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Originally Posted by Steve Barcak
T & D is now making their shaft system for the 392/417.
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I don't see it on T&D's website- could you sometime e-mail me that picture (via my profile)? Thanks. I just can't visualize a single-rocker-shaft hemi valvetrain.
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The original engine you refer to is the one I now have as best I know.
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Did you buy it from Dave Stoll? Or was there mention of Stoll having owned it?
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I thought yours was also an original. no?
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No. At the time, I assumed there were no complete hemi's to be found.
I dealt with John House, a M/T employee, for the heads about twenty years ago, and sent the money to Mickey. This was when Hot Rod Magazine still ran classified ads and the heads had been listed there. After seeing the ad, I was on the phone 24/7 until someone arrived in the office Monday morning!
Shortly after getting the heads, Dan Dunscombe (who, I understand, parked his 18-wheeler at M/T and helped them out some) alerted me to one of the Harvey Aluminum blocks in a warehouse, and I called Mickey and managed to buy it. After I broke that block in '92, Dan found me the one now in my engine, another Harvey Aluminum one.
Fritz found me a few pieces- valves, rocker covers, cam, etc.- even a 400 MPH Cragar timing cover, complete with a 5-bolt plate to mount the Harman-Collins flathead mags they used on unblown "Challenger" engines! (Okay, so it only went 357 or so- but doesn't "400 MPH cover" sound great?)
Thanks for taking time out to post here Steve.