HEMI School Essay

Little known fact about the hemis is that they were great air flow heads but horrible at burning fuel efficiently because they had no "squish" or quench area. You had the power but you were literally dumping fuel down the exhaust pipes. Today's "hemis" are not actual hemis in which they are referred to as "semi-hemis." This is because they added the "squish" or quench areas which also increased compression because there was less space left for the fuel/air mix to populate. To put it bluntly they took the hemi-circle and added metal on each side to make the squish areas. This allows them to burn fuel much better. Also, Ford makes a hemi also, its called a BOSS. Copyright purposes and so forth prevents ford from using hemi