What color was the factory hyper pak motor that they put in that infamous valiant?

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70 Plymouth Valiant 4dr

I believe the first year and more 170's were Red. Try to find pics of the restored 1960 XNR for a really nice representation.

I googled the XNR and noticed a couple things. The alternator is shifted to the middle, cool. And the dual exhaust uses flex pipe for the down tubes, interesting. Oh and it is red.

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Grandpa's 1974 Dart Custom 4 door 225 auto, Aluminum Radiator, 1920 Holley.

I thought the Hyper-Packs were only Dealer installed, not from the factory???

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1964 Dart GT

Correct....Dealer installed or you installed it yourself. Too bad color pics are not available, at least to my knowledge, but some early magazines that I have detail the hyper pack installation on a 1960 Valiant belonging to Briggs Cunningham.

Did all hyper packs have the alternates moved inboard? I've seen a few others pictured on the net like that, what would be the benefit?

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Grandpa's 1974 Dart Custom 4 door 225 auto, Aluminum Radiator, 1920 Holley.

Shorter fan belt, keeping the engine from throwing the belt at 6000+ rpm...it doesn't take much, a wobble in the alternator pulley would lunch your charging and cooling in one fraction of a second....been there and done that, will be relocating my alt on the next go through since my cars don' t have power steering.

I too have derailed belts at the 6000 rpm range while in second gear; not a good thing to take place out on the open road to suddenly loose power steering, and get a boiling tea kettle in less than a quarter of a mile. This has happened several times to me during sea trials after a tuning session.

I did find that power steering pump was cocked off of square a wee bit which seamed to be the cause of belt problems.

I had to shim power steering bracket to get it true with crank pulley which took a bit of fiddling around to get it right. I suspect previous owner had welded PS bracket during Budweiser Engineering session...

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67' Dart GT Convertible; the old Chrysler Corp.
82' LeBaron Convertible; the new Chrysler Corp
07' 300 C AWD; Now by Fiat, the old new Chrysler LLC

60 had the alternator on left. Moved soon afterward, not sure when. EARLY heads don't have the bolt boss to mount the alt bracket on the right.

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