|
|||||||
| Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
|
 |
|
Thread Tools | Display Modes |
12-21-2013, 11:33 AM
|
#1 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Alto, Tx.
Posts: 299
|
939 hp flathead
a whike back there a post about a guy that had built a 939 hp flathead out of a 49 8ba engine. Now I would like to find it and don't know how to find it. Help please. Jim
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 11:46 AM
|
#2 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Regina Canada
Posts: 1,335
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
|
|
|
|
| Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 11:49 AM
|
#3 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 2,173
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
Google's your friend. 8^)
Jack E/NJ |
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 02:29 PM
|
#4 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Highland,MI
Posts: 1,196
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
Bad ass!!
|
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 07:35 PM
|
#5 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Shelton, WA
Posts: 3,800
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
I'd say that dyno needs to be recalibrated. I don't buy that number.
|
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 07:54 PM
|
#6 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 2,173
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements)
http://www.wallaceracing.com/et-hp-mph.php Jack E/NJ |
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 08:34 PM
|
#7 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 464
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
According to that calculator the dragster has to weigh 2150 lbs
|
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 08:42 PM
|
#8 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Oakdale,Ca
Posts: 1,323
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
Don't the "calculators" look at RWHP?...i/e not flywheel HP?
|
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 08:45 PM
|
#9 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: oroville calif.
Posts: 1,453
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
just for giggles it would be nice to have one built as a rear engined dragster
|
|
|
|
|
12-21-2013, 10:13 PM
|
#10 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central MN
Posts: 108
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
Here is the video of the run he made in Brainerd this summer setting the record.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YHs0CG8MA8
__________________
"If you always do what you have always done then you will always get what you always got." Henry Ford |
|
|
|
|
12-22-2013, 10:07 AM
|
#11 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Union Pier MI
Posts: 392
 |
Re: 939 hp flathead
Damn, now that was impressive!
__________________
Still smokin tires and cigars |
|
|
|
|
12-22-2013, 12:19 PM
|
#12 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Near Rising Sun, Maryland
Posts: 10,858
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
That is a fantastic amount of horse power coming from a 49 8ba flathead engine. Are there details posted anywhere on exactly how that engine is built? I can only fantasize about what it would be like to have half that much HP in one of my street driven old Fords
 . I wonder how long it would take me to push the cluster gear through the bottom of the transmission case or snap an axle? 
__________________
John "Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts". Albert Einstein |
|
|
|
|
12-22-2013, 12:44 PM
|
#13 |
|
Member
Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Murillo, Ont.
Posts: 87
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
holy crap! what kind of RPMs was he pulling?
|
|
|
|
|
12-22-2013, 05:57 PM
|
#14 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Shelbyville TN
Posts: 174
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
I have watched that flathead run a couple of times at the Hot Rod
Reunion------It is one "BAD" car. Prediction of race times in a front engined rail is difficult to predict. The air, condition of the track and the amount of VHT chemicals makes a lot of difference. It did require about 920HP to get to 7.50 in a 1370 lb. car for us----and we turned the guts out of it(11,000 RPM). The car in question sounds that it turns about 7500-8000 RPM. I suspect the internal workings of that engine is "Top Secret". Don't think you will see that one in a magazine. |
|
|
|
|
12-22-2013, 06:45 PM
|
#15 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Posts: 16,440
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
When you poor the water jackets full with molten aluminum you know they aren't going to be driving it around much. The thing probably has a main bearing girdle in there too.
|
|
|
|
|
12-22-2013, 09:43 PM
|
#16 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 603
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
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.
|
|
|
|
|
12-27-2013, 02:37 PM
|
#17 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: May 2010
Posts: 427
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
need that motor in my 35 coupe
|
|
|
|
|
12-27-2013, 05:48 PM
|
#18 |
|
Senior Member
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Central MN
Posts: 108
|
Re: 939 hp flathead
Plus he is a super nice guy and likes to talk Flahead....
__________________
"If you always do what you have always done then you will always get what you always got." Henry Ford |
|
|
|
|
«
Previous Thread
|
Next Thread
»
Linear Mode
|
|
| Sponsored Links (Register now to hide all advertisements) |
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 12:24 PM.