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Originally Posted by CaptRMW
The 637 CI is a 1219 LB. boat anchor. Double the weight of most big block engines with a whopping 275 HP @ 2800 RPM and a 7.5-1 compression ratio. You could seal up your bed and weld a lid on it and use it for a fuel tank.  |
But that 275HP @ 2800 would be 515 pounds of torque @ 2800,, that's near Duramax territory! When diesel was 2x the cost of gas it might have been rational,, But with so little difference in fuels cost today,, A really cool collectors item for sure. but at probably about the same weight as a Duramax, but 1/4 the reliability or longivity... I think it would stay in the 'collectors corner' if it were mine.
When I was a young whipper-snapper my old man had a 50's International 5ton flat bed monster. with a 549 gas motor and a 2bbl. That thing made the early Hemi's look small.