[Land-speed] OT: Old Flathead Engines

[Tom Bryant]

Mayf,

Six cylinder, I don't know...21 stud flathead Ford V-8s and then came the 24
studs per head in late thirties. Don't know why so many on a low compression
engine Fords. Block cracks were a bigger problem than head gaskets. My
Desoto V-8 had 10 bolts that held the rocker assembly and head. Worked well
for me and lots of compression, had .040 off the block and .060 off the
heads running shim head gaskets.

Tom

-------Original Message-------

From: drmayf
Date: 3/15/2010 3:16:59 PM
To: LSR
Subject: [Land-speed] OT: Old Flathead Engines

I am curious about something. That is the number of head bolts/studs on
flathead engines.  I had an old car once that had a Continental 6 cyl
and that sucker had about a million head bolts. Same with old Ford
flatheads, lots of bolts or studs. And yet, with todays high compresion
engines, greater dimensional tolerance requirements for flatnes, etc,
most only have 10 bolts/studs for each bank of cyliners.  What's up with
all the bolts on a low comp enigine?

mayf, just in from the shop area...mostly doing nothing...
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