You know, even though the Ford Flathead story is an old one ... water pumps in the head, motor mounts on front of the block, 21 stud heads, and water pumps in heads. From '33 to early '36 they ...

It's been over 50 years since the last Ford flathead V-8 was ... used a distributor that mounts flush to the front cover with a horizontal shaft on the front of the engine, and had insert-style ...

Henry Ford liked his engines to warm up quickly in the Michigan winters, but it was not a plus in hot weather. Steadily improved through 1953, with millions produced, the flathead achieved ...

So the engine was compromised to meet mad old Ford's design ideals, but it was still an amazingly simple engine, particularly with that flathead layout of valves next to the cylinder with a flat ...

That distinction actually belongs to the Cadillac L-Head V8 which was first produced on a large scale in 1914 (via Engine Builder Mag). The Ford Flathead was not produced until 1932. The "Flathead ...

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 most common Ford 385-series big-block conversion out ... There are at least two generations of Crites 385-series big-block engine mount kits, which makes this conversion tricky because engine ...

The Ford Flathead V8 wasn't the first V8, but when it debuted in the 1932 Model 18, it brought this brilliant engine configuration to the American masses. With a simple design featuring a flat ...

The party will also honor the famous Ford Flathead engine. When it debuted, the Deuce cost just $500 and was considered pretty revolutionary. Since then, as Ford puts it, they have been "modified ...

Flathead V8 engines were the first mass-produced V8 engines sold in production cars, with Ford’s first example dating back to 1932. The flathead design is very simple; as the name implies, the ...

While the Small Block Chevy may be the most tunable and the Chrysler HEMI the most powerful, Ford’s Flathead V8 engine has been around for nearly a century and is the grandfather of every V8 ...