[Stan Weiss]

Originally Posted by Dragncar

I am a fan of anything Dave does.
That configuration is the best we have without going to some fully canted BBC style crap.
Still has ex in about the same places as a RAV. Still has a 4 bolt valve cover. Inline valves. Its what PMD "should" have done instead of their version of the RAV.
Who knows where Pontiac might have been if they had been allowed to develop and not held back. ? If someone based a SOHC or a DOHC off the 1970 Hemi engine they floated I would consider it a Pontiac. That engine used a RAV crank and had the ex in the RAV location.

427 Hemi SOHC

This was a project started with the end goal of building a 427 Hemi.[citation needed] Pontiac asked Mopar (Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth) for help in designing it and making it work. Surprisingly, Mopar actually agreed and sent over several of the engineers that designed both the 392 and 426 Hemi; the goal of making a Pontiac Hemi succeeded but was never produced.

https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Pontia...#427_Hemi_SOHC

Stan