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From: Erie, pa
If someone asks the question Why? when discussing Flatmotors they don't and never will get it.
I can only glance at modern engines, they are just flatout uuugly, however I can sit and stare at a Flathead for hours.
You can plug in a computer chip on your modern engine and add 50 hp in seconds, I can take days of tweeking this and that on a Flatmotor and maybe get 10 hp, it's a beautiful thing.
I'm having trouble seeing the puter screen, the tears are just welling up.
I can only glance at modern engines, they are just flatout uuugly, however I can sit and stare at a Flathead for hours.
You can plug in a computer chip on your modern engine and add 50 hp in seconds, I can take days of tweeking this and that on a Flatmotor and maybe get 10 hp, it's a beautiful thing.
I'm having trouble seeing the puter screen, the tears are just welling up.
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From: Colonsay Sk. Canada
Originally Posted by 4tl8ford
If someone asks the question Why? when discussing Flatmotors they don't and never will get it.
I can only glance at modern engines, they are just flatout uuugly, however I can sit and stare at a Flathead for hours.
You can plug in a computer chip on your modern engine and add 50 hp in seconds, I can take days of tweeking this and that on a Flatmotor and maybe get 10 hp, it's a beautiful thing.
I'm having trouble seeing the puter screen, the tears are just welling up.
I can only glance at modern engines, they are just flatout uuugly, however I can sit and stare at a Flathead for hours.
You can plug in a computer chip on your modern engine and add 50 hp in seconds, I can take days of tweeking this and that on a Flatmotor and maybe get 10 hp, it's a beautiful thing.
I'm having trouble seeing the puter screen, the tears are just welling up.
We should REALLY try to get the Flathead forum back humming again, even if not just technical questions, even if we get atleast 5 active members who just talk about anything old truck releated could become a good chapter, whoes in? lets save the flathead Forum.
I'll have the Roast Duck
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From: Northshore, MN
i don't frequent the flathead forum but some of us do, as well as the 47 and earlier crowd, and maybe the stray 1997-2003 f series guy looking to drop a flattie in his new fangled computerized truck that's starting to rack up the miles, lol.
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From: NM
Originally Posted by GreatNorthWoods
Flatheads make great boat anchors... 
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From: Colonsay Sk. Canada
Oh man that is awesome, work of art. Sad thing is probably a Flathead is a better chioce for a anchor. That Chev (spit) motor would rust away to nothing in minutes and the boat would just float aawwaayy, face it a Chevy small block doesn't have a use that man has thought of yet.
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Originally Posted by Snowking
Oh man that is awesome, work of art. Sad thing is probably a Flathead is a better chioce for a anchor. That Chev (spit) motor would rust away to nothing in minutes and the boat would just float aawwaayy, face it a Chevy small block doesn't have a use that man has thought of yet.
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From: Colonsay Sk. Canada
Ya guess I'm usually the first to take it over the line, wait a minute you said you got a sbc, uhoh not another one in the darkside.
sorry to offended, but I spent many and many hours on a old Massey combine with a straight piped 327 Chevy motor, and I know the can work dang hard in harsh conditions, and when the used small blocks in tandem grain trucks, that's extremely impressive.
But we gotta give the darksiders a rough time, don't we???
sorry to offended, but I spent many and many hours on a old Massey combine with a straight piped 327 Chevy motor, and I know the can work dang hard in harsh conditions, and when the used small blocks in tandem grain trucks, that's extremely impressive.
But we gotta give the darksiders a rough time, don't we???
Last edited by Snowking; Aug 13, 2007 at 12:01 AM.
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From: springfield il
yep they're all good like albuq said . there are so many chev's out there that eventually you're gonna own one , plus i'll admit they are damn inexpensive to build . when i was racing i eventually went with 'em as they were so dain plentiful , and my ford's just cost so much to build . if it say's anyting on the parts sheet other than the bowtie it seemed the price automatically doubled , then went from there back in the day .... now the only appropriate place for a flatyy on water would be in one of those beautiful ol' {i think } kris kraft wooden works of art boats !!!!!
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From: Littleton, New Hampshire
Originally Posted by 55 f350
chevy's make better ones !!!!!!!
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From: NM
Originally Posted by Snowking
Ya guess I'm usually the first to take it over the line, wait a minute you said you got a sbc, uhoh not another one in the darkside.
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From: Colonsay Sk. Canada
Originally Posted by 55 f350
yep they're all good like albuq said . there are so many chev's out there that eventually you're gonna own one
And very good to hear you're not on the darm side you got a really nice truck with some mods that I'm looking at for mine!
Last edited by Snowking; Aug 13, 2007 at 08:16 PM.