1962 Lancer GT w/Hyper-Pak on ebag - anybody ever see a factor scoop setup like this?

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Looks like a factory Hyper-Pak intake/exhaust - but did they put scoops on them, or did someone add it later?

If it were a factory racer, it would have the 170, not the 225, right?
I'm guessing somebody bought go-fast parts later and installed them.

The 'story' is improbable -
" This is something you've most likely never seen before and might just never see another one. I have been restoring cars for 45 years and worked for a private Mopar collector for 10 years with a penchant for early 300's and any go fast Chrysler product and I had never even heard of a Hyper Pak much less seen one. I stumbled over this car in a barn in south Phoenix and didn't quite know what I was looking at. I had to go home and Google "Hyper Pak" and I was amazed."

Who has been around Mopars for 10+ years and never heard of a Hyper-Pak? And, if he stumbled over it in a barn, how did he know to google "Hyper Pak", since it doesn't say "Hyper Pak" anywhere on the car? And 'barn find'?

Regardless, kinda cool, except for the price tag ;-)

1962 Dodge Lancer Lancer GT | eBay

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You could have gotten them in both flavors, factory or over the counter. That hood scoop is Pep Boys as well as the air cleaner....

"..The 148hp, 170 cu. in Hyper-Pak introduced in the 1960 Valiant....."

"From mid-1961 to 1963, 50,000 225-cid Slant Six engines were produced with an aluminum engine block. A competition engine, the Hyper-Pak featured a much more radical cam, intake, and carb; steel tubing exhaust headers; higher compression pistons; and a special tuned exhaust system. Advertised at 195 hp, Hyper-Pak engines are often said to put out even more power."

"Hyper-Pak specs:

  • Overhead valve. Cast iron block.
  • Compression ratio: 11.5:1 (225), 10.5:1 (170)
  • Brake hp: 195 at 5200 rpm (225), 148 (170).."
various sources, mostly from allpar.

As for the hype from the seller: Lame. He could have pulled it off if he said he was a Chevy guy, but coming from a Mopar guy, the lack of basic Hyper-pack history makes him sound like a sleazy salesman. I like the car though, think its a very nice example. Id drive it.
 
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All the Hyper Pack stuff's been added. The 225 was never offered in the Hyper Pack. Just the 170. Still cool though.
 
Did the put them in B body cars?

Back in 1990, my uncle told me he had one in a 62 or 63 Dart (which was a B body that year)

I had only been a Mopar guy for 6 or 7 years and thought he was full of it until I looked it up.

First time I ever had to apologize about Mopar knowledge.
 
cheese scoop and graphics don't help.

looks like a sanden a/c compressor shoved under the intake
 
The "Kit" was never a factory installed option, unless you count the 7 Daytona Valiants. The kit was developed using the 170 engine. You had to purchase the parts from Chrysler parts and then have the dealer or you would install. They fit either 170 or 225 engines, hood clearance is tight on the 225. So it could have been used in a B Body. And the scoop does look like a 69 Cuda scoop to me as well.
 
Hyper_pak said:
The "Kit" was never a factory installed option, unless you count the 7 Daytona Valiants. The kit was developed using the 170 engine. You had to purchase the parts from Chrysler parts and then have the dealer or you would install. They fit either 170 or 225 engines, hood clearance is tight on the 225. So it could have been used in a B Body. And the scoop does look like a 69 Cuda scoop to me as well.
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I was counting the Daytona cars. And IMO, I think 148 HP was very conservative.
 
YY1 said:
Did the put them in B body cars?

Back in 1990, my uncle told me he had one in a 62 or 63 Dart (which was a B body that year)

I had only been a Mopar guy for 6 or 7 years and thought he was full of it until I looked it up.

First time I ever had to apologize about Mopar knowledge.
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62 was the B body. 63 was the A body. But again, they didn't put the Hyper Pack into production cars. Just those first factory race cars for the 1960 compact car race.
 
It has a 180 speedo! I don't see KPH but it must be an export car or changed speedo. Mine goes to 110 MPH.
 
Hyper_pak said:
The "Kit" was never a factory installed option, unless you count the 7 Daytona Valiants. The kit was developed using the 170 engine. You had to purchase the parts from Chrysler parts and then have the dealer or you would install. They fit either 170 or 225 engines, hood clearance is tight on the 225. So it could have been used in a B Body. And the scoop does look like a 69 Cuda scoop to me as well.
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Was "the kit" for both motors? Why is the 225 H-P compression different? Must have been pistons too. Yes...it was sold as a slant six kit, my mistake unless you were a factory backed racer then you got the whole package delivered. Although developed for the 170, it still fit in a 225. "The Hyper Pak was a parts package made available from 1960 through 1962 at Chrysler Corporation dealer parts counters" Included a lot of parts: "..The Hyper Pak consisted of a very-long-ram intake manifold meant to accept an AFB 4-barrel Carter Carburetor, the AFB carburetor itself and an appropriate air cleaner, dual (front-3 and rear-3) cast-iron exhaust headers, a large-diameter exhaust Y-pipe to connect to these dual cast-iron headers, a larger Imperial muffler, a 276°-duration camshaft with appropriate valve springs and pushrods, a heavier-duty clutch, a manual choke control, a starter motor modification template and, in the full-race version of the package, high-compression pistons designed to increase the (170) engine's compression ratio to 10.5 from the stock 8.5...."
 
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