Hot Rods Fastest V8-60 ?

Wow 14:1. Must take some careful planning to keep breathing adequate in the chamber. Sounded great I'll bet.

On my street engine I figured the best path was a huffer. Just push it through.

 

^^^^^^^^^^ Would love to see what the dome on a 14 to 1 piston looks like.

 

That's some pretty good squeeze! Lippy

 

50 some year old picture from my misspent youth

 

Rich, Since you are from the Bay Area, you must have seen Johnny Baldwin race ?

 

Yes. Didn't spend much time helping this car. I mostly wanted to go in straight lines. This was Chuck Foley's midget. He also had a 270 Offy powered sprint at that time. Billy Cantrell was driving as I remember. Chuck was a foreman at UAL at the time. My shop stewered was his mechanic, It was a fun place to work then.

 

Nothing much to see. It is as flat as a table top. It has to do with math. A single plane circle has less area than a spherical circle. Remember, this is a flathead, NOT an overhead engine. Totally different concept.

 

The one with Ardun heads ?

 

Let me help you out on the crop job with those @RichFox .

 

Pete1.......I was thinking of the area in head for valve clearance making it hard to get that high a CR.

 

I made the head for my 32 Plymouth V4/GMR Bonneville car. By the time I had cut clearance to open the valves, and made a tapering ramp from the valve area to the cylinder, 10 to 1 was very hard to get. I had flat top pistons and the head was flat about half way across the cylinder. 14 was impossible. This was with a 4 5/8 stroke 3 7/8 bore cylinder. Should have been easy to build compression.

 

Rich. That was my thinking.

 

I am not the guy that figured it out. I just followed what others did.

 

a buddy stored his 37 with a V8-60 at my house so I took it for a spin every time i needed my garage for my projects.

from my experience they don't go over 40 MPH.... since I only drove around the neighborhood.