Hello everyone, I have loved flatheads since that day I learned what they were. I am starting driving lessons this summer and I am interested in building a flathead for a soon to be purchased Ford from the flathead era. I know what I want to do and I don't want to say money is no oblect, but I am 95 percent sure I can pay for everything. Here are my plans: get 239 Merc. with 100hp, bore and stroke to 302, fill with high quality rods and pistons, pretty wild cam one that is just bearable ony becuase you know it makes gobs of power, alluminum heads modified for around 10:1 compression, offenhauser 3x2 manifold and holley 94's or 97's, some headers not sure yet, and thats about it. Now here are some questions what should i do about raising compression on the offy or edelbrock heads, and can methanol run through those carbs. I am going to make a race trim with 12:1 heads and methanol, what kind of mixture is optimal. also i heard peopel using merc. cranks to stroke the flatheads how can i do this. also how much overbore should i do for 302 i ws thinking 60 thousandths over. i have used the estimated power equation and came up with an average of about 300 hp in street trim and 340 in race trim. well i need lots of info but i am very enthusiastic and cant wait to start