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I have a '57 392 hemi with the serial number instead of beginning with NE57,it begins with 3NE57.(complete engine # is 3NE57-1787).Can anyone tell me the meaning of the 3?I have owned 2 392s with this same 3 beginning to the engine number.Is this maybe the engine for the 300C??

On the Castings Page,under "Intakes",it lists intake number 1637625 as going on a '55 392.Is this an error,or did they produce a 392 in '55?Also I have a single 4bbl dual plane intake #1731703 1, that come off a 392(3NE57--)that was in a '55 DeSoto Firefilte Coronado.Can anybody expound on...

Well,I finally got the thing torn completely down,and here're the numbers.Make what you will of them.I'd really like to know what I've got here.(I'm beginning to strongly suspect that this is a "Frankenstein"). (A)Engine serial#3NE57-1787.Block#s-1673729 1 B287."1"on each side of...

Here are the numbers: 1.Exhaust-1536377-2 There's other data on them,but this is all you get. 2.Block-number"1"on each side of block. Top R.side between valley pan flange and head gasket seam,about halfway from each end:1673729 1 B287. Rear of block,inside bellhousing bolt pattern at about...

I,m very well aware of the fact that the 4bolt exhaust was also used on Dodge trucks.I was referring only to the Chrysler300's.I don't need to conduct further research.I have all of that type of information in the approximately 50 pages of material I received from the Chrysler museum.

Well,I finally got the research data from the walter P.Chrysler museum archives section.I've ascertained for myself beyond doubt now,that my engine is a 57 300C code399 390hp 392.I have a photograph showing all 3 exhaust manifold designs used on Chrysler300's from 1955 through 1958.The 21/2" lo...

I have a good idea.If my 392 turns out to be a 375hp,that's not gonna stop me.I'm a precision machinist as well as a mechanic.From what I've been told both engines are basically the same,the only differences are the high compression heads and the cam.I'll just mill down the heads and have a cam cust...

Okay,so it's not wasted time.I'll go along with that.I just thought that this was starting to turn into more of a pissing contest than an exchange of information between different people,who it seems to me,all have a store of some amount of knowledge,part empirical,part conjecture,part innocently mi...

Thanks for trying,and my regrets for wasting mine and your time and the space on this forum by coming here looking for information I could depend on from a qualified expert with bibliographical data. I should've remembered a lesson I learned a long time ago,and which never seems to sink in:For relia...

I'm tired of this.I can,and have,quoted chapter and verse for what little accurate information I've gotten so far from the published texts and I'm also tired of "armchair experts"giving me even more incorrect,misleading,incomplete,and inaccurate information based on what's "generally ...

Where did you get your information from?The information I have is from The Standard Catalog of Chrysler 1924-1990, first ed.,by John Lee(Krause Publications),Special Interest Autos,iss.#107/Oct.1988,put out by Hemmings Motor News,Motors Auto Repair Manual 1950-1959, what little information I've been...

Hate to tell you this,but you have some erroneous information.Chrysler didn't make a 380hp 392 in 57,the 58 390hp 392 was the fuel injected one, which mine isn't and 50's Chrysler hemi engine numbers were such that the first three placeholders(3NE) in the first half of the number mean it's a Chrysle...

I have a 392 hemi out of a 57 Chrysler 300C sport coupe.Can anybody interpret the engine number,and tell me whether or not it's the 390hp model?I've been told that it is,and it has a lot of the symptoms,but I want to know from the engine number,so I can be completely sure.The engine number is:3NE57-...

Chrysler built two versions of the 390 hp 392.The first was an extra cost option in the 57 300C Sport Coupe,which was a no power option model with a 3 speed on the column.The report I have is,Chrysler built only 150 of them.Just enough to qualify as a production model,so they could race it on the Na...

Does anybody know where I can get technical data on this engine?It was an extra cost option,and from the best I've been able to figure out,they only produced 150 of them.But I may be wrong.I haven't been able to chase down much more than the facts that they made them,they were only available in the ...

The v-16 hemi (they only made 5,I think),was meant to be an aircraft engine,but the war ended before it went into production.They installed it in a P-47 Thunderbolt,and made 2 speed runs with it at 15,000 ft..On the 1st run,it was radar clocked at 504 mph,and the next day,on the second run it was cl...