Hi. I'm fairly new to flatheads but I'm a bit puzzled by what i discovered in my french 1953 Ford Comète. When new it had a 80 hp 2355 cc engine which i ***ume is similar to the V860. This car has a mechanical tach driven from the camshaft. In 1966 the car was imported from France to England and at some time received a British 21 stud Pilot flathead. The French distributor housing fits perfectly to the English timing cover which i though a bit odd since the engines seems quite different to each other. The distributor however is a dual point Chrysler from a 1956 Chrysler B300. It all seems to fit toghether nice. Should i continue with this distributor set up or is there something better out there?
There may be something better. But how good do you need it to be? This should be fine for anything I can think of a flathead is going to do.
Ford flatheads had the same distributor mounting pattern from 1932 through 1941. Both the 85 and 60 sizes took the same distributor.
I just want a reliable engine, I'm planning to drive it in the Rally Monte Carlo and Mille Miglia. I guess the real concern is overheating though.
I doubt the distributor will have much effect on flatheads tendency to run hot. The first gen Hemi distributor parts and design looks to me to be the exact same thing Mallory was selling in their own distributors.
I would say so. In 1992 I ***embled a 468 cid Pontiac engine for Larry Climbe's GTO he bought new in '68. We decided to put it in my car and run it at Bonneville to try it out. In a particularity graceful move I broke the distributor cap on his Accel compe***ion distributor. The day before we were leaving. I removed the used cap from a '56 Dodge hemi that I had. Stock distributor. It was perfect fit for the Accel distributor. Points and rotor also looked to be OEM Chrysler. Car went 208.526 mph. As far as I know that same cap is still on it So Accel was using MoPar parts on their compe***ion distributors also. Good stuff.
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