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[Peter D. Hipson]

Your typical (cheap, non-ohv) 4-stroke lawnmower engine is a flat head--the
head has nothing but holes for plugs, no valves. The valves are mounted in
the block instead. 

At 02:24 PM 4/30/99 -0400, you wrote:
>Robert,
>
>I am more of an ignoramus than most on this list- just a fresh
>mechanical engineering graduate. Could you detail what a *flathead*
>motor design consists of?
>
>Thanks!

Thanks, 
        Peter Hipson (founder, NEHOG)
        1995 White NA Hummer Wagon