Ford Flat Head V8 Engine

[surferaroulet]

jsuis fan de ces bruit..je suis fait pour avoir une harley ;)

[skiDOOman484]

sounds exactly like a sea ray with thru hull exhaust. love them 302's



[fidalgo99]

GRANDPA ?!

[cfazekas0441]

dont fuck with this tractor

[schmidt60410]

It looks like a Funk conversion to me. Many were done at the Ford dealers. An easy way to tell a Funk conversion is it used a heavy cast iron oil pan that was a supporting member. Other conversions used external frame rails to support the engine.

[MrCraig1930]

Ford did this conversion. I was around when this happened. Young people need to listen to those that were around when this happened.

[pv2xeek]

@MrCraig1930 No they didn't. You are mistaken. The Funk brothers would take factory tractors and convert them to inline 6s and V8s and resell them. "Young people" don't need to listen to you just because you are older. Also, just because you are older doesn't mean you are smarter.

[kickass4510]

@pv2xeek in many cases being older means yo get dumber, but i cant say much cause we will all get there someday

[canonet17]

@richardcwood1 I think that was a Funk Bros. conversion as thet also made a Ford OHV 6 conversion too in the late 40s, early 50s.

[rottysaurus]

Now thats how a tractor should sound!!!!

[pdutube]

That definitely doesn't sound like my grandfather's 9N!

[Tcosp]

Superb, gorgeous. hmm in USA everything is V, chocholate, soup, cars, trees.. i'm jesting of course.

[HawaiianMachinist]

Beautiful setup...

[TheFordman8868]

i got a 1952 ford 8n that has the 4banger in it and it runns like brand knew.

[scanner73]

What a noise! I had a V8 pilot in the early 50s, it ran so smoothly I sometimes thought it had stalled at traffic lights. Different silencer I guess.

[maxgamez]

i didn't even know they made v8 flat heads lol, i know now lol

[whb1965]

funk ford  nice

[mooseflier]

suck it

[born2soon]

Okay. I remember my grandfather's 1949 Ford 8N. Sometimes it had sigle rib front tires and sometimes it had 3 ribbed tires. Somebody explain to this city slcker what's the purpose of one or the other?

[JoeldeLawton]

Not bad for an old Ford but I think one of the cylinders is missing spark

[genexrollins]

that old John Deere is running in the not too distant back ground, thats the odd firing that you are hearing.

[tom70bronco]

some early flat heads had duel points and if one set is not set right it sounds like its out of time--nice job--

[yetisportisme]

Built when people used to be allowed to enjoy thier working vehicles and take great pride in modifying them, before all this health and safety bullshit, it sounds great.

Ford 302 (best engine ever IMHO, got one in a scimitar) in an old ford tractor sounds like a great idea to me, and then do some real work with it like these old boys did with thier mods.... cool.

[genexrollins]

@ yetisportisme you are having a (flathead exhaust ) pipe dream! NO serious farmer was putting a flatty V8 in his "working" tractor. It would only be a waste of money! A Flatty V8 would not do anymore work in this tractor than the original engine. it would only consume/ waste 3 times as much fuel. My grandad used these tractors extensively. He dumped the flatty 4s as soon as OHV came out as OHV was much better on fuel.

[KapteinOpel]

@genexrollins Of course it can do more work, depending on what youre using it for.

[genexrollins]

@KapteinOpel you obviously dont know much about farming or these tractors.

U think that flatV8 instantly gives the tractor more capabillity. It doesn't. When the OHV 4 came out it was enough more powerful that special oversize tires were needed to really make use that added power. This frame size was maxed out at that point. You can only go so fast on row crops anyway, you are supposed to leave a furrow, not a wake Thats why tractors get bigger (plows get wider) much more than faster!

[KapteinOpel]

@genexrollins The Ferguson principle is neatly thought out.. so much weight here and there, so big tires and a sufficient, economical engine. In reality a piece of art. If you used this V8 conversion for plowing you would only waste gas. But if its used in a mine for getting a heavy trailer up a hill fast it will clearly do more work. Or in heavy forestry pulling logs with halftracks.

[genexrollins]

@KapteinOpel "If you used this V8 conversion for plowing you would only waste gas."

Thank You.

[KapteinOpel]

@genexrollins Ok, so you dont use it for plowing. But the extra power may come in handy for certain other applications, like I said.

[dmellow45]

he should put some plugs in those ex pipes, make it a flame throwing tractor

[hoogliamo]

nice job sounds great!

[tbirdpimp07]

wonder if i can put my 302 roller engine on a old ford tractor hrmmz

[kennethrobinson123]

The timing is off. to slow. Can't you hear it

[dmellow45]

what that put put put ptu put sound? it sounds kinda weak at the end like its gonna stall

[genexrollins]

@dmellow45 THAT put put put sound is the JD running in the back ground!

[gunny556fly]

sounds nice but nothing like that 4 cilinder.

[papabugs71]

The kits were built by Funk Aircraft Company of Coffeyville, Kansas.

[titsmcgee34]

only downsides to flathead bad fule econ. and far less power for the engine size

[AlchemistHawk]

yea, their kinda a show engine really. they sound freak'in awesome!

[AirsoftReviewChannel]

look at allis g in the back

[JAROSLAVAGINA]

haha that's so weird... never expected a tractor to sound like that... of course i'm to used to the inline 4's and 6's.

[gta4forps3king]

thar the flat head v8 from a f1

[Southernpride005]

thats fuckin cool!

id give my left nut for that tractor...

[xbigxredx2009]

he should rev it and dump the clutch! that would be funny. did some tractors comes with v8s? or was it like a common swap?

[teeter1939]

Ford tractors never came with a V-8, they always had an inline 4 engine. There is a conversion called a "Funk Conversion Kit" that is incredibly rare, most V-8 conversions are home brewed.

[xbigxredx2009]

interersting. whats the point of the swap? did some farmers really need all that power?

[teeter1939]

Yes, a bone stock 8N will pull a 2-bottom plow, and has around 35-40 hp. Swapping in a flathead V8 doubled the hp to 96 (built stock for the era) and allowed it to pull a 3-bottom plow. Plus the V8 had more torque than the 4, and that makes a world of difference.

[logansGT]

Maybe the point was simply that the flathead sounds sweet !

[bill11012]

about 200 came with them.

[OzzInter]

@bill11012

FUNK conversion of Ford tractor.

A couple of them made it to Australia.

[krankiev]

I've seen one with a flathead V-8 on it before they are awesome