Projects Simca Marmon Flathead V8 from 1987!

It has a gigantic two piece truck pan. The German ones have lovely aluminium pans you can use. I've got a 59A-B steel pan to use.
I still don't know whether it's easy to convert the oil pump pickup. I'll get to that later.
Yes it's great to find out you can use a Zephyr carb on the French aluminium manifold. That'll look crazy cool all in naked alu.

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hard to believe grown men can get so excited over a flathead!!! I had my fill of them in my 1953 Ford! have fun!

 

I was wondering what you'll be doing with that distributor. Any thoughts on selling it?

 

Its probably 24v system

 

Big duece, I would think it might be. I want to put together a flathead Ford powered flatfender Jeep and would like a waterproofed ignition system for it.

 

Yes. It'll be available. One of the spark plugs is damaged but I could get another one.

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I don't want to hijack the thread but I have a 3.9 cargo engine and a 4.2 marmon crank do you think it's worth the trouble?

 

"I don't want to hijack the thread but"..... I am going to do it anyway. Start a new thread with a good title and you will get many more answers to your question. Much better then posting on an existing thread.

 

The French also had regular 59A type aluminum pans. Source not known by me...According to general reading here and there there were 2 different army truck types relating to the recent discovery of 1980-'s flatheads, but of course there were also many real Ford trucks built there (SAF, not post-Ford military) using normal European flatheads.
I suspect these used 1942 type 239's carried over from WWII until Ford sold out of the French market...dunno for sure.

 

Nice! Just got my first Hot Rod 2 weeks ago. Has a 1946 Flathead. Super excited about it. Good luck with yours.

 

A question about water pumps. Obviously these gigantic water pumps are going to have to go. I read somewhere that only truck pumps fit. Is this true or can I fit normal 59A-B passenger pumps.

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The trunk pumps from Drake are what I used. They were used a lot because of the low mounting pad, Mercs where high mounting pad, and the cars didn't have the pad?? The French block is mainly a 8ba block, with a 59a bellhousing . So, use 8ba style pumps. The main reason to use 8ba pumps, the pulleys stick out front to clear the distributor. Get a 8ba crank pulley too.

 

You can also use that timing cover, it has a cool thrust button for the end of the camshaft. I made a bushing that makes up the difference when installing a stock or aftermarket distributor.

 

i used 8BA truck pumps too. Originally they are staggered. After conversion no more, what i found to be good. You can use them with the original pulley when using a wide belt. No other crank needed. Yours should be 4"

correct, but usually those don´t have the 4" crank as they are from early trucks (Cargo)