 4 speed...
I had a cat named Hemi. Sure do miss that fluffy critter. Got one named Shelby now. He's not as fast.
Yeah but he’s just as cool
I have one now! Baptized by the intense purr!
Now that's funny
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I have a cat named HEMI now !! That Boy can PURR !! LOL !! My buddy named his 3 cats HEMI, DANA AND WEDGE !! lmao !!
Back in the day, from my house, we could hear Ascot, a few miles to the North & Lions drag strip, a few miles to the East. We could ride our bikes to which ever one we wanted to. I liked Lions because we could walk around the pits for free & that was cool enough for a 10 yr old.
Epic...
Lions, OCIR, man, most all of them are gone......
I was there too..ten y.o.
Those were the "gool ol days" in the land of sunshine in the west. John you cherish those memories and tell your kids and grandkids what it was like back in the day...when you could buy 102+ OCT RON fuel for your car. I barely remember these brutes. They were huge fearsome cars, very fast, very loud with bright, beautiful paint jobs and some with vinyl tops too. 30 to 35 cents/gallon of gas in late 1960's.
That makes a lasting impression ill bet!
I just love design and engineering from the 60's. There was such a variation in designs, engines, suspensions and crazy factory teams. Camaro's, Mustangs, Cuda, Dart, Challenger and the list goes on. Cars with real character. As discussed the 246 Hemi was there but it would have gone further as Ford and Mopar were looking at multivalve overhead cam designs. Just great !!!!
The cars we have now seem so sterile in comparison. Take off the badges and you cant tell them apart...... Long live the muscle car era !!!!
IIRC, when Chrysler pulled out of NASCAR in 1965, the Pettys pulled out too and went drag racing. Taking the fans with them.
I was wondering why that wasn't mentioned... www.hotrod.com/articles/the-year-richard-petty-went-drag-racing/
Flip flops and insane engine knowledge.. take a bow David 😎
Don Garlits didn't originally like the 426 because it wasn't as fast as the 392, so he cranked up the timing to try and blow it up. He ended up setting a track record.
Yep, he was the first to reach and later surpass 200 mph in the 1/4
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And back up 10 or so years and he didn’t like the early Hemi because he felt it was a heavy truck type engine best suited to the tow car. So on a lark he ran the tow car down the quarter and was surprised to learn it was nearly as quick as the rail.
King of The Dragsters
He was experimenting with Nitromethane. Once he solved the timing issue he then set records. This is well documented.
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Great vid David thank you. My twin and I grew up during the hemi years and indeed owned a '68 Barracuda and he and '69 swinger. We were lucky to have those let alone the awesome hemi. So many legends mentioned in your vid none quite as big as Big Daddy and King Richard.
Booyaa!! The mighty Elephant
Dave, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Had a friend in high school with a Road Runner with a hemi/4 speed. Good times.
I had a 1969 383 4 speed Roadrunner in high school (1986), thought it was cool, my buddy had a A12 440 6bbl auto Roadrunner, much cooler! Hemi cars were rare even back then...Thanks for sharing!
@@earlyetman5588 you road in a A12 roadrunner
@@earlyetman5588what color was your 383? Red or Orange? Did it have a TM6 & a Holley, or a DP4B & a A.V.S?
Elephant power; ✊tom Hoover - great engineers back in the day !!!
In 1966 I got my driver's license and Chrysler brought out the street hemi. That was the greatest hemi moment for me. In 1966 NASCAR required one car per dealership to be sold to qualify an engine for racing. At this point Chrysler said "Hold my beer" and sold over 1,500 street Hemi's to the public. Take that NASCAR. Street Hemis were available through dealers for 6 years, thousands were sold for about $700 more than a similar wedge car.
Til 1970 the rules required only 500 builds. Chrysler just build more. In 70 the rules cganged and plymouth had to build one car per two dealerships
Great history. Being 63, I was raised reading Motor Trend magazine. And I always waited for "Motor Trend's Car of The Year."
Don’t forget on “Two Lane Blacktop” the two were ,in a drive in restaurant, picking a car to race and the mechanic said that’s a hemi , so they didn’t race that one. Pretty epic even for a movie
But the '55 Chevy with L88 427 would have actually beat the Hemi car...
@@BuzzLOLOL Not on top of it's lid! Oh wait, that's American Graffiti
@@THRASHMETALFUNRIFFS - The '55 in American Graffiti wouldn't roll over, they eventually ended up rolling it over by hand! And it was a junkyard car, not the L88 car...
@@BuzzLOLOL Wow, that's a FunFact!! Thanks man. I went to Graffiti Nights car cruise in Modesto one time about 35 years ago and had a blast and been on that road where they shot the scene which was no longer out in the country in the 80's!
When Packard introduced their 320cu and 352cu V8s in 1955, they came with a 5.00in bore STOCK. The following year, the 374cu joined the lineup; and the 374 had the same bore as the other two. On the 374, you could get dual quads on an Offenhauser manifold. The net result was 450HP at 5500rpm.
Sadly, the engines were instantly rare, and only a scant few ever made their way into the hands of hot rodders
Excellent video but omitted how Nascar and the Nhra shut Chrysler out of competition to protect GM.
That's weak
EPA choked Chevy out of competition
@@scottbaker1800 No, he's right, it was a major conspiracy. These same people, at Nascar and NHRA later went on to convince all the national leaders in the entire world who normally cannot bear to talk to each other to conspire to create an imaginary virus just so they could tell Neil to go Puckett and squeeze Studley's Evernuts and tell everyone else to stay home and wear a mask.
The true NHRA story is that they forced bigger and bigger weight penalties in Super Stock so Ford and Chevy could keep up. Fact not fiction. Teams like Sox and Martin were having to carry around 100s of pounds of extra weight, so guys like Grumpy Jenkins would have a chance. So they said FU NHRA and went to AHRA.
I remember something about Ford complaining to nascar officials too or something like that, I'm not sure, it's been a while since I heard those old stories about the big 3 and nascar.
That engine has quite a thoroughbred history of racing.
The only history lesson I’ve ever enjoyed. Thanks Professor Flip-Flop!
Oh yeah I always wanted a 426 Hemi for my 70 Roadrunner. No car like a Mopar!
Whenever me and a few of my gear head friends get together if the word "HEMI" is mentioned the hats come off , drove a slightly modified one once ...what a friggin animal
♥♥ Yep! The 426 Hemi was a powerhouse. In late '66, I owned a Chevrolet El Camino, powered by a 396. Locally, there wasn't a vehicle around that could match its speed (in an unsanctioned drag).
Then a local young man bought a '66 Dodge Charger, powered by a 426 Hemi.
The vehicle was a beauty to look at. It was black, with rose-tinted windows all around. Beautiful!
And, of course, I lost my reputation for having the fastest car around.
Oh well. Nothing lives forever.
Rose tint was a thing?
My personal Hemi moment was at 14 years old. A friend and I cycled to the local Chrysler dealer to see a rumoured Hemi car. There in the showroom was a recently traded-in '70 'Cuda with a 426 race Hemi. It looked like it started life as an AAR. Now without the stripes, Cragar SS wheels, big and littles and exhaust cut-outs. There was something wicked about those dual Carters seen through the AAR hood scoop. In a crazy twist, my 20ish year old neighbour bought that beast and man I knew what was going on at dinner the night he brought it home. The whole house shook. I lived for about 3 years with that orange fantasy parked on the street in front of our house. It terrorized my parents but it was the stuff of dreams at 14.
That was the greatest Hemi history I have seen yet
Absolutely amazing history lesson! I hope more of these are to come.
I love your history telling, thank you for another great article!!! Looking forward to the next episode!!
What a great episode!!! Awesome photos and stories!!!
Well my 350 Chevy...
never mind
Thank you for this awesome and interesting video, guys. Long live 426 Hemi!
Ford's Boss 429 motor used a partial HEMI head and a lot of motorcycle engine's at that time, such as Honda with their 350 and 450 twin's used HEMI heads with domed pistons. Tells you how good that design really was.
“And When I’m gone, you can call me foolish, but hopefully not boring. I will have lived.” #DavidFreiburger #Freiburger
Great quote David!
Great episode please keep them coming you are an awesome guy with lots of cool stuff going on
To put some sound with this, have a look at the vid " Richard Petty's 200mph Plymouth Superbird On The Road " on the channel "Goodwood Road & Racing "
Really liking the content coming out of the garage. Seems like this has just been a great time to unload years of knowledge onto video.
Thanks for filling in the gaps Dave ! I grew up in this era- Hot rod magazines were the only source of information - the 1/24 scale hurst hemi/the little red wagon /and the Don Garlits dragster were kits I built and will prob build them again as bookshelf monuments to the Hemi.
This was a great historical summary. Do some more like it on other subjects.
Thank you for an honest and accurate lesson!
Excellent content!
David is the man. What a fun way to make a living!
Great history lesson. So want MORE!
Excellent post. Cheers.
The Fry man , always a wealth of info ....
For a Chevy guy this was awesome ...
I love the history. my dad is 70.. mention 426 and he talks of the 4 barrel like it was from outer space. seeing a hood move downward towards it . I later learned richard petty described it similar. It is hilarious.. people on the street just driving the world most famous monster engine for decades to come. Today has returned a lot of that freedom, with many engines I digress.
Cool video! Super informative. The HEMI is truly an automotive icon.😎
Fun-nominal history lesson!
Thanks so much for these Hemi Powered facts !
IMHO Keith Black & the hemi are who Shelby is to the Mustang.
I did not have a dream hemi of my own but I somehow still miss the '71 airgrabber GTX
I sold for 5 grand with extra body pannels, oe tips, extra air grabber switch and boxed oe interior seats, headliner, etc.... it could get me down if I let todays value sink in. But then I think of the click when turning the key before ignition, and the good ol days of more money than brains.... I'm glad I survived those days and enjoyed many nights @ Brotherhood Raceway in San Pedro spending less than what dinner would cost for entry and run what you brung all night.
GREAT MEMORIES!!! & no regrets!!!
Nice presentation. Thanks.
During the oil embargo’s in the 70s people were dumping the hemi because it cost .50 just to start it. 😆 I bought a 69 rt charger that I wish today I never sold. Muscle cars were a dime a dozen and I would sell them after a year of driving. I had many, but the 426 was my favorite next to my 68 rt charger the I purchased as my next toy. I was fortunate to have experienced all types of muscle cars but Mopar was and is still my favorite
So true. My neighbor when I was a teenager in 1975 had a hemi charger for sale $800 bucks. It was a gas pig no body wanted it.
Great 426 Hemi lesson.
Was hoping you would talk about the ball stud Hemi a little but still a very good history lesson of the hemi. Thanks and stay safe
Love these daily episodes. They are a great break while rebuilding my 64 1/2 Mustang.
i hope with a 426 hemi
Is it one of the first 200 which has no seam line down the middle of the hood because I know someone that has one.
The only good thing to come out of quarantine. These videos from Freiburger
The story told by Garlits trying to get the 426 to work in his dragsters is in my top 5% favorites of all drag racing time ! (look it up)
My grandfather at 8:22 ❤️
keith black?
Great vid
Very interesting Freiburger, thanks for sharing.
I've never seen a real Hemi in the flesh, if I did I would cry. The most radical car I ever sat in was a '68 Road Runner, 440 6 pack car with acid dipped body panels, rear seat delete, factory cage, radio, heater delete and so on. Pretty wild car
In Northwest Tennessee (up in Union I believe) there is this little science park/museum/ bunch of other stuff where in one place there is a 440 superbird, and casually sitting behind some of the other cars was an unrestored 426 hemi just sitting on the floor. If you are ever in west TN area that place is definitely worth checking out.
Had a hand built 1968 Hemi Dart, race on track, and in the streets of NYC in the late 1970s into the late 1980s. Full roller motor, lots of Sox and Martin parts.. It was unbeatable.. Ran a 557 gear, and could wheel stand at will..
Love it want more of it.
Ur the best david. Good luck and be careful
A little side note, after coming out with the Hemi, Ford came out with the 427 cammer which was also banned by NASCAR. In 66 they let the Hemi back in but still banned the cammer. In 1966 the Hemi produced 580 to 600 hp, the cammer produced 650 to 685 hp.
NASCAR let the Hemi run after Chrysler had sold 500 units because that was the rule. Ford never put the cammer into production so it was not allowed, they never sold 500 units, therefore, it never met the requirement to run in NASCAR.
Nice one David.
1967 picture of Petty running with Unity Raceway , Unity Maine painted on the side of his car .
awesome!!!
No its the greatest Engine ever built. EVER
Greatest now is Mercury Marine DOHC Chevy LS 427" V8 !!!
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The 426 Max wedge was very underrated comparing to the hemi but the hemi got the beauty pageant
@@josephmachado3285 - The 426 wedge would have won in sales if it could make power like a hemi... or a Chevy...
Ay Frei..... You're the BEST!.. 🤛😎🤜
Best RUclips channel ever!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fabulous. Proud to own in New Zealand a 2008 SRT 6.1 Hemi. The heritage of the Hemi and the Chrysler brand for speed is still the bees knees.
I'm build a 71 Cuda which originally had a 340 n automatic. With the 340 long gone I planned to drop in a 440. Then I picked up a 68 Elephant block. Now it's getting a 426 bored .070" over to 440 with Aries forged 10.5 to 1 pistons, Eagle H beam rods and Lunati hydraulic cam. Heads are aluminum Dart Pro heads. Should make the Cuda talk loud. Yes it's also getting a 4 speed.
Cool video thanks
Very nice, Freiburger. The only thing missing is a quick shout out to those responsible at
Chrysler for creating the engine to begin with.
Tom Hoover ("Father of the Hemi"), Don Moore, Pete Hagenbuch, John Wehrly, et al -
the list goes on.
Chrysler had a real skunkworks going in engineering for decades - and given today's products,
there still is over at SRT to an extent.
-Ed on the Ridge
What a absolutely fantastic history lesson for us Mopar lovers.. 😁😁👍👍
Excellent bio David .
Thank you, Sir!
Brilliant video. Thank you. Mopar or no car!
Thanks to Dave for explaining the diff. between the 392 and 426’s (Thought they both were from / by Chrysler).
I own a Hemi, and it's stock, and it's amazing to me. That engine really rocks my Dodge 😊!
I read in Big Daddy Don garlits Drag Racing museum. That the reason he made that hemi so fast is he was purposely trying to blow it up so he could go back to his old motor. He set the timing all crazy and the hemi came alive.
That's true. The old 392's had a very light bottom end and couldn't take a lot of timing but ran very well with their much smaller chambers with only about 25 degrees of timing. Putting much more in would grenade them. The 426 with it's huge chambers needed more timing but no one realized that they were designed from the get go to be race engines and could easily hold up to the extra pressure 35 or 40 degrees on a supercharged engine would have. Boy did they ever hold up and that made them the best race engine ever. 392 chambers are around 100cc's while 426 chambers are a whopping 170cc's.
Love the program freiberger
The 45 thumbs-down guys must be driving Chevys are Ford's LOL
Wonder if Chevy fans know that Chevrolet wasn’t even an American, and Ford was a Communist sympathizer. Dodge Brothers were the only real Americans!
Ford and Chevy LOSERS LOL when they can't keep up they ban it and keep banning it.
@@mikesbbody please explain the SOHC engine? Dodge got it banned.
I loved this video,but as usual there is so much that was left out.every dodge guy I've ever known always want ed to race my stock mundane grocery getter so he could get a win.
Anytime I've raced a dodge on a level playing field I've one.😂 you dodge guys🤣😂
And the dodge brothers worked for Ford.
The most iconic American V8 ever produced. It was, is, and will forever be known as the ultimate in American muscle. So iconic that the word "Hemi" is all that needs to be said to immediately bring to mind the image of those huge valve covers with the spark plug wires going straight down the center of them. It demands respect from any true car guy, no matter your favorite brand. While today's tech is incredible, the Hemi was ahead of it's time and is still relevant today. Just my opinion.
These guys are also big time car enthusiasts, but like myself favor the Mopars and are my top choice to
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What a great history lesson
Groovy Man ;)
Excellent story. MOPAR. 👍✌
My dad was telling me a story that a mechanic that built Hemi engines would put them on 6000 RPM's and go to lunch for 30 minutes and if it was still running when he got back it was Good.
My grandpa was a MOPAR salesman from 1946-1977 & i grew up with all those wonderful Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge products & I get "elephantitus" just thinking about the 426 HEMI - MOPAR OR NO CAR!
Great stuff, brings back a lot of memories! (Yeah I’m an old guy... I’m Dave’s age lol)
He sure doesn’t look his age though, must be because he’s doing something he loves!
so cool
During that mid 60's era my dad would drop my brother and I off at Irwindale Raceway. I was 10 to 13 years old when we lived in west Covina - we could hear the dragsters from 10 miles away, so my dad thought it would be fun for us. Wow, was it ever. So I saw the Little Red Wagon, and early funny cars like the Orange Crate, Pisano Corvette, and the hemi thing. Pits were completely open, and dangerous - I got a eye burning face full of nitromethane from standing too close when a crew turned the engine over while working on it. And no one used ear protection! In 67 we moved to Laguna Niguel, so we went to the Orange County Raceway up till it closed down.
Bring back roadkill!!!
Rider2006 1 it’s like $3 a month, go get MotorTrend on demand, totally worth it
The 427 tunnel port and the Boss429 won more NASCAR races than the Hemi. The 427sohc was banned from NASCAR but did
a number on the Hemi at the NHRA. The real funny cars were 1966 Mercury Comets.
People tend to forget that and get all crazy when someone mentions hemi or mopar
I learned more from this than any single episode of Roadkill
Stopped watching Nascar when they went to formula roundy round. Watched the first race with the Daytona chargers and super bee's . Coolest stock cars ever.
Total domination in racing was achieved with the 426 hemi with Richard Petty/NASCAR, Big Daddy Don Gartlits/TOP FUEL, and Sox & Martin/PRO STOCK .So Ford introduced the 429 "semi-hemi" designed to beat the hemi. But by then,the damage had been done. I like how Dodge produced 505 Charger Daytona's and 1920 Plymouth Superbirds and won the Daytona 500 with Richard Petty back in a Mopar. Winged Mopars placed 1sr,2nd,3rd,5th,8th,and 10th in 1970, They were going over 200 mph,to fast so NASCAR then restricted the cubic inch to 358 cu. In. Those were the days.
The 1964 Plymouth was so fast, the first time Petty took it out on the track at Daytona, he fell out of the seat. They had to bolt a 2x4 to the side of it to hold him in
That's pretty neat
Ford still holds the fastest closed track speed record with the Boss429 engine, but it is a hemi head, so there you go