Those of you who know Inertia will primarily associate us with the Dodge Rams and LX/LC platform community which is alot of what we do.
When we got started working on the new hemis back in 04 the plans we to develop and market ecconomical ways to install hemis into old school mopars since the old mopars were my true interest. The avenue I was really interested in was to be able to do it in a way that the average enthusiast could afford it. Really the new hemi in place of a 318 or 6 on a typical duster or dart that represents what most of us have.
Well, In 04 I realized there wasn't enough interest in this type of thing to base a business off of so wanting to at least get into new hemis I went were the hemi development was, the Ram trucks and then later in 05 the LX platform cars. Myself and partner at the time, being old school small block mopar guys that ran W2 and W5 engines and were starting to get into the W8/W9 heads. One of the first things we did was to approach one of the shops that ported the W8, W9, P5, P7 race heads for the pros. Thats when I meet up with Phil Coleman and his partner Clint who were Finish First Racing Heads. Among other things, Phil did heads for Reher Morrison back in the 70's and 80's until he and Clint went off on their own and started Finish First where their meat and potatoes was supplying heads to NASCAR cup and NHRA Pro Stock teams. Well, somehow I talked them into CNC porting 5.7 Hemi and later when it was availabvle the 6.1 Hemi and 09 5.7 eagle heads for me. They have supplied me with the best new model hemi heads ever since.
The CNC'd heads lead right away into custom hemi cams and then in 05 when we got the part numbers for the 6.1 hemi cranks and blocks we immediately started offset grinding 6.1 cranks to max stroke with honda journals and then doing welded up offset ground 6.1 cranks that I used to build the first ever 5.7 based 392 and first 6.1 based 426 to go in a vehicle. That Magnum with the 426 went to SEMA in 06 and at a 4685 lbs race weight with driver was the first naturally aspirated LX to make an 11 second quarter mile pass which was at the LX Southeast Shindig running 11.87 and beating out several forged bottom end blower cars and the only other 6.1 based 426 powered car in the world at that time to be the fastest car at the event.
Needless to say we've built alot of hemis and learned alot about how to make them run fast since then. And with it all being new at the time we learned alot of it the hard way. So now I think it's time to come full circle and get involved in getting them into old school mopars and using what we've learned to help the old school mopar guys get it right the first time and not learn the new hemi the hard way.
When we got started working on the new hemis back in 04 the plans we to develop and market ecconomical ways to install hemis into old school mopars since the old mopars were my true interest. The avenue I was really interested in was to be able to do it in a way that the average enthusiast could afford it. Really the new hemi in place of a 318 or 6 on a typical duster or dart that represents what most of us have.
Well, In 04 I realized there wasn't enough interest in this type of thing to base a business off of so wanting to at least get into new hemis I went were the hemi development was, the Ram trucks and then later in 05 the LX platform cars. Myself and partner at the time, being old school small block mopar guys that ran W2 and W5 engines and were starting to get into the W8/W9 heads. One of the first things we did was to approach one of the shops that ported the W8, W9, P5, P7 race heads for the pros. Thats when I meet up with Phil Coleman and his partner Clint who were Finish First Racing Heads. Among other things, Phil did heads for Reher Morrison back in the 70's and 80's until he and Clint went off on their own and started Finish First where their meat and potatoes was supplying heads to NASCAR cup and NHRA Pro Stock teams. Well, somehow I talked them into CNC porting 5.7 Hemi and later when it was availabvle the 6.1 Hemi and 09 5.7 eagle heads for me. They have supplied me with the best new model hemi heads ever since.
The CNC'd heads lead right away into custom hemi cams and then in 05 when we got the part numbers for the 6.1 hemi cranks and blocks we immediately started offset grinding 6.1 cranks to max stroke with honda journals and then doing welded up offset ground 6.1 cranks that I used to build the first ever 5.7 based 392 and first 6.1 based 426 to go in a vehicle. That Magnum with the 426 went to SEMA in 06 and at a 4685 lbs race weight with driver was the first naturally aspirated LX to make an 11 second quarter mile pass which was at the LX Southeast Shindig running 11.87 and beating out several forged bottom end blower cars and the only other 6.1 based 426 powered car in the world at that time to be the fastest car at the event.
Needless to say we've built alot of hemis and learned alot about how to make them run fast since then. And with it all being new at the time we learned alot of it the hard way. So now I think it's time to come full circle and get involved in getting them into old school mopars and using what we've learned to help the old school mopar guys get it right the first time and not learn the new hemi the hard way.
