Chrysler in-line eight engine family 208, 221, 240, 261, 274, 282, 299, 324, 385
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- Today on what it’s like Chrysler in line eight which was Chryslers top shelf engine because they didn’t make a v12 or v16 which is interesting when you think about it
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I've been a mechanic all my life since the 60s and I love engines but I never got a chance to really study it but maybe I did see it how small those Straight A's were a 2:08 that's small for a straight 8 but they do have some interesting sizes
chrysler made some beautiful cars that imperial at 8:26 is stunning "I would rather"
First pick 37 Chrysler Airflow, second 1950 Chrysler T&C great info on the Chrysler straight 8's. also throw in a large Dodge truck from the era with the Imperial straight 8.
Cool you got the package in a week, Enjoy the book you're so welcome.
Thank you so much again =) I’ll put that book to good use a lot more information in text then on internet
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I love Straight 8s, but the Pontiac, Hudson, most Nashe's, DeSoto, most Chryslers, most Buicks, Huppmobile, were not luxury cars, and it is not true that anybody who was anybody in the luxury field fielded a Straight 8. Cadillac and Lincoln never did.
But they had v8s offered 8 cylinder
@@What.its.like. I am 68 years old. I have known that since I was a little kid. My point is that it is not true that all luxury cars offered a Straight 8. I never said that they didn't have 8 cylinders.
I should have said anyone who was anyone offered a eight cylinder back in the day
First scenario I'd have to go for the 1937 Chrysler Airflow. I just love how unusual it is compared to other cars of the time. Second one for me would be the 1936 Chrysler Airstream.
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I love the 37 airflow as well
Thanks for another interesting episode. Although I love Airflows I'd choose the 1932 Imperial CL because it is beautiful and the 1936 Airstream.
Happy you dig this episode =) going to cover the six just haven’t figured out how to break it up
Wow the WYR's ARE tough, all look Fantastic!! To pick just one in each though, I'd go with the Imperial in the first, and the Town and Country in the second!🤩😎
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Hi Jay! Another of my favorite engine episodes! Chrysler Corp. was SOLD on the straight 8 engine, weren't they! So many different engines! Of course they were spread over many makes for the company. WYR#1 1932 Chrysler, that one's a beauty! #2 That 1936 Coupe is SO interesting! You don't see too many of those, as the Airflow is more often seen.
Something I totally forgot to mention in the video was that was Chrysler’s top of the heap engine option they did not make v12 or v16 Which I think was very interesting.
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Another great video! I pick the 37 Airflow. My wife likes the 33 Imperial! and we both picked the 32 Imperial CL as our second choice!
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For WYR, it’s both the 1933 Chrysler Imperial and the 1937 Airflow, and the ‘36 Airstream.
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Of the choices, I’d rather have the 1933 Chrysler Imperial; 1950 Chrysler Town & Country
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Another cool video . For the WYR it’s gotta be the imperial and then the New Yorker, thanks and keep them coming, did I miss number 500 ??
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WYR CL
WYR Air Stream
It always strike me how strange it was to retool for a new engine that is only slightly larger than the one before.
I think your daughter is muscling in on your toodle doo. lol
Thx Jay
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Picture at 1:08 looks like there are only 5 main bearings
would expect 5 main bearings if it were derived from a 4 main bearing inline 6
Did Duesenberg start out with a 3 main bearing straight 8 that failed due to breaking crankshafts ?
The broken crankshafts were the result of using relatively high compression *and* a supercharger. But that was back in the early 20s, and I think they were 4 cyl racing engines. Some of those engines used only _two_ main bearings. Apparently, crank flex was so bad that the crank/rods would hit the side of the crankcase. I tried to find info on the 'net to find more details, but I couldn't find much. I got my info from a Car & Driver article from way back in the 60s in an article by Warren Weith.
I have a 327 straight 8 in my 48 Packard. Its amazingly smooth but you have to rev it a bit more than an equivalent v8 of the period.
Awesome =) going to cover the packard 8 one day
The Imperial's 385 engine is not of the same family as the other Chrysler Straight 8s.
Great to know
Dodge and de Soto engines are also different?
@@What.its.like. Not sure about the little ones - 208, 221, and 240, but the 260, 274, 282, 298, and 324 were of the same family.
@@jamesbosworth4191 thank you so much for that clarification. It was really hard to track down. Just figured I’d do all of them.
Would really love to do hupmobile eight Hudson eight but is finding information on what engines are in the same families or should I just do the whole all of them
Methinks you have heard a little bit too much of William Shatner!!!
Haha one day, I’ll do my impression of his impression of rocket Man
1933 Chrysler Imperial & 1950 Chrysler T&C. for me.
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Might be your best engine video ever! I love me some undersquare MoPar eights. I'd love to see an episode on the evolution of thinking on compression and square ratios from the 1930s to 1950s, the era when many different directions were explored. Two final notes - your daughter's "Toodle-ooh!" should be used in every video and I am totally envious of that Chrysler history book! Andy
Thank you so much Andy I’m glad you dig this episode. It was really hard to put it together.
Going to do one on the Chrysler six engine family as well as the flathead for the six episode I think I’m gonna break it into two parts because there is a lot of engines
That’s a great idea for a video
Have you had a chance to drive any car with a straight 8? Wondering if they are as smooth as advertised. My dad's Pontiac Chieftan had a straight 8 but I was much to young to remember anything about how it ran.
I have ridden in cars with straight eights, but I’ve never drove one. I’m hoping this year to drive a Packard… I kind of want to drive to Packards. I would really love to drive a six cylinder packard 37-42
That 6 cylinder model is what destroyed Packard's image.
1936 airstream
1938 4 door slant back big car but great styling 😉❤️❤️
I only had 2 straight 8s and 1 was in a speedster 🤔👍
Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
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I want to do a straight eight engine episode on all the makes listed would love to do Hupmobile.. I might have to go find some people that are in that club to track down some of that information I’m going to the Hudson meet in Erie in a month might be able to get some information on their eights
@@What.its.like. I had a 1937 and a 1938 .. one for parts..
1937 speedster was stuck but complete ..
1938 was really rough but smoked and ran ...
Always cover your investment and buy 2 and finish your project 🤔🤷....
Enjoy Happy Motoring ✌️🤠
That cut-away view of the cylindar and valves next to eachother blew my mind.
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Undersquare I guess! The cylinders look like gun barrels. Another thing- cracks me up how they seem to consider the horn to be part of the engine in their illustrations. I've noticed this in other manufacturers literature also.
That big trumpet thing is the air cleaner
no, Jay- look at 7:36 , the air cleaner is the pot- shaped object behind it. I think that might be a klaxton horn (an oooogaaa horn)
@@joebutchko2223 Sure looks like an "ooogaa" horn.
Ho n part of the he engine???
Another great engine family summary, Jay! And I'll take the first Imperial and the '50 Chrysler.
Awesome happy you dig this one
1950 Chrysler town & country
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Airflow - Town and country
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36 Airstream all the way.
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37 Airflow
36 Airstream
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Just saw a Chrysler straight 8 in a CUSTOM brand tractor at an antique tractor pull. It sounded great. Owner says there were less than a dozen made and sold.
That’s crazy never knew they used these engines in tractors
@@What.its.like. Chrysler 6's were commonplace, 8's were very rare.
The 6 was the big seller, but the 8 was not "very rare".
@@jamesbosworth4191 I was referring to use in tractors.
@@don66hotrod94 An 8 cylinder tractor sounds kool!
Interesting story about an engine family that I know little about. I do know that they used an aluminum head on some engines for higher compression and power. Funny how Chrysler jumped from an archaic engine design to one of the best ever engines! WYR= those two Imperials looked mighty tempting! I would have included the Airflow, but I'd want the original style. Cool book you got, glad to see viewers helping you out. Your daughter is soooo cute!
Chloe is a trip lol great choices
Went to Leonia NJ. High school. 1957 a airflow sat on the Street never moved the ass principal parked his business coupe mid 30s ford next to it daily quite a sight 🧐
I could only imagine what the school parking lot looks like back then we were just talking about that when I went to school I had a big land yacht and I parked next to people that had older cars like I had a friend who had a 77 Firebird I had another friend who had an 83 Camaro, which I raced and beat him… that was hilarious.. there were a few kids that had new cars. I graduated in 07 there was one kid that had a 2005 cobalt but there wasn’t that many Mercedes-Benz kids are driving cars that aren’t even that old high-end stuff which blows my mind. I was so poor growing up as a kid I remember working my ass off Summers just afford to go to the fair.. with a girl that didn’t work out.. but yeah
This is a very nice video. I don't know much about these old straight 8 engines. Thank you for educating me.
Happy you dig this one
Carburation?
I said that again, I’ve been trying to work on that. I just see the wrong thing sometimes.
Chrysler Air Flow39 Chrysler Imperial.
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Song - Dancing Queen by Abba. WYR: all of them, each for their own builds. The second group - the Town and Country all the way. Thank you as always, love your little assistant! ~ Chuck
She went upstairs and then she came back down, and I thought she went to bed for the night. I didn’t know she came back downstairs
Awesome choices you can’t go wrong with any of them .. the more 30s cars I do the more I really love them I would love to have a Chrysler CL from 1932 33 also, in my research, they only made 151 Chrysler imperials every single body style of 1933 which I think is absolutely insane
Great with the song you’re on the right track but not that song or band
Definitely disco era though
WYR: 1) Airflow! 2) '50 T&C! Gorgeous!
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WYR: All of them.
NTT: The Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive.
Awesome choices I would pick all of them as well. You’re on the right track. It’s not that song..
@@What.its.like. I saw that someone got it, and I never would've guessed that song or artist.
I wonder if these flat sixes were used in any wartime vehicles. Like the deuce and a half, for example? They seem well enough developed by that stage, once the US entered the war.
In a Lot of military vehicles and industrial applications including fatm equipment (Oliver combines etc)
Chrysler never made a flat 6. Porsche and the Corvair used that type of engine
Chrysler used 5 in line flathead sixes joined together in at least one tank early in WWII.
@@Troy440Dodge I've seen that engine! Quite a piece of work.
@@Troy440Dodge Cool.
Hey, some very entertaining and informative reading, right there.
Glad you enjoyed it!