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01-21-2021, 11:20 PM | #1 |
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volume 50, #2 of "old cars" magazine, just out, contained an interesting article re: an engine put together many years ago and run in a '32 roadster. this was a 239, naturally aspirated with 3 97's and a few after market speed parts. dyno reading was 350 h.p. and rev'd regularly to 10,000 rpms, sometimes all the way to 12k. if you can acquire a copy of this issue, as i say, an interesting story and you can be the judge.
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01-22-2021, 09:54 AM | #2 |
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I read that article too, 10,000 on a flathead? Maybe that tach was reading wrong.
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01-22-2021, 10:13 AM | #3 |
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Somebody had their foot on the dyno beam scale.
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01-22-2021, 10:13 AM | #4 |
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Anyone selling popcorn? I'll looking forward to the responses about this one...
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Suspect the key words are in the first post, "this was a 239"
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Here's the article: https://www.oldcarsweekly.com/featur...ong-haul-deuce
"....Now 10,000 rpm might sound like a lot of fun, but it did present some problems."
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Getting that kind of RPM's is easy; just use a tachometer for a 4 cylinder engine.
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01-22-2021, 12:51 PM | #9 |
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During this time, I once drag raced down Yale Boulevard in Nampa (this was a bout 1963). I tried a full-throttle power shift at 10,000 rpm and the result was a blown clutch, transmission, drive shaft, differential and a broken axle. Witnesses said the front end came off the ground a good 2 feet.
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Maybe it's a case of the older I get the faster I was!
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The ’55 had an unbuilt 283-cid V-8 so I bought a motor adapter and installed the 283 in my ’32. What a disappointment that was. While I no longer had the heating problem, I had also lost a whole lot of power. It was OK, just not as thrilling as the full-race flathead. Old Cars is usually a very interesting read, but this is ridiculous.
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Fiction Novel.
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Tim Ayers: Your comment was fantastic. Liked the 2 feet off the ground.
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I guess the old theory about headers not helping performance on a flathead is true. This thing appears to have stock exhaust manifolds.
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