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21. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: NT788@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 07:53:55 +0000 (UTC)
All the serious competitor's can buy their old spec. enginesB from the same licensed builder! They will be allowed to provide their own carburetor jets. Now that's very level and fair! Records of old
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00031.html (10,477 bytes)

22. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: NT788@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 07:57:07 +0000 (UTC)
All the serious competitor's can buy their old spec. enginesB from the same licensed builder! They will be allowed to provide their own carburetor jets. Now that's very level and fair! Records of old
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00032.html (10,356 bytes)

23. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: NT788@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 08:04:28 +0000 (UTC)
All the serious competitor's can buy their old spec. enginesB from the same licensed builder! They will be allowed to provide their own carburetor jets. Now that's very level and fair! Records of old
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00033.html (10,186 bytes)

24. [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: "Kirkwood" <saltfever@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:00:26 -0700
Mayf the rules are to replicate hot rod technology that was in general use at the time. Nitrous was a German secrete. It was definitely not used in Hot Rods of that time. It wasn't even known until a
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00034.html (9,282 bytes)

25. [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: "Kirkwood" <saltfever@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 02:21:27 -0700
Jack I'll agree that the current roll bar might be a rare handicap in some open bodied classes. However, there are plenty of vintage sedan classes where there is no effect. Currently, there is a 5 ma
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00035.html (8,541 bytes)

26. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: Rich Fox <v4gmr@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:03:37 -0700 (PDT)
For Jack and others who favor blanket amnesty for migrant flatheads I have devised a short test. You only have to read one short sentence. But you do have to read it. No skimming. Try to concentrate.
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00036.html (8,038 bytes)

27. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: drmayf <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 07:53:57 -0700
Rich! Ok, I got it! So every motor in this class is exactly as it rolled out the door in an old ford car! It say PRODUCTION engine. Not block. ENGINE! So it should have the exact cam, the exact lifte
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00037.html (8,987 bytes)

28. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: NT788@comcast.net
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 17:30:21 +0000 (UTC)
So Spec. engines it is? Or just pure honest good people having fun?B P roabition made bootleggers! B Why isn,t a timing slip good enough for your antique, it always looks and sounds good in a museum!
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00039.html (9,607 bytes)

29. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: Rich Fox <v4gmr@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:48:32 -0700 (PDT)
Jack. You got it. No body is stopping you or anyone from building a French flathead and running in E or D classes against SBC motors and whatever, and beating them if you can. When a Conservative see
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00040.html (10,707 bytes)

30. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>
Date: Fri, 06 Aug 2010 19:56:27 -0700
XF CLASS CONSISTS OF ANY PRODUCTION FORD/MERCURY PASSENGER CAR V-8 FLATHEAD ENGINE Hell, even I can understand that. Thanks for the quick glimpse, of clear, rational thought Rich. Rich, now if I'm ri
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00046.html (8,923 bytes)

31. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: "23weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 22:05:05 -0700
OK guys.... As long as we're into the "much ado about nothing" mode here comes the kind of question that you ought to expect from Ed Weldon. Assuming here that only the block needs to be a production
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00047.html (10,463 bytes)

32. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pahrump.com>
Date: Sat, 07 Aug 2010 09:07:46 -0700
Thank you everybody for an informative and entertaining dialogue on the Flathead Ford/Mercury engine. I know a lot more than I did previously and hope that nobody got too upset as I notice a lot of s
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00049.html (8,211 bytes)

33. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: dan warner <dwarner230@yahoo.com>
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 09:40:03 -0700 (PDT)
No sensitivity on my part. As Sgt. Joe Friday used to say ... "Just the facts Mamne" DW From: Skip Higginbotham <saltrat@pahrump.com> Subject: Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead To: "23weldon" <23.weldon
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00050.html (9,126 bytes)

34. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: NT788@comcast.net
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 18:10:06 +0000 (UTC)
Jack says ; Just opinions and information! -- Original Message -- From: "dan warner" <dwarner230@yahoo.com> To: "23weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>, "Bryan Savage" <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>, "Rich Fox
/html/land-speed/2010-08/msg00051.html (9,769 bytes)

35. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: Bryan Savage <b.a.savage@wildblue.net>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:13:29 -0800
Maybe I'm missing something but it says to me that the engine was originally made to be installed in a PRODUCTION CAR. Not an airplane or a bulldozer or a boat or a tank or etc. Maybe I'm stupid but
/html/land-speed/2011-01/msg00048.html (8,270 bytes)

36. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: Larry Mayfield <drmayf@mayfco.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 18:59:13 -0800
Hmmm, some how I missed the front end of this annual discussion. I was part of it once just for fun. Well, here I am again... Closer examination of the all cap sentence leads me to ask a series of qu
/html/land-speed/2011-01/msg00049.html (9,826 bytes)

37. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <dahlgren536@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:46:00 -0500
Personally I think many of the rules have left the entire spirit of Hot Rodding in general. The reason i make that statement is they used what was readily avialable no matter where it came from. It i
/html/land-speed/2011-01/msg00050.html (10,460 bytes)

38. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: "Dave Dahlgren" <dahlgren536@comcast.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:10:07 -0500
Maybe I don't understand the rule I assume there is a place to run a Caddy flathead should you want to though I don't persoonally. Dave In real life if you have a standard size Ford Flathead, no one
/html/land-speed/2011-01/msg00051.html (7,805 bytes)

39. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: dan warner <dwarner230@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 06:37:34 -0800 (PST)
To answer Dave. The XF rule is the way it is because thats how the people who run the class voted to word it. Other flatheads are able to run in the XO classes, it is XO (X other), not XO (overhead v
/html/land-speed/2011-01/msg00052.html (8,601 bytes)

40. Re: [Land-speed] Ford Flathead (score: 1)
Author: Rich Fox <v4gmr@yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2011 09:52:22 -0800 (PST)
Apparently there are at least three people who believe the Flathead Cad is the answer. And plan to prove it in 2011. As the Cad is over 325 cid it will run in XXO with the 375 cid limit. OHV engines
/html/land-speed/2011-01/msg00053.html (8,817 bytes)


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