Hipo Model B
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Fullraceflathead
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Model A. performance tip #37 when you point the valves downward you can double your horsepower!!!
ThirstyThirty
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johnneilson
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ThirstyThirty
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the 238 mph 'streamer that ran trick Model A block, etc... used 3!
but you got the right idea...4! the engine builder of the A engine said... "for getting max power out of an engine... takes 4 valves per cyl!" and backed that up with a comment about the new Corvette engine running per cyl...
4 valves!
johnneilson
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ModelA29
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Video of Roy Creel with his DOHC B engine on the dyno.
It must be something in the water..... John Neilson lives near Roy and also Carol Mosher. She and her husband Ron started Ford A Speed Technology F.A.S.T. https://www.hotforhotfours.com/index.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IejbsUzmVI0
about the dyno tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dswKW6g6bo
It must be something in the water..... John Neilson lives near Roy and also Carol Mosher. She and her husband Ron started Ford A Speed Technology F.A.S.T. https://www.hotforhotfours.com/index.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IejbsUzmVI0
about the dyno tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dswKW6g6bo
Fullraceflathead
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Now that's high performance!!!
ThirstyThirty
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My perspective is that it stops being a real Model A engine when converted to overhead valves or more than three main bearings.
Where do you draw the line and just put in a modern replacement engine?
I'm sure not too many will agree.
In the purest sense of originality, I would say you are correct! ~