Legend has it, Mr. Ford hated Chevrolet, so he refused to have anything to do with six-cylinder ... overhead-valve engines. Using a flow bench to optimize and reshape the flathead’s narrow ...

Q: Hi, Greg, I have two questions. Did Chevy ever have a flathead six-cylinder engine for their cars or trucks, and second, did the Ford Pinto ever have a model with an opening trunk instead of a ...

On average, H&H ships between 80 and 100 flathead crate engines ... Ford valves measure 1.50 inches (I and E). For extra flow potential, Mike steps up to Manley stainless steel intake valves with ...

I’ve written articles about 3109 junkyard vehicles, more or less, since I began working for automotive publications in 2007, ...

Inline engines ... six introduced in the '60 Falcon. The 144 is a lightweight, gray-wall iron powerplant with six 3.5-inch cylinder bores and a 2.50-inch stroke along a four-main-bearing ...

The Ford Flathead was not produced until 1932. The "Flathead" descriptor comes from the flat cylinder heads on each bank of the engine because not every name has to have an exciting story attached.

Ford's famed flathead V-8 was revolutionary when the automaker put the engine into production in 1932. It brought the V-8 to the mass market and ready power to hot rodders for decades to come.

the flathead Ford underwent three major evolutionary changes. The first design, '32-through-early-'38 engines had only 21 cylinder-head studs and until mid-1936 even used poured Babbitt main bearings.

The Ford Flathead V8 was the first mass-market V8 and the starting point for uniquely American performance. What's interesting about it is exactly what made it possible—simple and cheap to build ...