The perfect "street engine"

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Tim Ayers

When speaking to the few salt racers I know, they are more tight lipped than a frog’s behind. They don’t give away any secrets at all. I would be really surprised if this article revealed all their tricks. I could be wrong.

It is not just salt racers that are tight lipped Tim.
Anyone that spends 40K for a race engine is sure not going to tell anyone what he spent it for.
I have never seen an article or a book on how to build an engine like the 777 had 3 of or what John Bradley, Whitey MacDonald, the Bean Bandits, Speedy Spiers or a dozen others had in their engines. All of those engines were naturally aspirated and got well over one hp per inch. There is a guy with a modern vintage style dragster right now that is getting well over 2 hp per inch from a blown FLATHEAD on fuel.
You sure are not going to see a parts list for that one.

The engine written up in HR is a healthy street engine at 249+ hp. There is another street flathead engine write up in the AERA magazine this month. These are good street engines but are not even in the same universe as a modern flathead all out race engine.