Q: Greg, what changes have to be made to put overhead valves on a flathead engine? Thanks, Dennis “Mike” Scott, Manson, N.C. A: Dennis, the Flathead Fords have really caught on again with hot rodders ...
The Ford Flathead V8 was the first mass-market V8 and the starting point for uniquely American performance. What's interesting about it is exactly what made it possible—simple and cheap to build—is ...
Three common combustion engine valvetrain designs are flathead, overhead valve (OHV), and overhead cam (OHC). Many older cars have engines with flathead or overhead valves, and these designs also tend ...
Studebaker went 100% to futuristic overhead valves before American Motors, turns out. Some readers felt that Studebaker kept selling its 170-cubic-inch flathead six well into the 1960s, but 1960 ...
Ford Flathead V8s are of archetypal importance to the hot-rodding community, even though they were never that powerful by today’s standards. They gave Regular Joes access to relatively high ...
Like most things, the Flathead evolved and there were a variety of improvements made during its lifespan. In 1933, new aluminum cylinder heads and redesigned pistons resulted in the compression ratio ...
It was considered a major breakthrough when Ford launched its Flathead V8 engine in 1932. Up until that point, V8 engines were expensive and limited to just luxury cars, but Henry Ford wanted one that ...
The Ford Flathead V8 wasn't the first V8, but when it debuted in the 1932 Model 18, it brought this brilliant engine configuration to the American masses. With a simple design featuring a flat ...
Ford's famed flathead V-8 was revolutionary when the automaker put the engine into production in 1932. It brought the V-8 to the mass market and ready power to hot rodders for decades to come. But its ...
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