Talk:Hemi engine

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[edit] Other hemi engines — List or not?

Seems that you put back those hemi tables/list, I think those are totally unnecessary here, if we collect all car brands/engines here we got quite a large article...hemis are so used/popular that almost every brand uses those...the Porsche engine table should be some Porsche engine page--— Typ932^{T | C}  23:48, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

You've got a good point. Significantly popular hemi engines other than the most familiar (Chrysler) units do merit mention in the article, but the details of those engines belong in their own articles. Take a look at the short few Wikilinked sentences I left in regarding the Mitsubishi hemi-head engines. I think a similar short few wikilinked sentences would do nicely for the Porsche engines, as well; if the specificity currently contained here is not presently contained in the relevant Porsche articles, it can easily be cut from here and pasted there. What do you think? —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 00:31, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Yep there is already some lines about Porsche in main text, here is one page about Porsche engines List_of_Porsche_engines --— Typ932^{T | C}  00:40, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Done! All relevant links have been left here, but the extended language about Porsches has been pruned; it's readily available in the Porsche articles. The table of Porsche hemi-head engines been moved to List of Porsche engines. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 01:36, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

Second round of edits. I've incorporated the stub "other hemi engines" section (which contained info only on Porsche + Mitsubishi) into the new heading structure. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 04:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] What makes a Hemi better?

In what way is a hemispherical combustion chamber superior to a non-hemispherical chamber? The article makes reference to the notion that they create more power, but it doesn't explain how. Instead, the list of "benefits and drawbacks" makes it sound like the hemi engine would only be less powerful than a normal engine. Could someone please clarify this for those of us who are not car experts? --207.47.0.242 (talk) 17:27, 5 May 2008 (UTC)

You're right, the "benefits" section was very confusing due to a large number of variously dubious unsupported assertions that had been tagged as such without amelioration for months. I've removed these statements, and the section is now much clearer. If somebody has reliable support for the deleted assertions, of course, they can be added back into the article with suitable citations. —Scheinwerfermann (talk) 18:17, 5 May 2008 (UTC)