[Land-speed] OT: Old Flathead Engines

Mike Lackey mike_lackey at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 15 17:31:15 MST 2010


I dunno about flatheads...

But I know that ten fine thread, M11 head bolts
are not adequate on my Northstar V8...

Mike


----- Original Message ----
From: drmayf <drmayf at mayfco.com>
To: LSR <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent:
Mon, March 15, 2010 3:16:13 PM
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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