Valley Gas Speed Shop - Rebuilt V8 Flathead
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Welcome to the website of HH Flatheads The home of Ford reconstruction specialist to light flathead wild HH began in 1972 with the reconstruction of all the first Ford engine flathead model A, B, s, t s and V8 Ford Flatheads 1932-36, LB s, s 59A, 8BA s, 60 s V8, Ford and Mercury We have steadily developed and expanded our engine services, we are now the exclusive distributors Navarro Racing equipment and Sharp Speed equipment We are always with new products, including air filters Navarro, Navarro 471 fan Kits, V8 adjustable lifters 60 and the new fan kits.
The Ford flathead V8 often called simply Flathead Ford or flathead Ford when the V8 context is implicit, as in the hot rodding was a V8 engine flathead type designed by the Ford Motor Company and built by Ford and other licensees the during the first decade of production, when OHV engines were scarce, it was generally known simply as the Ford V-8, and the first motor car model in which it was installed, the model 18, was and still is often simply called Ford V8, after its new engine when the engine was introduced in 1932, it was the first market in several respects in cars that were affordable to the consumer on the emerging mass market, he was the first 8-cylinder V8 the first, and the first V engine to become available it was the first V8 independently designed and built by Ford product louse r mass production, and ranks as one of the most important developments of the company 1 a fascination with still more powerful engines was perhaps the most salient aspect of the American car and truck market for a half -century from 1923 to 1973 Ford flathead V8 was perfectly in tune with the cultural time of its introduction, opening the way to a future in which the Ford motor company was a leading architect Thus, it has become a phenomenal success engine design, with various changes, but not great, 2 was installed in passenger cars and trucks Ford until 1953, making 21 years of engine production cycle for the market of US consumers for longer than 19 years of racing Ford model T engine 2 for this market the engine was on the list of Ward's 10 best engines of the 20th century, there was a coffee staple racers in the 1950s And it remains popular in the hobby of classic car, even today, despite the wide variety of other popular ensuing V8s.
Ford has also designed and produced a smaller 60hp V8 flathead from 1937 until 1940. Finally, the big 337 cubic inch V8 flathead, which was produced mainly for trucks and cars flathead Lincoln 1948-1951 Ford V8 engine during its introduction in 1932 were the first mass production V8 s where the cylinder block and the whole was poured into a single molded piece.
One of the most important innovations of the Ford flathead V8 was the casting of the housing and all 8 cylinders in an engine block This was the first time a V8 had never had that particular level of one-piece design, which was an example of production development required to bring a V8 engine widely affordable segment of the market 3 most V engines of the time had several cylinder blocks bolted to a common housing itself a separate cast in addition, each bank of the V was an integrated unit, but many V engines had 4 or even 6 cylinder block with cylinders cast in pairs or triplets Like most other engine blocks then and now, he was cast; but the practical handling of foundry workflows eg, equipment was a revolutionary breakthrough in the mass production of castings 6 Charles E Sorensen lived until his longtime nickname at Ford Fonte Charlie, leading this revolution to bring first V8 Ford on the market.
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