Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-07-2020, 03:16 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-07-2020, 05:26 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-06-2020, 08:53 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-06-2020, 01:45 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-06-2020, 01:36 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-06-2020, 12:05 PM
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Re: Let's build a drag race 8BA engine
You may be interested to read about Barney Navarro's work with small displacement flatheads. He de-stroked some of his blown engines to fit into different race classes, but I believe he also...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-06-2020, 12:02 PM
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Re: Let's build a drag race 8BA engine
Haha. Yes they do. My Smith "jiggler" suggestion was in the spirit of keeping it a flathead.
In all my travels, I only saw one pair of Smith Jigglers and it was at Hershey. It was in the...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-06-2020, 08:51 AM
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Re: Let's build a drag race 8BA engine
In thinking of this, would a Smith-type "jiggler" head that placed the intake valve over the piston to allow for a higher lift/larger valve in order to get more air into the motor help?
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-06-2020, 08:07 AM
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Re: Let's build a drag race 8BA engine
For exactly this reason, in the 90's someone sold alky-only racing heads that had no water outlets or jackets. They were a billet slab and the customer could choose their own compression ratio. ...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-05-2020, 09:53 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
08-05-2020, 09:05 PM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-30-2020, 06:41 PM
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Re: Let's build a drag race 8BA engine
I'm with you on this, Tony. Those numbers seem really optimistic. There is book written by George Nichols (I believe) and he uses a similar dyno program. Every cam he put into the program had...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-27-2020, 08:09 PM
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Re: Let's build a drag race 8BA engine
This is not to sound like a fan boy, but more so as someone who admires mechanical ingenuity and the ability to problem solve. We are fortunate to have a bunch of these guys on this forum who are...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-24-2020, 11:13 PM
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Re: Let's build a drag race 8BA engine
I know he's busy getting ready to head out west to Bonneville, but I'd really like Ronnie Roadster to jump in on the bearing cap support part of the this discussion.
I don't want to misquote...
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-21-2020, 07:44 AM
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Forum: Early V8 (1932-53)
07-18-2020, 05:02 PM
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