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Chevy37, I was referring to the use of ARDUN-flathead-block engines running at Indianapolis. As a teenager I looked forward to special coverage by Hot Rod Magazine on the Indy cars in the Spring and...

Yes, I am familiar with the "stacked" arrangement of the intake ports since I helped my Dad replace a 272 with a 292 and I recall reading about the '57 heads being the best. I also recall the...

Yeah, the back-off rumble from a flathead coming into a stoplight is real music! You know I never really understood why the SBC "won" over the Y-block. Maybe it was the stumble over the problems...

That reminds me of a race I attended in 1956 when the NASCAR rules allowed you to run whatever the stock displacement was (plus some rebuild overbore) at the Hatfield 1/2 mile track in NJ. That was...

Chevy37, I guess folks did not pay much attention to the (lack of) torque and the engines were cheap and they could get chrome goodies for the 60 HP. Still my next door neighbor in the '50s had a...

That looks like a '27 Ford with a V8-60 HP since there are only 17 studs, still very interesting.

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

Booty-full ARDUN!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder

That is a good point about adaptability to other transmissions AND it may be easier to find an 8BA block. My brain is sort of frozen with the old formula of adding a '39 3-speed transmission to get...

It sounds as if you are determined to try to build a flathead so go to it. The point of the cost analysis above is that after all that expense to get somewhere between 200 and 250 HP, it can be...

Hey I do not actually know how much the setup in that '34 cost, but figure if it has the conversion to a C4 trans that is at least $1500 (about what a 700R4 would cost after some modification) that...

Where is the picture of the '34 with the flathead? I will try to upload it again. OK there it is, now that is beauty! One other point I notice in this picture is that it looks like there is a...

I had to go out earlier and had to sign off but here is some inspiration in a car I saw at last year's Richmond NSRA meet (2005). It is in a very nice fenderless '34 roadster which looked to be...

Other folks will have other comments but I am at home for the afternoon. I too wanted a "built" flathead but ran into many problems. I bought four blocks only to find all of them cracked beyond...