Hot Rods Australia's Quickest Flathead Powered Hot Rod

To find Australia's quickest flathead powered hot rod Aussie Day of the Drags 2010 is offering a $2,000 prize pool for the fastest naturally aspirated and mechanically supercharged hot rods in a sidevalve shootout.

Blastin' these old motors down the quarter is what nostalgic racing is all about!

If you think you've got what it takes to be the inaugural winner, and stake your claim on having Australia's Fastest Flathead email your expression of interest to [email protected].

On Saturday March 6, 2010 the flag drops and the bullshit stops!



For more information see http://www.dayofthedrags.net


Thanks to Ryan for the privilege and the inspiration to make this happen.

QQ

 

That looks a lot of fun. Good luck with it.

 

Sound like fun might have to mark the calendar.

 

Looks like we will have to send some KIWI'S over to kick Arse .....................now that sounds like a plan

 

Killer!

 

come on over yr welcome

QQ

 

Careful QQ... they tend to stay once they're here.

 

It'll be interesting to see if a blown V12 Lincoln flathead would win, or a V8.

I know a guy who has been building a 671 blown flathead, with a lenco behind it, and running it in an old altered topolino (sic). Pitty there's no centre steer cars able to run.

 

True, but it's ok if they're runnin' quick Flatheads!

Hey Artiki, maybe we could (eventually) have an International "challenge".

 

sounds like fun !

 

I guess flathead can mean any sidevalve engine?

Opens up a whole big range of monster flatheads e'g Rod Hadfeilds Commer truck based engine and some of those big Dodge Sixes .the little Ford V8's will be nothing......
Imagine 413 cubic inches of Mopar flathead or 602 cubic inches of Continental flathead

 

Isn't the commer motor an OHV?

 

Yes Rods motor is OHV also its is center steer so not allowed

But his V12 pickupis

QQ

 

I see they're just as careful about clarity in the rules are they are here.

"No Nitro" means methanol, nitrous oxide, hydrazine is legal, doesn't it?
Do you think they'll notice before the race, or after the race?
Depends on whether their friends win...

 

And whats wrong with Hydrazine

I thought for a while over the rules without making it too messy

QQ

 

rules smules.......there are times when I think some of you guys get so lost in the details you loose the big picture....

Looks like I better extract a digit, dig out the rpu project and find that 4/71 soon....

Cheers,

Drewfus

 

What's the fastest flathead you have down there at the moment? We've got a club member relocating with his car to the other side of the world, he may well be up for the challenge.

 

Don't honestly know, there are a few fast (in flathead terms) rails and the like that we know of, but anyone's guess within the the 'street' guise

 

Things are moving along some cool stuff being done

QQ

 

Sounds like a cool event. The A on the poster is killer. I love Flatheads!

 

There is an injected FED down here in Melbourne which has dipped into the 9s and another one over in Western Australia that is blown and injected and has gone mid 8s. Although both are purpose built it would only take a few mates, a T body, a very light frame and any one of those donks and presto..possible 11sec. times.

 

Kurtis I like the way you think

QQ

 

This is possibly the most opportune way for a group of guys to get together and build a car the way most fuel dragsters were built.
One guy provides the motor another the chassis and so on.
I just don't think there will be a whole lot of guys willing to trash a perfectly good 59a. Plenty of Dodge 6s and 8s around. Don't take much to get them going.

 

I hear Jim Kerr has set the wheels in Motion and he goes way back

QQ

 

Please explain.

 

Jim used to run a Flathead Rail in the Golden days and still has alot of the stuff laying around along with a Roadster he is building so im guessing its going to be something special from what i hear

QQ

 

Same bloke who ran a red motor rail?

 

Guess so he had a few over the years may be the same Bloke

QQ

 

He did race a Cusso and flathead rail, he's in the early Ford V8 club.