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Old 12-13-2018, 10:49 AM   #1
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Interesting video... NICE 3d printed model of a flathead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixhYVcWwJiY
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Cool video. This video nicely explains why I am always so baffled that people spend so much money trying to hotrod a flathead. It's like trying to train for the olympics with a severe case of COPD. Don't get me wrong, I think the flatty is a VERY cool engine, it's just not suitable to try to make any kind of power out of. Thanks for sharing.
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Great model and video, thanks Karl.
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Old 12-13-2018, 11:15 AM   #4
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You just don't understand the nostalgia Hot Rod spirit! It is because of the flatheads limitations that makes it interesting and challanging to work with. Just about anyone can hop up a SBC!
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Looks like you can download the files and print your own or buy the kit for $95.
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Cool video. This video nicely explains why I am always so baffled that people spend so much money trying to hotrod a flathead. It's like trying to train for the olympics with a severe case of COPD. Don't get me wrong, I think the flatty is a VERY cool engine, it's just not suitable to try to make any kind of power out of. Thanks for sharing.
To each his own, but isn't that the point of hot rodding? Trying to make something out of nothing?

At least that's what it is to me.

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You just don't understand the nostalgia Hot Rod spirit! It is because of the flatheads limitations that makes it interesting and challanging to work with. Just about anyone can hop up a SBC!
I get the nostalgia aspect. Like I said, it's a cool engine. I guess I'm just a traditionalist when it comes to hotroding.
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Nothing more traditinal than hot rodding a flathead! Started the day the first ones got in hands of the public.
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Nothing more traditinal than hot rodding a flathead! Started the day the first ones got in hands of the public.
Hot rodding a flatty is period but no longer traditional. "Traditionally", Hot rodders took the best candidate the day, souped it up and/or put it in an older, more affordable chassis and, from '32 to '53, that's what hotrodders did. Keeping with that "tradition", after 1955, hotrodders abandoned the flatty for the most part in favour of the SBC for the same reasons that they chose the flatty before that. The flathead ford was the SBC of the 30's and 40's, the proverbial "bellybutton motor". Abundant, relatively cheap and lots of hod rod parts available for it just like the SBC has been for the last 60 years. Traditional hotrodders of the 30'and 40's didn't choose the flathead for the "nostalgia" of it. They chose it because it was the logical candidate of the time. If they were doing it for nostalgia like we do today, they would have been "souping up" model T engines. Regardless, it's all just semantics anyways. I think tricked out flattys are great and I love them. I just can't wrap my head around the cost/HP ratio and while they are "hotrods" in the period sense, they are not "hotrods" in the traditional sense any more. JMO and I don't want anyone to get the impression that I am pushing that opinion on anyone else. Nothing could be farther from the truth. To each his own and I support and appreciate anything someone else does to their car if it makes them happy.
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Well in 1976 I was doing a Model B with a Cook four port. So I have upgraded to a flatty
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Interesting video... NICE 3d printed model of a flathead.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixhYVcWwJiY
Need one of those in the living room
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When something like that is made with a 3d printer, can the parts be immediately assembled or do they all need to be machined first?
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Cool video. This video nicely explains why I am always so baffled that people spend so much money trying to hotrod a flathead. It's like trying to train for the olympics with a severe case of COPD. Don't get me wrong, I think the flatty is a VERY cool engine, it's just not suitable to try to make any kind of power out of. Thanks for sharing.
https://youtu.be/y9q6AS-11fs
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Cool video. This video nicely explains why I am always so baffled that people spend so much money trying to hotrod a flathead. It's like trying to train for the olympics with a severe case of COPD. Don't get me wrong, I think the flatty is a VERY cool engine, it's just not suitable to try to make any kind of power out of. Thanks for sharing.
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Here's Rick Schnells blown flathead V/8 on nitro making 900 HP.
Have a ride along in the video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHs0CG8MA8





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Here's Rick Schnells blown flathead V/8 on nitro making 900 HP.
Have a ride along in the video below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHs0CG8MA8

"The 1949 Ford flathead was filled solid by pouring aluminum into the water jackets, the center exhaust ports were separated and the three main bearings were reinforced. Billet steel can be found everywhere, including the crankshaft, rods and camshaft. Induction is achieved with a Hilborn fuel injection system and of course, a Teflon stripped 4-71 GMC blower on a home-built manifold. The heads are solid billet aluminum that Rick machined himself. What started as an 85 HP motor eventually became a monster power unit, putting out 939 HP on the dyno with only 60% nitro.". While it has pretty much nothing in common with the original engine, it IS still a flathead and IS impressive. Thanks for sharing.
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How does one contact Eric Hammel about one of the flathead models? It would be a very neat training aid in teaching others about the Flathead V8.
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You guys ever read the comments after those u tube videos? Sometimes the stupidity makes your head swim.
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You guys ever read the comments after those u tube videos? Sometimes the stupidity makes your head swim.
Oh yea, not just car videos either! Watch a few hunting videos and read the comments afterwards.
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Cool video. This video nicely explains why I am always so baffled that people spend so much money trying to hotrod a flathead. It's like trying to train for the olympics with a severe case of COPD. Don't get me wrong, I think the flatty is a VERY cool engine, it's just not suitable to try to make any kind of power out of. Thanks for sharing.
The most satisfying thing is when you have the fastest of them all in your venue.

As far as power goes, 700 plus isn't bad for any engine..
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I don't think anything is wrong with a printed engine block. Think it's still a decade from reality. But it's pretty close, it will happen. Of course it's not an original block, more like a fake one. But I would buy one if I needed it. I like flatheads.


55secs in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0v5cciHE50


That block was printed in plastic. and depending on the machine needed a far amount of "milling" to make it smooth. 3D printer work on laying layers down. The better the machine the better the gap of layers. It's possible. Most early and less expensive machines I've dealt with on a small level are very early to be profitable and too small. But it is a real thing.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FkzLs7cLes

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