Flathead using Nitrous Oxide?

Kahuna

Kahuna

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I wonder if anyone has ever successfully used NO2 on a Flathead?
It seems to me that it could be effectively hidden under the manifold, using the feed lines coming thru the back of the block.
This is just an inquiry, as I have no real knowledge of this stuff at all.
Maybe if I were younger, I'd give it a try with an old (not so good block) & see what happens, just as an experiment.
Also, seems that it would create quite a "sleeper" of a Flathead, if it could be made to work. An easy way to add 100 hp or more?
As I recall, someone mentioned long ago, that the flathead design wasn't so good to use the Nitrious
No super charger showing...
Any knowledge out there in Barn-land?
Thanks
Jim
 
Kahuna said:
I wonder if anyone has ever successfully used NO2 on a Flathead?
It seems to me that it could be effectively hidden under the manifold, using the feed lines coming thru the back of the block.
This is just an inquiry, as I have no real knowledge of this stuff at all.
Maybe if I were younger, I'd give it a try with an old (not so good block) & see what happens, just as an experiment.
Also, seems that it would create quite a "sleeper" of a Flathead, if it could be made to work. An easy way to add 100 hp or more?
As I recall, someone mentioned long ago, that the flathead design wasn't so good to use the Nitrious
No super charger showing...
Any knowledge out there in Barn-land?
Thanks
Jim
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Have read that the biggest drawback to nitrous is the tendency to drive over your own crankshaft.
 
A friend of mine built a '32 roadster and he had nitrous. And he told me that on his way back from Indy, he was racing another guy with roadster w/ ZL-1. The guy with the ZL-1 couldn't get past my friend. My friend is an honest guy, he now has a coupe with a twin turbo charged flathead. I've ridden in the coupe, it hauls the mail.
Tom
 
40 Deluxe said:
Have read that the biggest drawback to nitrous is the tendency to drive over your own crankshaft.
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You mean somethin' like this? DD

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Our dragster goes alright on straight methanol ,
ran our best ever MPH on sat nite at the strip 140.2 MPH
 
After looking at the picture again, I'll bet "C & T Strokers" wasn't very happy to see it published so widely!:D
 
tubman said:
After looking at the picture again, I'll bet "C & T Strokers" wasn't very happy to see it published so widely!:D
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The old saying that applies is this- You can say anything about me you want, just don't spell my name wrong.
C-T had nothing to hide, their complete crank fell to the ground when the main webs failed in the block.
 
Fordors said:
The old saying that applies is this- You can say anything about me you want, just don't spell my name wrong.
C-T had nothing to hide, their complete crank fell to the ground when the main webs failed in the block.
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???
 
Why so pedantic? It was just my attempt at humor. And unless my eyes deceive me, that is an ampersand painted on the car.
 
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