The HEMI is BOSS and the BOSS is Chrysler
Posted: Sat Mar 06, 2010 1:41 pm
I've been to several forums where the amazing, "clean-sheet" BOSS 500, Ford nitro engine is being
discussed at length, as is the equally amazing Ford Pro stock engine. Quite frankly, I'm fed up with
all of the smoke and mirrors bull$hit involving these engines. As far as I am concerned, if both of these
engines were literary works they'd be products of pure plagiarism. They are copies; and whether or not
they're good copies isn't the issue. Chrysler designed engines are being called Ford engines and the
following is my viewpoint on this:
If you are employed by or contracted from outside into the office of developmental engineering by an
established entity like "Chrysler Corporation", the signature architecture and consequent design inherent
of that engineering becomes the intellectual property of the corporation; with created nomenclature such
as "HEMI" becoming registered trademarks indentified with that corporation.
Therefore, anyone and everyone who has disassembled, refurbished, augmented, modified, "copied",
photographed, or even voiced the term "HEMI" is regarding a Chrysler engine.
There are several hemispherical combustion chamber type engines from different manufacturers.
They have their own individual designations. Only the Chrysler is correctly called the HEMI.
The NHRA Top Fuel engine is not just a hemi. It is The HEMI. It is a derivative of the Chrysler design.
The HEMI's present geometry's are an interpolation of Chrysler's base engineering from the stock engine.
That the new materials of construction and architectural advancements seriously exceed the original
cast iron and steel forgings will come as no surprise to anyone that understands the requirements
of that metallurgy and the expectations of that architecture; as that has always been Chrysler's intention.
Tom Hoover, the godfather of the HEMI has already called it "honing and evolving". Who better to know?
Who better to say? Even in its stock form the 426 Chrysler HEMI is a full-throttle racing engine. It is no
longer rated at 425 horsepower. It is mathematically calculated at 9 thousand horsepower; much to the
serious chagrin of everyone else that think they know how to build an engine.
That the nitro block and its components don't originate in the Chrysler foundry does not change the inherent
design. It is unmistakeably Chrysler. MOPAR fuel motor block P/N P3690433.
All of the aforementioned is why a Keith Black HEMI has always been a Chrysler engine; as are "all" of
the present hyper-alloy billet versions of the NHRA Top Fuel HEMI. They are Chrysler type engines.
The people reproducing the NHRA Top Fuel engines didn't just pull them out of the ether. I would dare say
that most of them have never had an original idea in their lives; and in their lifetimes they have "created"
nothing. They needed a blueprint. They needed to make reference to and develop upon an existing, engineered
structure. That structure is Chrysler's HEMI.
It is for all of these reasons and for others as well that the "Fraud/Farce" BOSS 500 "is not" a Ford; neither
is it a clean-sheet engine.
It is indubitably recognizable as a Chrysler HEMI regardless of being "anodized" with ignorance and corrupted
by Ford specs.
discussed at length, as is the equally amazing Ford Pro stock engine. Quite frankly, I'm fed up with
all of the smoke and mirrors bull$hit involving these engines. As far as I am concerned, if both of these
engines were literary works they'd be products of pure plagiarism. They are copies; and whether or not
they're good copies isn't the issue. Chrysler designed engines are being called Ford engines and the
following is my viewpoint on this:
If you are employed by or contracted from outside into the office of developmental engineering by an
established entity like "Chrysler Corporation", the signature architecture and consequent design inherent
of that engineering becomes the intellectual property of the corporation; with created nomenclature such
as "HEMI" becoming registered trademarks indentified with that corporation.
Therefore, anyone and everyone who has disassembled, refurbished, augmented, modified, "copied",
photographed, or even voiced the term "HEMI" is regarding a Chrysler engine.
There are several hemispherical combustion chamber type engines from different manufacturers.
They have their own individual designations. Only the Chrysler is correctly called the HEMI.
The NHRA Top Fuel engine is not just a hemi. It is The HEMI. It is a derivative of the Chrysler design.
The HEMI's present geometry's are an interpolation of Chrysler's base engineering from the stock engine.
That the new materials of construction and architectural advancements seriously exceed the original
cast iron and steel forgings will come as no surprise to anyone that understands the requirements
of that metallurgy and the expectations of that architecture; as that has always been Chrysler's intention.
Tom Hoover, the godfather of the HEMI has already called it "honing and evolving". Who better to know?
Who better to say? Even in its stock form the 426 Chrysler HEMI is a full-throttle racing engine. It is no
longer rated at 425 horsepower. It is mathematically calculated at 9 thousand horsepower; much to the
serious chagrin of everyone else that think they know how to build an engine.
That the nitro block and its components don't originate in the Chrysler foundry does not change the inherent
design. It is unmistakeably Chrysler. MOPAR fuel motor block P/N P3690433.
All of the aforementioned is why a Keith Black HEMI has always been a Chrysler engine; as are "all" of
the present hyper-alloy billet versions of the NHRA Top Fuel HEMI. They are Chrysler type engines.
The people reproducing the NHRA Top Fuel engines didn't just pull them out of the ether. I would dare say
that most of them have never had an original idea in their lives; and in their lifetimes they have "created"
nothing. They needed a blueprint. They needed to make reference to and develop upon an existing, engineered
structure. That structure is Chrysler's HEMI.
It is for all of these reasons and for others as well that the "Fraud/Farce" BOSS 500 "is not" a Ford; neither
is it a clean-sheet engine.
It is indubitably recognizable as a Chrysler HEMI regardless of being "anodized" with ignorance and corrupted
by Ford specs.