Changing to hemi badges

[68rrdream]

I'm just curious. If someone put a hemi in a belvedere or roadrunner that wasn't originally a hemi car would you prefer to leave the original badging or switch it to hemi?

No right or wrong answers just curious what everyone's thoughts are on this.

 

[Big Bad Dad]

I knew a guy that put a 427 in a Nova, and kept the 327 badges. Was the winner of a lot of stoplight drags...

 

[dadsbee]

I like to keep'm guessing. My Bee's hood scroops have never had badging on them and most have no idea what HP2 means on the Satellite !

 

[chargervert]

I am putting a 472 Hemi in my 70 Charger R/T SE it will have Hemi badges on it! I already have the bumper sticker on it!

 

[hemi*guy]

When my dad bought the car in 1971 he took the Hemi badges off. He always said “let them find out on their own”. When I had it restored i put them back on.

 

[68rrdream]

Ok. So either way it isn't looked down upon in the community?

 

[chtampa]

In the days of street racing and money was involved, you wanted the sleeper image, now that has changed and you want people to know what you have done.

 

[chargervert]

As long as the car actually has the Hemi engine to back up the badges, I don't see it as a problem. Putting Hemi badges on a 318 car with a 318 engine in it just tarnished the reputation of the Hemi when you get your *** handed to you at the stoplight!

 

[6PKRTSE]

I have a 528" Hemi in my Challenger. Still says 426" though. Not that it is a sleeper by any means.

 

[Nxcoupe]

I say put whatever you like on it. I had a 71 Cuda 340, 4spd car that I got as a roller and restored it back in the day. I put a 69 hemi in it, used the 'mickey mouse mounts' to set the engine onto the 340 Kmember. I had 340 4 bbl emblems on the shaker, but ran tge hemicuda shaker emblems when I went to shows. Friday night, off came the hemi emblems, on went the 340 emblems, lol. Handed quite a few guys their lunch thinking they were picking on a 340. Lol. Great memories.