oh freakin' my. and if I stuck my finger in the end exhaust ports down by the flanges - what would I feel? that is cool as hell. So who gets the 2nd one?
And...when you throw an old engine block into your pickup for traction, use an IRON one--the extra weight helps a lot.
doesn't look billet to me. Looks cast. and it's obviously been run a while, so... is it a test bed block?
it's a cast alloy flattie block - 59A decks, 8BA bellhousing pattern Main webs are fat; mains are studded with dowel locators concentric to the studs as opposed to the interlocking crescents of a stock block center main is a 4 bolt valve guides look to be SBC dimensions and made of bronze valve bowls are HUGE valves look to be bigger than 1.60's bores look to be bigger than 3-3/8ths exhaust flange outlets look waay bigger than stock Motor looks to be dry-sleeved valve reliefs look to be bench flowed (not at all like an 8RT) and...the damned thing was lit and run. that's about all I noticed on the first pass...what did I miss?
That ain't no real flathead. REAL flatheads are covered in GUNK! Baked on forever, "The Blob that ate Philadelphia" type gunk. That's just some silly assed re-valved, relieved, big bore race motor with some use on it... I like the mains setup. Where's the crank? I'd like to see that. So who's was it?
I hear ya! If there was a way to lay that shit down as pavement - we'd have roads that lasted forever... Betcha it had a 180 degree crank...
Didn't Grancor sell these back in the day? New aluminum flatheads. Surplus military.....or is it a new one from Motor City Flathead and Shadow Rods? Maybe FlatheadJack got off his ass.
Ahhh... its not a gennie part, just some cheap knock off! Lemme take it off your hands for... recycling.
Wha?................ I WANT, nay. MUST have one? Wheres a cross road when you need to sell your soul??
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