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had to torque the head-bolts down to 150
12:1 compression with a supercharger? Mathman and I don't agree on vimens, but this is spot on. Must have been a piston and head gasket killer too.
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I'd bet John, that about 75% of the 'fire members have never seen a Ford flathead engine.  In the 25% here! I love them. The sound engine tone can only be matched by a ford y-block and the can be worked more than a guy thinks. Some can get down right radical. There are a few of the sitting in the shed.
Camp is where you make it.
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I don't eat anything that didn't have a mother.
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Have two sets of original Ardun heads in my "401k".
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My 53 Ford F-100 sits in the garage with a 239 flathead and 4 speed. Restored 15 yrs ago with 33,000 miles. Noodlz want to cash in a set of those heads?
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The 1st vehicle I ever bought with my own money, in 1966, was a 1948 Willy's Jeep Pickup Truck,
4WD, with a Hi-Low range manual transmission, and a 1952 Ford Flathead V-8 engine conversion!
We got it running just a day before a major blizzard went through North Dakota,
and got it stuck on top of a 15 foot snow drift.
I was proud then and still am - to have owned and driven a Flathead V-8!
~ Flatheads Forever ~
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I have seen a few, and drag raced against a couple of them. Wonderful sounds and great looking mil when set up right.
LOVE God, LOVE your family, LOVE your country, LIKE guns and sports.
About 2016 team "R" candidates "We definitely need a crew with a sack of balls the size of hot water bottles, bloviated estrogen leaking feel-gooders need not apply." Gunner 500
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Yes 54 was an overhead. 53 was the last flathead. Canada used the flathead until 1954 in the Mercury M-100 Brazil used a flathead until 1969. 69's made by Chrysler. I have a 239 in my 1953 F-100 pick up covered up in the garage. I have had several, most fun were the 60hp v-8's great in mini racers.
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And Ford wasn't the only one to make flathead eights. If you want a really long hoodline, can't beat a Chrysler or Packard straight eight. ![[Linked Image]](http://images50.fotki.com/v395/photos/9/9586/6324536/8WheelerFarmCarShowMurrayUT447-vi.jpg)
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Dad had a couple of late 40's early 50's flathead V8 Ford cars. Back around early 1952 when the construction project he had been working on ended, he hooked our little mobile home to a bumper hitch and pulled it with his flathead V8 Ford 2dr sedan all the way to the next construction site, approximately 400 miles away.
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