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[Shannen Durphey]

Raymond C Drouillard wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 22:21:36 -0400 (EDT) William T Wilson
> <fluffy at snurgle.org> writes:
> >On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, H Villemure wrote:
> >
> >> 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?
> >
> >Yeah.. the heads are flat.  ;)  Nothing in them but the plugs.
> >
> >During the early part of the century up through the 50's, Ford made
> >flathead V8s which were extremely good engines and used in a wide
> variety
> >of their cars and a number of early street rods.  Not only Ford used
> >flathead engines though; I've got one in a '55 Jeep, which is an inline
> >6-cylinder.
> 
> I believe that they were used with the inline 4 cylinder Jeep engines,
> also.
> 
Packard straight eight was flathead, I think the 6 cyl Jeep engine
began life as a Willys Hercules 6, and I think Dodge made a flathead 6
cyl also.  Then there's the 348/409 Chebby which has valves in head
but no combustion cchamber cast in.
Shannen