Pics of my Dragster engine, and the mill thats in my '32 sedan. The dragster engine is heavily ported, relieved, bored, Filled block, Merc crank, Isky 400 jr cam, Johnson lifters, Forgedtrue pistons, Harmon-Collins dual coil dist., Stromberg 97's. Ran a 7.90 1/8th mile with a second gear only partial pass. The sedan engine is similar with a Ford crank, Winfield cam, 3 Holley 94's. Ran a 17.80 @ 80 mph with 2nd and 3rd gear only. See the pattern? Always a tranny issue! Still fun though!
Why would you want one of those? Chevy has this neat little orange engine.... It' amazing to see so many engines, and none of them the same. Some cool stuff here-Right click, copy, right click paste time.
Thanks for the compliments on my engine. Ryan - The heads are cast iron, came on a 46 Ford my dad got a long time ago...anyone have any info about them? Here's my current favorite, in "myke"'s 3W... Neal
Belair...it's all Thickstun stuff, including the heads. They repop the covers but I'm sure they are sand cast and a little smaller than originals. Clark
well it`s not going to win any beauty contest but we have won a lot of races together over the last 17 ? years and god knows how many miles flatheads Rule !!!!!
No, the castings were ground smooth, primed and "block" sanded and then painted with single stage acrylic enamel. My dad and I put the engine together last year. He supplied the parts and knowledge...I just made it shiny. ;-) Maybe I'll get to fire it off soon... Neal
Wow thanks for the compliment! Your engines detail is amazing, and I did get the wire loom idea from yours. Here is the other side of mine.
not the best pics in the world but they will need to do as its all I got the manifold is a navarro twin carb manifold with the dog bone heat riser atop - seems to be quite a rare old piece from what I hear. its going in a '35 roadster chassis.] Dont worry the exhaust manifolds will be going soon for some custom made manifolds. didnt have time to take them off before i had to go and I wanted some pics before I went.
Ah, that's why it's still so clean. After a few miles it will look like this. Well, maybe not quite this bad. .
Here are a few that I've built or helped build....I first one is what I do all day long...Build aluminum Flatheads.....
1940 Merc "raised deck" block. On it's first rebuild at .020 over, .010 on the crank. Other than the headers it's bone stock and runs like a watch. It was built in 1969 and sat 'til '03 when I got it. Has about 2500 miles on it since I got the car on the road last year. Runs at 140-160 degrees and gets about about 18mpg(depending on which direction the wind is blowin' Not nearly as pretty as Neal's work of art....But then, even though there are some really nice Flatheads here,I don't think any of 'em can compare to how beautiful that one is!!! Rich
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