HAHAHA.. who's the photoshop master??????If not... thats to much. My father -inlaw had a tractor 53 ford??? just like that year. I couldn't image what that thing would be like to drive... Thats trad...
No photoshop here. It was at the Antique Farm Equipment show in Tulare, CA. There was also this thing there.
It is more than common to find flathead motors in the old 9N and 8N tractors when the old coots engine would crack a head or seize up. Its a direct bolt in from what I understand. Oh yeah, The 327 chevys with the duble hump heads were a factory option in a few of the old combines from the 60s. You do know that Jeep was originally produced to be replace the tractor in American feilds, dont you? Till the Army got a hold of it and took it over to Europe in WWII.
Flatty V8's don't just bolt in, but there were kits sold back-in-the-day to do it. And now someone else is making kits again. My Pop's got 2 tractors like that, just waiting for their V8 transplants. Got to get one of those kits. alchemy
A friend of mine's Dad has 2 of those flathead Ford tractor conversions. They are worth lots of money. Of course they never had speed parts on them.
VERY COOL! The major supplier of V8 conversion kits was Funk Airplane Works. Current owners have meets all over the country. http://home.att.net/~jmsmith45/funk.htm
That thing kicks some major ass!!! Way to cool, I think we should have soem flathead tractor drags soon
Yup, Funk Aircraft made the origonal conversions. They did it to fill in slow time in the civilian aircraft production. As has been stated there are reproductions for the conversions kits being done now so if you have an old 8n, 9n, or 2n Ford tractor laying around you can plow the north 40 way faster than your grandfather ever dreamed. I have a friend in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan that's working on a conversion for a SBC. His business is repairing and restoring Ford tractors so he has a pile of EXTRA parts laying around. I just shipped him a small diameter SBC flywheel the other day to use in the conversion.It's a back burner project so I don't think it will be running for awhile. If he gets it done I'll get someone to post some pictures. Frank
Very cool! I love those tractor shows you see some really interesting things there. Hey least its got baby moon hubcaps! Check out the bell up front.
I wish I could remember the site... maybe yesterdaystractors.com... there was a guy who had a trio of "N" series Fords, with a smallblock from each, Ford, Chevy, and Chrysler! They were pretty rad. Then there is this dude I went to school with who's dad had a Farmall M with a 440+6 Chrysler in it back in the 70's... What a ride that would be! My buddy Don has a 2N, stock. Spent about 4 months in FLA for the winter, came home and decided to clean out the garage. After sitting totally idle since December, he pulled 1 notch on the throttle, put er in neutral and hit the switch. Less than one crank later, it was running. Absolutely amazing. Try that with a new Deere. Jay
There is an old ex-pulling tractor with a 409/425 Chevy in the area. I also know an old dude, mentioned above, with two of these old 8/9N tractors who's kid(s) are just itching to convert to an ARDUN headed V8. Probably not too many of them running around with that combo...
Here's a couple more from the show. Here's your Farmall And then there was this. Buy far one of the beest things at the show.
I have a 1941 Farmall B. Its a blast to drive cause it has the seperate brake pedals so you can lock one rear tire and do doughnuts. My dad restores antique tractors as a hobby.
The Case Hay Haulers had big block Fords in them in the mid to late sixties. They were pretty fast too. KK
In the 40s thru the mid 50s Sears Roebuck sold a kit to convert a ford A model into a tractor useing 2 transmissions to gear down real low. It also had concret mix to pour in the rim centers to add extra unsprung weight to the front wheels. This was popular I have not seen one in many years.
[ QUOTE ] In the 40s thru the mid 50s Sears Roebuck sold a kit to convert a ford A model into a tractor useing 2 transmissions to gear down real low. It also had concret mix to pour in the rim centers to add extra unsprung weight to the front wheels. This was popular I have not seen one in many years. [/ QUOTE ] So this thing was a real option. And not someones backyard mistake to ruin a car. If thats the case, then is this quite rare?
Years ago I remember seeing a Model A set up on blocks with a belt running off rear wheel powering a sawmill. You see some really cool old stationary 1 cyl engines at these tractor shows.I sold a 1945 John deere B couple years ago, rolled the flywheel by hand to start. Pain in the ass if you flooded it!
A guy that lives down the street from me has a model A with the twin tannies, him and his brother built this conversion in 1943. It has 16" wires in the rear with 8" pieces of angle Iron welded to them for traction, this thing is awsome, it has never been or never will be restored, it's a bad ass survivor. I'll take pics of it next week sometime. -Jesse
my brother saw an 8n similarly hopped up. all kinds of neat kits were available. my dad had a 1952 john deere 60 with the power block kit, which i THINK was a longer cylinder and stroke, with aluminum pistons and connecting rods. jegs ground the cam, he bored the carb jets out and i shit you not tripled the horsepower with that and other mods. it really pissed the other farm tractor pullers off when they saw VP racing fuel in the sediment bowls. it was still a farm tractor though, we still used it. just wasn't friendly on fuel oh, and the jeep was a farm vehicle after the war. the vehicle known as the jeep was militarily designed from the beginning. i did see a sort of infomercial from the day talking about surplus jeeps and this and that kit to make them farm vehicles.
[ QUOTE ] Very cool! I love those tractor shows you see some really interesting things there. Hey least its got baby moon hubcaps! Check out the bell up front. [/ QUOTE ] Huh, hate to break it to ya, but those are VW hub caps.
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