Featured Hot Rods Oh lord I bought another Ford

SBCs are made for flathead compartments

283 hooked to my merc trans. $50 swap meet adapter. Came with this pilot bushing adapter

this GM flywheel came from a 64-66 c10 with a straight 6. Correct Borg and Beck pattern

 

Built these simple side mounts

55/56 manifolds should clear your steering box

 

The flathead is unstuck lol. And with a little instruction from Tim @51504bat , the starter now works. Engine is cranking good. Pulled the distributor to clean points and bam, one of the breaker points has a broken spring where is the best place to buy this stuff?

 

If you have a good old fashion parts house near you they might have a source. If not, try 3rd Gen since they're close but my choice for flathead stuff I can't source locally is Joe's Antique Auto in Uxbridge, MA
Joe's Antique Auto Parts

Maybe this? But remember I'm an 8ba guy (with a Chevy distributor)
Contact point Set, 78-12171-S. Joe's Antique Auto Parts

Contact point Set, 78-12171-S

 

Nope, all of those parts houses are gone around here. Seen a set on Bob drakes sight, but i know Nothing about this stuff. Hate like hell to buy points so that I can find out that the coil is bad lol. Seen the electronic setup, but everything is 2 bolt, mine is 3 bolt, and they're outrageous. I just wanna hear it run lol.

 

It’ll buff out. Hehe.

 

Admit it @anthony myrick , you’d drive it. Hehe.

 

Michael at 3rd Gen can probably point (no pun intended) you in the right direction
844-327-5988

 

I’d rather buy it with a stuck flathead than a sbc..

 

Thanks Tim, I'll call them tmrw

 

Who needs 2 sets of points? Try it with 1 set where the secondary points would be located.

 

Who needs points when there's HEI?

 

Hey, Bro, that's my line!

Ben

 

HEI
Check please!

 

I bought a distributor from the auction site. Figured I'd be better off with buying a complete setup rather than buying points, then need something else lol. Fingers crossed

 

Careful. Next you'll have one of these stickers

 

Just WTF are these then? What covers them?

 

Heads?

 

Lloyd
You are going to have to go back to fighting fires so you don’t keep buying projects

 

Yeah, on a flathead Ford, the official name for the intake manifold is "valve cover".

 

On a SBC Canadians call them rocker covers.

 

I still think Lloyd is closet Ford guy
Dan

 

Can't make it if you don't spend it! Lmao

 

Me, Andy, and Chandler made some head way https://youtube.com/shorts/6CxL1taeZm4?feature=share

 

6 outta 8 ain't too bad! Might need a valve job tho!

 

I'll push it in a lake before I put that much effort into making 85hp.

 

It has good compression on every cylinder. I put a different distributor in it, it's close, but I'm positive it's still out of time. Wires are junk, and if course the carb was froze up solid with a half inch of crud in the bowl. I've got a carb ordered, supposed to be here this week sometime. See if I can figure out how to make run any better.