The Ford flathead V-8 engine changed hot-rodding forever. When introduced in 1932, the 221ci engine put out only 65 bhp, and even at the end of its production life in 1953 the larger Ford 239ci ...
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The 10 most legendary American V8 engines gearheads worship
From dry-lake hot rods to modern track-day missiles, a handful of American V8s have earned near-religious status among ...
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Ford’s Flathead V-8 Gave Power to the People
In fact, it’s hard to imagine how hot-rodding would have developed if the flathead—affordable, widely available, and wonderfully receptive to high-performance modification—hadn’t existed. “The ...
The Flathead Ford motor is legendary in many ways, most of them good. But one downfall of this great motor has been cooling. Even in 1932, the first year of the Flathead V-8, Ford was fighting an ...
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