i'll take the flatty as i sure cant afford the prancing ponies !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Yea that 52 truck does have a nice sounding Flathead. I like that Hood Ornament wish they had a better shot of it.

 

The flathead sounds like it does, so that all those guys who put 302/351, etc's in their trucks, can know that they screwed up!!



R

 

good answer rog !!! but they only partially screwed up . the ones who will really feel ill at our exhaust notes is the ones who put ch-bby's in 'em !!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

What??? You're kidding!!! People would actually DO that??

Sick fools!!

Oh, I get it...SBC in the bed, being hauled to the scrap yard...never thought of that. Most people I know yank them out, and let them rot, but at the price for scrap steel, might be worth doing...



R

 

LLLLLLOOOOOOOLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

the firing order will make its sound... i believe the Y's and Flats have the 1-5-4-8-6-3-7-2 order on V8's.

This is the reason why dodge and gm motors all have a similar poppy sound to them because they are 1,8,4,3,6,5,7,2. They all offer cams with 4-7 swaps(for power) which makes them sound better IMO and why you will never hear a real race chevy/mopar sound as poppy like one with a stock order.

I love the sound of BBF's any 351's or 302ho with 1-3-7-2-6-5-4-8.

call me weird but i think this is a possible answer.

 

Hehe they sound like a WW1 fighter plain, they even go pop pop pop pop like the fighters thats so cool, i'd love to have a old flat head

 

ya just gotta look nomad they are still out there . i got two of 'em in trucks and three partials in the gararge . adn found my bud norm one for 300 bucks running with tranny , radiator , and all associated hardware . it was still in the car when he got there and helped the guy pull it . damn fool pulled it cause it had been sitting 20 years and when he got it refired and running it smoked . putting a chubby in it . how original !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I don't understand why so many people put Moopars and chubbys in fords.. I really can't I found a video on youtube of this guy launching a ol truck with a 312 and my god that thing took off like a rocket I didn't know you could get thay kinda power of of them.... He smoked the tires in 1,2 and 3rd

 

Back in "the day" the 272/292/312 ruled the street. And look at the early stock car racing: Fords did very well. The reason the Chubby became so popular in drag racing was it weighed so much less than the Y block, and in a drag you didn't need durability.
Of course. in an empty pickup, smoking the tires is simple, even a old Stovebolt 6 could do that.

Cheers
Warren

 

Les:
The flathead does have a unique sound. I can hear one coming down the street and tell its a flathead. Sorta like a AK47, once you know what it sounds like, you don't forget. Ha.

 

took my truck to a show n shine this last weekend and i got peoples choice and a lot of them came up to me afterwards and told me the only reason they voted for me was when i did a drive by on arriving they all could tell i had the flatty. I love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Note to self: leave hood open.

 

The 272/292/312 didn't rule the drags back in the '50's the Chevy small block did. I'm a Ford fan, but lets call a spade a spade.

My father had a new '56 Ford Fairlane with the 312, 4 bbl and it was fairly decent.

The Y block was replaced after a relatively short run ('54-61 in cars, longer in trucks..'64?) because it wasn't able to compete with the Chevy.

The Ford small block, which was a great performance engine was introduced in '62 as a 221, then 260, then 289, in later years, eventually the 302. It was lightweight, a natural high revver, responded well to performance mods and a thoroughly modern engine, which made it's mark in the hi-po world in everything from AC Cobras to Indy engines to the basis for winning sports racing cars. It was truly competitive with the small block Chevy. In other words the Ford small block introduced in '62 was everything the old Y block wasn't.

This Ford engine, not the Y block, put Ford back into the performance game. Sure there was the 312 supercharged, but this was a low production engine, mostly developed to allow Ford to meet #'s criteria as a production engine to qualify for NASCAR.