another flathead bites the dust

oh F^%K I traded a 55 g***er style chev that had a small block 4spd for a 32 pickup with a flat head am I cool am I an idiot someone tell me quick one is a blast to drive but the other one was fun as hell!!OH MY GOD somebody help

 

oh geeez...i agree , it stinks to pull out that flathead

 

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oh F^%K I traded a 55 g***er style chev that had a small block 4spd for a 32 pickup with a flat head am I cool am I an idiot someone tell me quick one is a blast to drive but the other one was fun as hell!!OH MY GOD somebody help

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Walt with all due respect, I'm not sure what you mean here.

 

I don't care if someone pulls a flattie for a sbc cuz I love em both....

 

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I don't care if someone pulls a flattie for a sbc cuz I love em both....

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That's good for you and bad for me because there is a whole industry (catalog street rods) devoted to putting them in there. Makes me think that folks only trust Ford to build the body, the 9" rear, MII suspension and the F250 Super Duty tow vehicle to get to the rod show. The engine and the alternator must be brand X? Why?

 

?????? why is it bad for you.... if they pull it out doesn't it preserve it for future use unless they throw it in a lake. the motor he pull out won't get junked it will probably go up for sale sometime or put in another car. who cars it all fun

 

I COMPLETELY AGREE with Henry. Hit my thoughts right on the nose. Besides, the more people sporting a y-block could force the aftermarket monkeys to make cheap parts for it, too! Thats how it got started for the Chev Smallblock after the flattie...
-Crew

 

aw geez. Some people dream of having a flattie for thier ride.

If it has to be drivable and easily servicable at least stick with the same brand. 302's have almost as much aftermarket support and sticking a mouse mill in a Ford body just seems wrong.

ah well...his car not mine.

 

I like sbc and have owned several but this is now going to be a car that you will mostly walk past instead of stopping for a drool.
Now what happened to that old Ed Roth 55 Chev with the 406 ford?

 

G A Y

 

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If it has to be drivable and easily servicable at least stick with the same brand. 302's have almost as much aftermarket support and sticking a mouse mill in a Ford body just seems wrong.



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Tell that to Ryan, it is funny how this board will worship his car and without taking a breath talk bad about some guy they dont know that is doing the SAME thing to his?

 

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Tell that to Ryan, it is funny how this board will worship his car and without taking a breath talk bad about some guy they dont know that is doing the SAME thing to his?

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haha, good call Tman

 

Why would Ryans car have any effect on what I think a cool engine is ?? In the same breath, ask him what is going into the modified. Any traditional looking old ford is worth drooling over regardless of the powertrain in my book.

 

Ummmm, never mind..............

 

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If it has to be drivable and easily servicable at least stick with the same brand. 302's have almost as much aftermarket support and sticking a mouse mill in a Ford body just seems wrong.



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Tell that to Ryan, it is funny how this board will worship his car and without taking a breath talk bad about some guy they dont know that is doing the SAME thing to his?

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Tman would you feel the same way if the shoe was on the other foot? You know "restomods" are the hot ticket nowadays. Would the Chevy musclecar guys dig it if the trend was to slip Ford's latest Modular 4-cam motors into the ever limited supply of the now rare `60's Chevys? Why not???, they are powerful and have great driveability. Plus you can get them pretty reasonable from the salvage yards since they are available in a variety of late model Ford vehicles. Further the aftermarket support for that engine series is phenominal and the engine is a thing of beauty when all polished up. Somehow I think the Chevy aficionados still would'nt like it at all no matter what.

 

thats a nice looking flatty why dont you send it to me

 

"Good Choice - He'll go a hell of a lot faster with a SBC" Yeah--you should have seen poor Flatdog trying to pedal after those mean 15.5 second 350/350 '34's at Englishtown with his pitiful 12.9 second flathead '34. I mean, nostalgia is great, but we want to go fast, right?

 

Well said.
-Crew

 

I hear ya – Flatdog is the exception rather than the rule –

Then you gotta figure how much time and money did he spend to make a flatty do that???? Wit also has a blower – put a blower on a stock SBC and you are gonna woop him in a light car like that.

He could of had a 426 crate hemi for that much money

don't get me wrong - I think flatties are cool and I want one – In the right car

And I really only like SBCs that are done with the right taste.

I like what Rocky said. Both have their advantages.

Maybe this is brought up so often just because it is what car people do –

Argue what they like - that’s what is fun about it

Kinda like that bad show on the elcamino and ranchero – that was gay – but I watched it instead of CSI

 

Henry, first off the Chevy v8s blow away the new fords. why would you ever wanna do that, that and the ford motors are fugly.

the LS chevy motors are awesome and cheap. and you do see them put in all sorts of early muscle cars. so your point is moot.

Ford motors ****, cayse they decided to change everything every freakin 9 months so nothing interchanges. its a pain in the ***.

they made some awesome motors, but nothing lasted all that long, when the SBC went Unchanged from 55 to the 90s... if it breaks on the side of the road any parts store will have your parts. Reliability and parts availability.

 

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Puttin' a Chevy motor in a Ford is like sewing a ***** on Cindy Crawford...yea, you can do it but it ruins the original design!

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Thanks for that visual Krooser, but I think a staple gun would keep it on more securely.

The guy with the checkbook is always right. Someday, somebody's wife will want that stupid thing out of the garage, and one of us will be there to ****** it. We are only the caretakers of this stuff, too bad the '40 will now have less of a chance to be saved.

 

I remember the flatheads being replaced by offys and then the offys by chevys. I'd put either in mine buy I can only afford a chevy. Still it looks alright with 3 deuces and no modern plumbing and its period correct for 1960 which is about as old as I want to go back.

 

4t64d, How do you figure the '40 will have less of a chance to be saved? I must be living in the wrong place, I haven't seen any '40 Fords being thrown out with the trash regardless of what's under the hood.

Frank

 

Hey, let's all get out ******* in a bunch over something that's none of our business!

I know this is crazy, but some people are more concerned with making their HOT RODS go FAST on a budget (imagine that?) than creating a $50,000 rolling parts display that could be outrun by a ****ing Honda.

Oh, boo hoo, a chevy motor in a ford, my whole day is ruined now!

Give me a break.

 

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Hey, let's all get out ******* in a bunch over something that's none of our business!

I know this is crazy, but some people are more concerned with making their HOT RODS go FAST on a budget (imagine that?) than creating a $50,000 rolling parts display that could be outrun by a ****ing Honda.

Oh, boo hoo, a chevy motor in a ford, my whole day is ruined now!

Give me a break.


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OK, but there is STILL a LOT of flathead lovers out there.

Are we crazy? ... Maybe.
Are we trying to stop everyone who wants to switch to a SBC? ... Not really.
We just think the old flattie is still a neat engine. (views expressed above)

 

If it's posted on a message board, isn't it our business?
A flathead, while not a horsepower beast, is worth keeping in the car that it has served for many years. I know for a damn fact the chebby boys would outright reject, say, a '63 impala with a SOHC in it! But, yer never gonna see that 'cause chebbys are ugly. (j/k)
Anyway, the flathead was the first (to my knowledge) affordably priced v-8 on the american market, and to have one, and use it, is to be driving history. Unless that small block came out of a corvette or a tri-5, it ain't nothin but motovation, and there aint nothin special about that.
-Crew
P.S. If yer racing hondas in a 40 ford, do you even deserve it?

 

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P.S. If yer racing hondas in a 40 ford, do you even deserve it?

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If you are in your HOT ROD getting smoked by an economy car I think it is time for drastic measures. To me hotrods are supposed to be fast and cheap, big engine little car. Sure a sbc is over done but it is all about the speed. Who cares what he does it is his car and his money.

 

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Henry, first off the Chevy v8s blow away the new fords. why would you ever wanna do that, that and the ford motors are fugly.

the LS chevy motors are awesome and cheap. and you do see them put in all sorts of early muscle cars. so your point is moot.

Ford motors ****, cayse they decided to change everything every freakin 9 months so nothing interchanges. its a pain in the ***.

they made some awesome motors, but nothing lasted all that long, when the SBC went Unchanged from 55 to the 90s... if it breaks on the side of the road any parts store will have your parts. Reliability and parts availability.



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Short answers 'cause I gotta go.
1.) I have Ford V8's of all kinds in my shop, that makes 'em cheaper, therefore the logic says use `em right?

2.) LS engines are good, in fact they have many small block Ford characteristics which I'll be happy to describe to you later if you don't believe me. Only thing is LS engines are the ugly ducklings, why the plastic cover?

3.) Let's see variety is the ****e of life right? Flatheads, Ford & Lincoln Y-blocks, FE's, MEL's, Windsors, Clevelands, Thunderjet 429 & 460's, Boss's, Modulars,etc....you can have a freak'in car show and never see the same engine if you are into Ford stuff. Now the Chevys, trad small block to the `80's, Vortec, LT1,LS1,LS6....does all the stuff interchange between these engines??? Case closed.

4. ) I've been a Ford parts man all my adult life and I have yet to experience the alledged parts shortage the Chevy guys like to crow about. Both at the dealer and the local parts store, parts for V8's built by the second largest automobile manufacturer in the world don't ever seem scarce to me. Have I just been lucky all my life or does'nt that argument hold water?

 

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Hey, let's all get out ******* in a bunch over something that's none of our business!

I know this is crazy, but some people are more concerned with making their HOT RODS go FAST on a budget (imagine that?) than creating a $50,000 rolling parts display that could be outrun by a ****ing Honda.

Oh, boo hoo, a chevy motor in a ford, my whole day is ruined now!

Give me a break.


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*******??? I'm not wearing any right now.