Cast in Los Angeles from the highest quality T6 tempered A356 aluminum and CNC machined, the 24-stud Wilson & Woods heads are designed to fit the desirable 1949-53 8BA flathead. The high-tech engineered design has a runne, A unique feature of Magnusons Eaton blower is the bypass valve (arrow) that opens under c, The improved 49-53 pump (left) can be used in place of the early pump (right) by pluggin, Typical water pumps, from left: a 38-48 passenger-car pump modified for a bolt-on pulley, This is MSDs 8BA billet flathead distributor (PN 8574) that works with all the trick MSD. And, of course, they also give you four rather than three exhaust ports for a more contemporary, balanced look.. A step by step book on how to identfy and rebuild a ford flatheads. An alternative are Pertronix conversion kits that fit inside the original distributor; they retain the classic look, and versions are even offered that function on 6-volt power. Scat offers affordable cast Pro Stock cranks through 4.375-inch stroke, with either 2.00- or 2.138-inch rod journals. Earlier 3 1/16-inch-bore blocks will only go 0.090-over. Five different intakes are available including 2x2s, 3x2s, 4x2s, a 4 bbl and a blower and they cost $1,000 each. By Brian Brennan Photography by the John Jackson. Speedway Motors offers pumps with sealed bearings that do an even better job in both early and late configurations. The solution is to raise the boiling point by upping coolant-system pressure to 17-21 pounds, using a modern crossflow radiator and higher-pressure cap. Its only right. He wasn't about to change the iconic Ardun look, and he wanted to ensure his parts would fit the old flat motors, but he saw an opportunity to revamp the workings inside those bulbous covers. It comes with the standard REVO IFS with drop spindles, splined sway bar, upgraded to Penske double-adjustable coilover shocks. According to Baron Racing, the limiting factor is not piston-to-head interference, nor even valvespring coil-bind-it is running out of cam bearing clearance for the lobes. Apparently, the old boys' network doesn't want any youngbloods crashing their exclusive country club. Fel-Pro and Victor continue to make head gaskets too. He decided to drive the coupe down to Daytona Beach, Florida for the Turkey Rod Run, and enlisted Phil Goller of Gollers Hot Rods to ride shotgun. The block is cast from aluminum and features a great number of changes from the original cast iron design. Don has also raised the floor of the intake and exhaust ports to better move the air. French blocks are hybrids, essentially a '49-'53 8BA in terms of deck height and front-end, but with the integral cast bellhousing and corresponding oil pan as found on the '38 1/2-'48 59A. Flat-O Products sells well-designed, complete kits to install the Ford C4 automatic and T5 manual behind either 8BA or 59A engines. One solution is adopting a small-block Chevy damper. Provided you have an original bellhousing, you can use available Trans-Dapt adapters to install Ford passenger-car transmissions from the mid '60s to the late '70s behind the '49-'53 flatties. The present-day Arduns are CNC-machined using high-grade 356-T6 aluminum, have refined combustion chambers, and improved oiling and valvetrain components. But it didn't take long for the hot rodding community to learn about these conversion kits and how well they hopped up the flattie. Only 200 original sets are known to exist, but fortunately, Ardun heads and associated conversion parts are back, reproduced in improved form by Don Ferguson of Ardun Enterprises. Most of these parts became the foundation for the Sharp Speed and Power Equipment company. Available with center water neck. Notify me of follow-up comments by email. With that motor, the Chrismans won the B Comp Coupe class and set a new class record of 160.178 mph. If you look beneath the dash you will spot the makings of a South Wind gasoline heater. Ken Austin grew up on a farm in Newberg, Oregon where his interest in cars started when he got his permit to drive to school. We are now the exclusive distributors of Navarro Racing Equipment, Sharp Speed Equipment, Wilson and Woods Cylinder Heads, Dixon Overhead Valve Conversion, and a complete line of Austin Speed Equipment for the Arudn, Lincoln 337, Lincoln V12 and V8 60. Seal the heads to the block using slick new graphite-impregnated head gaskets available from Best Gasket, Reds Headers, and Tatom. K&F Show #259: The Dukes of Star Trek; Dukes Review S2E12 Arrest Jesse Duke. With a 4.5-inch-stroke aftermarket crank, that yields 334 cubic inches. The body has an assortment of mild changes but we feel they are well measured as the coupe has a great stance and the appropriate hot rod look. Again, this is one of those hot rods that you must see in person to appreciate the amount of creativity and craftsmanship that was invested in this ride. I wish I could have stuck around for the next couple of years. The originals still are. Imagine all the programming that went into this. After getting a good dose of sunshine and warm temperatures, they decided to pay us a visit on the way back home. All flatheads overheat, then the blocks crack. The Ford 2N was a variation on the 9N introduced due to World War II. This encouraged the old-time flathead parts guys (or their sons) to start repopping the old parts. The 2-inch rod journals are very popular because their diameter and width permits the use of readily available 215-inch-style Buick/Olds/Rover V-8 bearings. Stromberg in England is producing new Strombergs again. Over the meticulous bodywork performed by RR&C, a 1940 Ford factory color was applied. Too high a compression ratio and the engine peaks early due to restricted top-end breathing. The 57-inch-wide Ford 9-inch rearend (Detroit Truetrac limited-slip differential with 3.90 gears) is further enhanced with a triangulated four-bar setup, again Penske coilovers, and upgraded with a Roadster Shop sway bar. They fit original 39-53 blocks, French blocks, and (perhaps the ultimate evolution) Fergusons new aluminum block. He improved everything he touched. The Chrisman brothers competition coupeso handsome it warranted its own "Fantastic Coupe" feature in the magazine as well as a Rex Burnett cutaway drawingused an innovative rear engine-mount cradle that could be uncoupled from the chassis to speed repairs or swaps. The Flathead in the five-window coupe is the test mule, and Motor City plans to begin production soon. TBI injection through billet Stromberg 97 carb-like throttle-bodies is available from Flathead Engineering. Don was interested, but his approach would be different from Orosco's. The Thickstun two-carb high-rise intake (today marketed by Baron) is an excellent street setup and it even provides clearance for the stock generator. It was not your Dad's engine-it was your grandfather's. Ratios are 1.375 on the intake side, 1.2 on the exhaust. The new engines overpowered the old chassis, so modern suspensions and disc-brake swaps were added to the mix. Its a Holley touch screen that allows one to manage the computer settings. Although it sounds weird in this modern age of thin-wall castings, the 3 3/16-inch-bore, U.S.-built flatties can be bored 0.125-inch (1/8-inch-over). The bell housing mount is Chevrolet and I believe the water pump has a revision. While enduing lifes ups and downs, hes held steadfast to what he likes in vintage tin, a 1936 Ford coupe. He is now replicating S.Co.T. Denny is right.ALL of the above is true scoop! ", Among this herd of sheep, a few original hot rods were brought out of retirement, complete with gennie flatheads as the powerplant. . Thanks ! When I was in the ninth grade (56-57), our physics teacher "proved" it would be impossible to accelerate to over some figure like that (138 sticks in my mind) in the quarter. Tom Roberts' new two-piece crossflow utilizes the latest in airflow technology. Copyright 1995-2008 Atomic Industry: Steal our stuff, we'll kick your teeth in. The Motor City/Shadow Rods block is an entirely different piece. Somewhere in the middle is the largest group: Potential street rodders who just want reasonably fast hot rods without having a cookie-cutter, 1-800-car. The best balance has been the subject of debate for over 60 years. A very brief history goes something like this: In 1947, years before his involvement with the Corvette, Zora Arkus-Duntov, along with his brother, Yura, designed an overhead conversion for the Ford Flathead V-8, marketing them as Ardun-an acronym of their second name, originally manufactured in New York and later assembled in England and fitted to many Allard sports cars, hence the confusing differences in the script cast into the valve covers. 1949-53. . (Pardon me if I'm wrong about this.). The new Sharp V8 60 flathead cylinder heads feature a centered, bolt on water neck. The Chevys crank diameter is only 0.060-inch smaller than the flatheads. The street version of the ARDUN-equipped Flathead produces about 1 hp per cubic inch unblown but with a S.Co.T. What kind of power are these Arduns putting out? Click below to preview or download the complete catalog. In the old days the hot ticket was dropping a 49-53 Mercury 4-inch-stroke crank in place of the Ford 3.75-inch-stroke unit. In order to gain this clearance, the hood sides where they meet the fenders were modified by being raised 1-1/2 inches yielding the necessary ARDUN valve cover clearance. 5.0 out of 5 stars. Flatheads need high compression because they dont breathe. After 1953, flathead production continued in other countries, most notably in Europe, where the engine continued to be used in French military vehicles through the 90s. French blocks have some unique features and are covered separately. Are you saying that theres a FLATHEAD in there ? There are several reasons for developing a new aluminum block for the Flathead. Also check out Speedway Engineering's offerings. Available in black t-shirt or white t-shirt. Steering is under the watchful turn of a Maval rack, which controls the rolling stock consisting of one-off EVOD wheels (reminiscent of 50s Indy racing), measuring 166 and 167 with Diamond Back Classics radial rubber measuring 6.00-16 and 7.00-16. Mostly true, but the French military used flatheads as late as the early 90s and ancient flathead technology has evolved to run over 300 mph at Bonneville. Edelbrock, Wilcap (Sharp), and Offenhauser continue to market a wide variety of intakes. The first-design '32 through early '38 engines had only 21 cylinder-head studs and until mid 1936 even used poured babbit main bearings. Theres no doubt we love our Flatheads here at Honest Charley, and we had a visitor this morning that loves his, too. Copyright 2000-2009 Jelsoft Enterprises Limited. Heck, not even a front door, really. Our experience and rigorous assembly procedure is what makes our engines trusted throughout the industry. In the mid '90s, Orosco took on the task of reproducing the Ardun heads, improving on their design yet making sure they were visually exact duplicates of the originals. This block is completely beefed up, with four-bolt caps, reinforced bottom-end and webbing, furnace-brazed sleeves (max bore is 3.5 inches), and new-design head studs that tie into the bottom of the block. Baron, Edelbrock, Sharp (Wilcap), Navarro, and Offenhauser make both old-style heads as well as improved new configurations. The oil, water, fuel, and amp are N.O.S. He apprenticed as a pattern makers helper when the war broke out. One flathead builder, Dave Tatom, offers a unique line of custom grinds with wide 114-degree LSA for naturally aspirated engines, and 116-118 LSAs for blown motors. Two things to watch out for are an extra water hole in the block and the lack of a breather standpipe in the block. The company they formed to produce these heads was named "Ardun," an acronym derived from their last name. Dave Putnam (Orangevale, California) used a dark brown leather to stitch over the custom buckets resting on top of unique seat risers all crafted by the crew at RR&C. The heads come complete with Isky valve springs, 1.5-inch diameter stainless steel valves, adjustable push rods, lifters, custom head gaskets and a pair of exhaust flanges. If it boils, steam pockets form, and when you have steam, you'll get cracks. No detail has escaped Don's attention. Solve cooling problems by using a modern water pump available through Speedway Motors and other sources. Automotive American Classic Vintage & Modern, Flathead Myths courtesy of Tony Baron It's been over 50 years since the last Ford flathead V-8 was commercially produced in the U.S. French blocks are hybrids, essentially a 49-53 8BA in terms of deck height and front-end, but with the integral cast bellhousing and corresponding oil pan as found on the 38 1/2-48 59A. Like a lot of race shops located in industrial sections of Southern California, Don Ferguson's place is nondescript to the point of camouflage. Simple by today's high-tech standards, during its performance reign from the late '30s through the mid '50s, the flathead was unsurpassed for building go-fast power on the cheap. His manifolds and valve covers graced the of the famous Hurst Hairy Olds twin engine car and he helped Craig Breedlove with the Spirirt of America record setting run. With 6 Ford Flathead Cylinder Heads for sale, and options to fit your needs including custom and direct fit Cylinder Heads for your needs. A wide variety of headers are available for flathead engines, which certainly should not retain the restrictive stock exhaust manifolds. Good question. Now it's 2005, and the flathead's resurgence shows no sign of diminishing. No one runs the old weak stock ignitions anymore. Too high a compression ratio and the engine peaks early due to restricted top-end breathing. Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2016 6:17 am Post subject: Re: Chrysler 6 cyl flathead. There are several reasons for developing a new aluminum block for the Flathead. With such a small difference; it's relatively easy to take a little off the Ford snout then slightly hone the inside of a Chevy balancer so it slips over the Ford crank. Most stock flatheads never came with an effective harmonic damper. In fact, the growing flathead movement has basically sorted itself out into three distinct groups. In the old days the hot ticket was dropping a '49-'53 Mercury 4-inch-stroke crank in place of the Ford 3.75-inch-stroke unit. The coupe is no stranger to awards, having won the Goodguys Hot Rod of the Year in 2019 and three Goodguys Pros Picks as well as a Best Rod at the Grand National Roadster Show. Traditionalists can go with Vertex or Mallory mags, while modern guys may want to move up to MSD or Mallory electronic distributors. They are available in both two- and three-ca, Ardun Enterprises overhead-valve hemi heads are shown with old-school mechanical stacked, Flathead Engineering offers single, twin, and quadruple TBI systems. You need lots of timing to make a flathead run. Tony Baron says French blocks can be bored 0.250-over (1/4 inch). About the longest arm you can throw in a flathead, this Scat custom vacuum-melt 4340-steel. The old cam grinders-including Isky, Schneider, Elgin, and others-have both old and new cam grinds. They will not work for a standard flathead build; they lack both exhaust and intake ports. Starting in July 1938, the blocks went to 24 head-retention studs. Still not enough? We mentioned an ARDUN Flathead V-8. The first-design 32 through early 38 engines had only 21 cylinder-head studs and until mid 1936 even used poured babbit main bearings. Two things to watch out for are an extra water hole in the block and the lack of a breather standpipe in the block. The new old cars got a lot of attention. Seal the heads to the block using slick new graphite-impregnated head gaskets available from Best Gasket, Red's Headers, and Tatom. But remember, we are talking about a seriously outdated engine design favored by a bunch of nostalgic old coots. Barney Navarro started machining Weiand speed equipment right before he started making his own in 1947. Most hot rod engines use oversize valves. Custom billets stretch all the way to 4.5-inch stroke. The present-day Arduns are CNC-machined using high-grade 356-T6 aluminum, have refined combustion chambers, and improved oiling and valvetrain components. Maybe they are only for dragsters. Next to the heater you will see a panel thats held in position by a pair of clips but its what rests behind the panel thats of interest. Tony Baron says that a good-running flathead should have no less than 0.400 lift and about 250 degrees duration at 0.050-inch tappet lift. A look inside gives you the sensation of an open air concept that could easily be seen in many of todays homes. $299.00. Four carbs on a properly designed intake manifold offer the best distribution short of today's dry EFI systems. Motor City also manufactures aluminum cylinder heads for Flatheads, and plans to build these all aluminum Flatheads in crate engine form. Turns out that's the third of three such engine combos owned by Scott Gillen, whose gray Deuce is this issue's cover car. MCF's born-again flatty will come standard with a 3 1/2-inch bore and 1/8-inch-thick cylinder walls, thanks to special insert sleeves. Traditional flathead airflow management practices call for relieving the block-removing metal between the valve-seat sides closest to the cylinder bore. Coolant needs to remain in liquid form when it circulates through the motor. There are several reasons for developing a new aluminum block for the Flathead. The story starts around a decade ago with Don Orosco, who after a lot of research and a not-inconsiderable investment, had 30 sets of Ardun heads reproduced for his personal racing efforts. Recommended bottom-line street-gas-friendly compression ratios are between 7.5-8:1 on naturally aspirated engines and 6.5-7.0:1 with a blower. The solution is to raise the boiling point by upping coolant-system pressure to 17-21 pounds, using a modern crossflow radiator and higher-pressure cap. He was basing his calculations on the assumption that a coefficient of friction of over 1.0 could not be achieved. Among Flathead builders there is . Wilcap also sells '32-'48 Ford mechanical-clutch hardware. Finally, there are brand-new aluminum blocks and Ardun OHV conversion heads and valvetrains. Fortunately, a wide variety of adapters are available to mate the venerable motor to todays automatic and manual transmissions. Rising from the console is a 1939 Ford truck shifter handle, while immediately alongside is a 1936 Ford steering column complete with ignition key and topped with a 1935 Chevy steering wheel. Back in the day, four-barrel carbs had barely been invented. Then the real work began on figuring out how to update and advance the original Flathead design, as well as how to cast the new parts. The only aluminum flathead block commercially available that I know of at this time is the block made by Don Ferguson for his Ardun heads. krylon32, Apr 26, 2010 SHARE POST #5 gooseta2 Member from on the edge dknlsdknvsl Last edited: Aug 11, 2012 gooseta2, Apr 27, 2010 SHARE POST #6 flatjack Member from Oshkosh, Wi. There's a fine juggling act between compression and promoting proper transfer from the offset valves across the piston top. The mixture must follow a tortuous U-turn path out the block-mounted intake valve, over to the main part of the chamber above the piston, and then back out the exhaust valve. Just sold him a fresh batch so I assume he's still building engines? Don Ferguson of Paramount Forge has designed an built aluminum FH blocks to be used with original or his Ardun Cylinder heads only. Those few Ardun heads that did trickle down were found at the lakes, on the salt, and at dragstrips, running on various types of fuel, setting records, and winning races. Edelbrock, Wilcap (Sharp), and Offenhauser continue to market a wide variety of intakes. blower it can achieve another 50 hp with 5 pounds of boost. There are kits to install Weiand and Magnuson superchargers, or even one or two GMC 71-series blowers. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. superchargers, which, like the heads, look period-correct but are filled with contemporary tech, in this case 4-71 helical-cut rotors. This improves airflow, but the resultant effective combustion-chamber-volume increase lowers the compression ratio, in turn decreasing horsepower and fuel economy. The Thickstun two-carb high-rise intake (today marketed by Baron) is an excellent street setup and it even provides clearance for the stock generator. That first 50 G's supplied a blueprint -more or less- And that was all. Magnuson offers an Eaton blower kit, while Joe Abbin of Roadrunner Engineering has Weiand 142 and 174 supercharger setups. What's the deal with that thing? Whats right for your engine differs per application. Although it sounds weird in this modern age of thin-wall castings, the 3 3/16-inch-bore, U.S.-built flatties can be bored 0.125-inch (1/8-inch-over). The man behind it all is Mark Kirby of Motor City Speed Equipment, out of Dundee, Michigan. small block chryslers (head approx 23" ) will be 201, 217/218, and 230 cu in, the 230 is the only of the 3 that has a 8 bolt crank flange. So, there is room for a little improvement over the original design, especially taking into account the advances in technology and engineering in the intervening 60 years! Sure, it's not cheap (really not cheap), but when was pushing the envelope ever inexpensive? Yeah, maybe in the thirties when Ford was considering powering airplanes with their V8's, but not these days. 226: Big News for The Custom Car Revival! The new old cars got a lot of attention. French blocks are about 30 pounds heavier than a standard flathead, which is a good indication of better metal and thicker walls. Tatom believes spreading the centers helps combat overlap-induced reversion with the flatheads siamesed center exhaust ports. This lateral flow severely restricts flathead breathing capability, although it does promote what todays high-tech engineers term swirl and tumble, which enhances fuel mixing and combustion. The mixture must follow a tortuous U-turn path out the block-mounted intake valve, over to the main part of the chamber above the piston, and then back out the exhaust valve. Centerforce offers clutches and flywheels. K&F Show #258: The Masters and Adam Sandlers 74 Duster; Movie Review Revisit Happy Gilmore! The block also has a number of upgrade internally, in terms of its intake and exhaust ports, as well as its valve guides. Lifters look nearly identical to the originals, except his are made from solid chilled iron. The downside was, as Flathead Engineerings Charlie Clark puts it, street rods began to look about as exciting as a belly-button-everyone had one., Among this herd of sheep, a few original hot rods were brought out of retirement, complete with gennie flatheads as the powerplant. Aree the new aluminum flathead locks in production yet? The Ford flathead V8 is a V8 engine of the valve-in-block type designed by the Ford Motor. Opens in a new window or tab. The foundation for this 1936 Ford three-window coupe is based on a Roadster Shop 1935-1940 Ford REVO chassis engineered for optimal street ride and handling performance. I'm doing an open 14.5 ci flathead for a friend of mine for the Big O from some stuff he has from a stock appearing and other flathead pieces, we're sleeveing a raptor III block down to 2.548", a Lunati .400 on a ARC 4.250" rod, 34.5 mm intake valve on a reverse port ground .437L cam. Brand New. It should be remembered that, although the Ardun has gained cult status over the years, the Arkus-Duntovs didn't have the money for fancy engineering and were working to a tight schedule as well as the restraints of the Ford engine block. With modern aftermarket cranks and rods using modern insert bearings, 5,500 rpm normally aspirated is not a problem, even with only three main bearings. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. For even more protection, install a crossflow radiator and increase coolant system pressure to 17-21 pounds. The brothers, working with designer George Kudasch, greatly enhanced the breathing and combustion efficiency of the flathead by developing an overhead-valve cylinder head with hemispherical combustion chambers. These Lincoln V12 Smooth Aluminum Heads are made in the USA and have the water outlet in the stock location. Most stock flatheads never came with an effective harmonic damper. Parts Only. What you see here, however, isn't just a pair of reproduction heads atop a Ford block but instead a brand-new, 284ci, all-aluminum improved block, reproduction Ardun heads, and vintage 4-71 blower (the only old part on the whole deal) bolted to a new manifold from Ken Austin. Flathead gurus like Don Ferguson and Tony Baron strongly urge that hot rod engines run a harmonic damper. ARDUN Enterprises is now replicating S.Co.T. There is also an ugly governor mounting boss on the left-rear of the block that many rodders prefer to machine off.
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