1965 Mopar Hemi Shock Tower
Jimmy writes:
A buddy of Bob Willshire shared this trick with him and he passed the information along to me. This car was from Indiana.
The trick to installing a Hemi into a 1965 Mopar B body involves modifying the shock tower. Otherwise removing and installing the Hemi valve cover will create problems.
To modify you, in effect, flip the shock tower top to bottom, (or bottom to top). This puts the backside inside the engine compartment. It is really hard to see the results, until the Hemi engine is in the engine compartment!
The modification moves the shock stud up, instead of under the valve cover. It makes it easier to remove the valve cover, and prevents scratching the valve cover on the shock stud.
It appears it moved it down instead of up in these photos, but after it was done, my shock stud was higher in my 1965 Plymouth.
This modification does not resemble the look of an original Hemi shock tower, (see the photo to the right).
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This shock tower mod will work on other Mopar B bodies as well, for example 1964s.
More Mopar Inverted Shock Tower Photos
Hammer sent in some shock tower photos from his Mopar project:
Thanks Jimmy! And Hammer!
Gary H.
Posted November 26, 2005; Updated November 10, 2010