Bill, the equipment ( and speed ) you mentioned from back then was
so accurate . When I got out of the Army back in 1960, one of my friends
had recently installed a .030" over 3 3/ 8" X 4 1/8" 59AB motor in his
very sharp channeled '33 five window coupe ( Ford, of course ! ) and it
had all the goodies you listed, only the cam was a Potvin Eliminator .....
which he had been advised was too radical for street use .
That combo of bore, stroker crank, cam and the other goodies
added up to the strongest running flathead that I ever saw that wasn' t
in a drag strip only terror !!! I wish that any of my flatheads had run
as well, but they didn' t have enough of the right stuff in them, and a
nail head Buick in a '39 coupe made me a believer, the hard way,
that overheads were here to stay ! I chose the small block Chev route,
like so many others, but that supposed " overly cammed " flatmotor of
his was such a fine running and reliable powerplant that I will never
forget the rides we had in it !
Even had the old pennies in the heat risers trick ......
Bruce
PS : This was the third life for this 24 studder ......in its second life
it tore up our local stock car oval and grabbed a bunch of checkers
for its owner / builder, who I last saw at a car cruise a few years ago
....... looking real classy in his seventies, with his white hair and a
fine looking lady from the same era beside him in his new Vette !!!
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