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Return of the Hemi: What are the limits?
Jun 6, 2025
Filmed just before news broke of the Hemi’s return in the Ram 1500, you can see my prediction was correct... but I can’t prove it!! ;) Mopar‘s Hemi V8 is coming back, but not quite the way you might think—a choice driven by past choices. #mopar #hemi #ram #ramtrucks
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hi there Dave from stealthpower.com and
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also motel.com stealth power for news
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motel for history so here I'm I am to
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talk about the latest on the Hemi rumor
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mill and this one comes from my own
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sources who are pretty clear on the fact
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that yes we are going to get Hemi V8s
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mopar insiders broke that story and it's
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still going to happen it looks as though
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they actually never really planned to
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drop them in the first place and one
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can't help but wonder if they did
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because they were being cheap because
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the advantage of making hurricanes in
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Saltio Mexico is that they get to reuse
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all the equipment that the Hemi used to
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use right now they never stop making the
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6.4 L truck Hemi so I shouldn't say when
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they stopped making Hemis insult but you
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know what I mean when he stopped making
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the 57 62 and 64 SRT Hemis the
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392 insult it was so that they could
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make their hurricane engines there
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instead and a more sensible plan
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probably would have been to build new
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facilities or reuse existing facilities
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in the United States and I think that
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the main reason I you know I don't know
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this but I think the main reason that
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they did it the way that they did was to
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save money on the equipment now some of
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the equipment was very much past its
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prime and worn out that undoubtedly has
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not been reused but a lot of it is still
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quite good and that probably has been
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reused well I'm told that that's been
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reused to make hurricanes a lot of this
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equipment is very flexible old Chrysler
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Corporation back in the late 80s had
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started to move to flexible factories
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they did a very good job they got very
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very flexible even if the people who run
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the company very often don't take
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advantage of it because it would cost
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money to develop new products and new
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vehicles new engines that are similar to
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the existing ones but different enough
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to attract new customers
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uh so basically the new engines because
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Sultio is using the old V8 equipment
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they have to get new V8 equipment and
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put it into Dundee and that new
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equipment is expected to be there around
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August and because they're not going to
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be doing it as a single engine high
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volume line they're going to be doing it
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from what I've been told they're using
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uh robotics and machinery that are more
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suited to a slower line but one that's
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much more flexible so in theory as I
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understand it they can make 5.7s 392s
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and Hellcats on the same line and the
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equipment will bear that i mean they
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can't use the same castings for the
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blocks but actually uh everything else
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they should be able to do well most
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everything else they should be able to
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do on the same line and have the
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flexible equipment make up for it what
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this might also mean is that the long
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rumored upgraded 5.7 Hemi might finally
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see the light of day and again I am
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assuming because we knew that there was
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an upgraded 5.7 Hemi that was being
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developed and then we never saw it and I
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think that we can assume might be wrong
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here that the reason why is because it
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would have cost too much to retool the
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main high volume assembly line and the
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hurricane in many ways is a better
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engine let's not fool ourselves about
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this more power better economy 10%
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better economy people laugh it off ho ho
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ho 10% that's nothing that's a lot 10%
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off your bill i mean wouldn't you like
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to get 10% off your gasoline bill a year
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well hurricane the other thing about the
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Hurricane is the regular Hurricane the
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standard output that puts out more power
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than the Hemi over a broader RPM range
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more torque starting lower that that
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engine takes regular gas and the Hemi is
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specked to 89 and then some people
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object and say "Well I always put
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regular into my 5.7 Hemi." And I say
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"Well then you're not getting the rated
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output so the difference in power is
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even greater and probably you're not
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getting the rated gas mileage." And then
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again the Hurricane would be even better
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the high output Hurricane uses the same
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octane gas as the 392 big surprise and
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that's where we are today so it does
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look like the 5.7 Hemi and the 6.4 4
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maybe uh will be produced i believe the
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6.4 sorry the 6.2 Hellcat might even
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make it back into a new Ram 1500 TRX
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what's kind of interesting is that it
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will cost them more to make the new
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Hemis but it will cost them less
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probably than importing Hurricanes in
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from Mexico or the two will wash out in
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the end but I don't think that there's
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any plan to drop the Hurricane and it is
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a great engine and I wish more people
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would discover that the power is always
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there it's not like the old
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four-cylinder engines where you had to
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worry about turbo lag that's all gone
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now but if you really want a V8 for
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whatever reason they do appear to be
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coming back in the Rams whether they
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come back in the Chargers we don't
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really know right now charger wasn't
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designed for one my guess is that
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they'll make it fit in the Charger
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somehow
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uh it will still be less powerful than
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the Hurricane but if you are wondering
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when they're going to be around the
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equipment is from what I'm told going to
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be moved in in August that doesn't mean
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that they start production in August the
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equipment has to be set up everything
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has to be tested they have to run
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through and then they ramp up very very
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slowly so it can literally take months
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before they reach full production so
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there might be a small number of
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vehicles available before ramp up is
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finished but they're not going to be
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flooding the market with cheap V8 Ram
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1500s in fact I don't think cheap Ram
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1500 V8 is going to come back i think
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that the Hemi will have a higher cost
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because they can't make as many of them
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as quickly as they used to don't know
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we'll find out and I guess I'll be
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finding out with you when the time comes
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i'll see you there
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