Hemi Rear Coolant Ports

[Couper]

Does anyone have these rear ports piped together? Do they have to be?
Thanks

 

[Old Iron]

They do not have to be plumbed together.
Mine and all my Hemi friends are not and we've never had an issues.

 

[Couper]

They do not have to be plumbed together.
Mine and all my Hemi friends are not and we've never had an issues.

Thanks OI that's great to know. I don't have a lot of room between the blanks and the firewall.

 

[Old Iron]

Right on
The only reason there are block off plate is, so you can use a head on either side.
That's a Helluva Hemi you're building, I'm envious.

 

[Couper]

Right on
The only reason there are block off plate is, so you can use a head on either side.
That's a Helluva Hemi you're building, I'm envious.

Oh wow.....the heads are interchangeable, I didn't know that.
Thanks for the nice words on the Hemi.....appreciate that!

 

[MercuryMac]

I must be one of OI's friends, because I have a Baby Hemi [in the picture] with the port holes blocked off. This engine came out of a gravel truck. The way this guy drove the gravel truck, earned him the nickname 'Cannonball'. I trucked along side of him for many years and there is no question about how he drove. If a Hemi in a gravel truck can be whaled on for twelve hours a day at top revs, loaded half the time, then it should do fine in a gentleman's hotrod, without the crossover pipe.

 

[Couper]

I must be one of OI's friends, because I have a Baby Hemi [in the picture] with the port holes blocked off. This engine came out of a gravel truck. The way this guy drove the gravel truck, earned him the nickname 'Cannonball'. I trucked along side of him for many years and there is no question about how he drove. If a Hemi in a gravel truck can be whaled on for twelve hours a day at top revs, loaded half the time, then it should do fine in a gentleman's hotrod, without the crossover pipe.

Thank you Mac.....and thank you for the gentlemen