Ok, so It's an Early Flathead V8 but what year/car would it be found in? Somebody out there has to know this one .
Looks like a 32 Lincoln V-8 3- 1/2" bore x 5 " stroke 384 Cubic inches. 5.32 compression, 1932 max HP was 150@3400
Its... an ENGINE! what do I win.. I love these guessum threads.. most of the time I have no idea what the item in question is..
Interesting, I didn't know that Pontiac/Oakland had an early V8? But nope that's not it. -I wish I could say that I took the pics or at least saw the car but these were just 'as found' pics of a rare V8 sitting in it's original body. I kinda dig the oil level site gl***. Makes me wonder if the oil pan is aluminum or just painted silver? I want to think that this is an original car with correct paint even on the oil pan but who knows? One things for sure, I had never even thought of this companies history and/or engine choices. Seeing a V8 in this Marque was more of a learning experience rather than a surprise.
Moefuzz, OK, That is a 29-32 Lincoln 384 CID engine. It may be in some off-brand coach built ch***is, But that does not change the fact that it is a LINCOLN V8 http://www.hemmings.com/cl***ifieds/dealer/lincoln/unspecified/1169549.html SOO, where are you going with this? you want us to guess which custom coach built body it is from the engine they used?
Ok, I had to get some more pics uploaded It is a Lincoln but I have little info on the engine. Wikipedia states that in 1922: " An unusual feature of this power unit was the 60 degree separation of the cylinder blocks that helped to cut down on synchronous vibration found with similar engines with 90 degree separation produced at the time." Horse power was said to be 90 bhp. This engine is from a 27 Doctors coupe. It's a pretty neat car, the slanted front windshield with wedge shaped window sets the style of the day. This must be a pretty rare car having sold in the late 20's for 5 or $6,000 Dig that front bumper Good Call jrBlack! .
Starting primers would be my first guess. The carb is an updraft that is remote, I would think it would take a lot of cranking to get fuel/air mixture into the cylinders. Owner would put a couple drops of gas in each cup, open valve, close valve and give her a crank. Compression dumps? Release trapped air in cooling p***ages? Not sure
Wow, we had a Bren Gun Carrier out the back of an Air Museum I once worked at. It was in poor condition and had been dragged off of a farm that it did many years service as the tractor. At some stage the good old Military flattie was gone and there was another flathead V8 in there that I couldn't identify. Now I know, a Lincoln Flathead V8............. Man the farmers put some weird and wild things in there vehicles in the years after the war. On of our Merlin's that was displayed mocked up in a Mustang forward section was found in a TRACTOR! And you Texans thought it was your idea with tractor pulling!! Doc.
BeatnikPirate, It's amazing the kind of hp they were getting in the late 20's. Sure the big luxury liners had gobs of power but the average car guys had to put up with 45 or 65 at best. There is a lot of history in the American Automobile, Years ago I remember seeing a large poster of the "2000 car names" manufactured in North America. Here on the HAMB we seldom deal with more than a dozen or 2 brand names. Willys seems to be about the most exotic name plate mentioned (at times). A lot of history is out there but not easily found. Of course there's a lot more info at our fingertips now than there was 10 or even 5 years ago. I wonder what it'll be like in another 5 or 10 years. I recently picked up 125,000+ pages of early Ford, Mercury, Lincoln and Edsel parts drawings/numbers all in .pdf form. I'm hoping that in another handful of years hundreds of thousands of pages will be available on the 2000 car marques that have been built in North America.
jrBlack, I'm kinda thinking that they are primers. And as far as the basic engine itself goes, and from the little info I have scrounged, the block was the same as when Lincoln was purchased from Henry Leland in 1922 (don't qoute me on that) so I guess that your '29-32 Lincoln' guess is as close as we get. Ford introduced the V-12 in '32 which would have replaced the original Leland designed V8 that we see here. Doc, Yes its amazing what got used and re-used. I'd say that your Lincoln V8 musta been a pretty rare mill down in Australia. Up here, The great depression lasted pretty near up to the War and then things really got tight. Although that's a little before my time I often wondered what happened to all the parts on the early Iron that the farmers fields. Up here it was the motors that were mostly re-used. And the hoods of many a good truck were taken to use as sleds for the kids in the winter. Grandad used to rob nuts and bolts from the back 40. The biggest problem was that many bolts didn't come with an attaching nut and alot of early automotive bolts were oddball threads. Studebaker had to be the king of oddball bolts (in my day), every bolt was fine thread and was custom made just for Studebaker. About 35 years ago, The local Fire department (thru annexation) re-acquired their original 1927 American Lafrance Fire Engine. The '27 was the first gas powered truck the city had ever owned. The city didn't want it so they put it up for sale and a group of fireman bought it. It was in sad shape with a severely cracked block. In 1975 a stranger approached them and said that there was a similar engine sitting in central Manitoba on his (deceased) fathers old farm and they could have it if they wanted it. It was apparently attached to an old saw mill. Sure enough when they got to the vacant farmyard, there was the engine they needed sitting right where the stranger said it would be. 35 years later the truck is making the parade routes.
The lil cups on head are for priming engine when it was cold. Could also be used as compression release when you flooded it or while tuning . At least thats what the 80yr old guy told me they was for on his Dorris
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