Even though in the article they tended to put a negative spin on the
Magnum.
Their points tended to be deadly accurate. You need to do a lot of work
to get the
heads to flow, lifts over .400 inch don't net you much. The intake
manifold tends
to be a real struggle. The rocker arms tend to be just OK (below 5,000
RPM),
shafts tend to flex less and are good for high RPM applications. On the
good side,
rod length, 6.123 in.(good for building power), excellent block and
bottom end,
excellent fuel injection, and the best looking Trucks & SUV's on the
market today.
I don't know about you, but I'll start with something that's pretty
close to what I
want and just make it better.
Frank
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim, Donna, Erin, and Brian [SMTP:leefam@wcc.net]
> Sent: Thursday, August 06, 1998 11:50 AM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: Re: DML: RE: Re: What's Hot Rod's deal?
>
> At 02:08 PM 8/6/98 -0400, you wrote:
> >> I got my Sept issue of Hot Rod the other day. In the Magnum story
> they
> >> had, all they seemed to do was rag on the Magnum motor and it's
> >> shortcomings (to them).
> >
> > OK, so what were the shortcomings?
> >
> > I like Petersen Publishing, but they have too many damned models
> getting
> >in the way of the rods. ;)
> >
> > Ron
> >
>
> They said the heads only work well at low lifts and didn't respond
> well to
> porting. I thought Magnum heads were some of the best out there,
> ported or
> not. They also said that the rocker arm design was "a giant step
> backwards" and that Chrysler changed from the shaft design to the
> pivot
> design because of "AMC influence" (and to save $$) from when Chrysler
> bought AMC. I saw that as pretty much saying the AMC engineers were
> dumb.
> I thought the rocker arm comments were weird because it's the same
> design
> that's used on the Viper, right?
>
> I didn't see anything about the Magnum's advantages. Besides, if the
> Magnum sucks so bad, how come they're easy to hop up and how come they
> can
> keep pace with the Mustangs and Camaros?
>
> Brian
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