Thread: High Power Flathead

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Ken, when I first heard of those the story was they were targeting the lakes racing crowd. Never have seen or heard of a set in use, there must be some out there though. About a year or so ago the tooling for those was up for sale. Seems I remember the original guys were in No. Cal. so apparently the guy near you bought the tooling?

Originally Posted by Bob Parmenter

Ken, when I first heard of those the story was they were targeting the lakes racing crowd. Never have seen or heard of a set in use, there must be some out there though. About a year or so ago the tooling for those was up for sale. Seems I remember the original guys were in No. Cal. so apparently the guy near you bought the tooling?

Bob, I have set #44, they really look nice. Some one, either this guy or some one else spent some time on them.
Ken

Nitrowarrior, Only 300 H.P.? Back in the fiftys 200 H.P. was considered hot and the 8CM fourdy shows above is one sweet flathead! Here are some pages from the Newhouse Special Handbook circa 1952 (the 14th Edition!). Over the years I penciled in the H.P. data for a high reving OHC Pinto 2000 and the tiny 1275 cc MG Midget engine but you can see that anything over 120 H.P. was semi-hot on the street for the time, 300 H.P. on the street would make fourdy king of the hill until about 1953!

Don Shillady
Retired Scientist/teen rodder