Recent content by Flat32

A passionate man dedicated to researching and posting accurate facts to the many Early Ford fans that share the passion. That is his legacy, shared knowledge, and parts, whenever needed. Credit him when you pass on the knowledge he so generously gave to us. I can only imagine the many hours he...

Great. Thanks Wayno. I pulled the trigger and ordered a complete Zephyr gasket set so I'm covered for the V12.

I've spent hours searching for cylinder bore spacing and find nothing. I know the spacing for the Flathead v8, but not the Lincoln Zeyphr and the V8 60. I'm needing these dimensions to make my computer models of these engines. I know Ford used fractional dimensions for bore spacing so simple...

Ross, I may be the guy you're thinking of when mentioning 268" engine in a '32 coupe, but I never ran a quarter mile in the twelves, best time was 13.3 something seconds. My injection system is in your face purpose built while Vergil's is cleverly hidden preserving a traditional carbureted...

I've played with a hydraulic valve lifter design that I call a jack lifter. In theory small plungers (3 or four) surrounding a central one hit a positive stop causing the contained oil in the lifter to push the central plunger up relative to the rising lifter. On a stock cam profile rate of...

How many miles on the odometer?? How much of a ridge in the cylinders? Are valve seats pitted? Are valve stems worn? Was it recently running? You mention a "budget" and "stock rebuild". You could simply replace parts that are broken or worn out of factory specs. Your broken split valve...

Walt, I sent you a PM. Flat32:)

Not urgent. Have a 1934 coupe and 1934 stock engine partially torn down. Would like to get engine together and running during a one or two day trip to NJ where car is being prepped for sale. In Bloomsburg, PA now. Brother mucked up a valve, spring and guide taking the engine apart 20 years...

I'm far from home and in need of a couple split valve guides, mushroom valves and springs. Used, but serviceable is fine. Want to pick up local in Bloomsburg, PA area or Chester, NJ area. Flat32

I have eight computers and only one connects to the internet. Every morning I delete all emails that are from senders I don't know and never open them. Kaspersky warns me when I click on websites. Haven't backed up my hard disk yet only because I don't have the kind of disc needed. Have an...

The numbers don't mean anything except for comparison to others my engine generated. It's the shape of the curves that I find most useful along with indication of whether my attempts at improving are yielding expected results. I rather enjoy waving around timeslips, but few understand what...

Crank is offset for mechanical advantage, I think, while piston pin offset may or may not be depending what the engineers intended. Modern engineers "see" things a little differently it seems to me, more refined. Flat32:cool:

Actually it's the torque numbers within your driving rpm range that matters most, IMHO. Horsepower numbers tend to be used in sales hype advertising and the advertised number is probably seldom reached, if ever, in normal driving. Again, IMHO. Flat32:cool:

Google it. Mostly pin offset is done to reduce side loading of the piston on the power stroke, as I understand it, and the old time intent seems to have been to reduce piston scuffing. Like many other things related to internal combustion engines the effects of a mechanical change get quite...

Supercharging and exotic fuels are great, I suppose, but before you consider a maxed out race configuration to judge our Flathead think about what it can do as a street driven hot rod (daily driver in my case) which is what many on this forum have. This is what can be achieved without major...