Starting the Flathead

[cj15941]

@DaDuttFire I sure as hell won't ever be caught driving some little import plastic pos. I'm riding in my moms 02 grand-am rift now and feel like a stray pebble could come through and take me out

[cj15941]

Man I love these old engines!! I'm 17 and really wanna build a "rat rod" as my daily driver. I have a 81 Bronco now but id rather have something old and rusty and powered by a flatty or an old Blue Flame Six. All my friends think I'm retarded for not wanting a new car. Hell, if my mom offered me a new car I'd tell her no lol. Btw, looked like you might have had a front main seal leak?

[DaDuttFire]

@cj15941 dont ever take a new car their not worth it i have a 1971 VW super beetle



[fencer94bro]

are those 32 frame rails next to it

[ezzzstang1]

I am sorry for the negative but you might want to take the fan off,you don't need it due to the lack of radiator in front of it...lol

[Renatubie]

Sweet machine. I am intrigued to ride a flat head powered vehicle. Still, that's scary right there...

[mikeys316]

Dont take this wrong bro and i am not dissing you but either have balls of steel or lack common sense for starting that thing using a tire for a frame and bricks for motor mounts!  U R 1 gutsy dude

[43kingfan]

Cool video. Like the redneck rigging!

[mav9000]

Ford Flatheads run hot because the exhaust gases flow past the cylinders inside the cast block. When the original 21 stud head engines came out, it was important to have a cooling system in good condition (radiator) or you could crack a block pretty easily.

[FormulaDGoSpeedGo]

I am an import guy BUT HELL! I REALLY want one of those :) lol

[shartne]

what if you rev it up and it torques of the bricks and the fan chops your hand off that would be tragic. cool motor and your a brave man but not too careful.

[fluxu8]

@shartne

It did fly around the room like a cartoon motor a few times, but I luckily had a string tied to the back so it didn't get out of the garage. I forgot to tape that.

[berettasp]

@fluxu8 Lol

[68knative]

@shartne

He's a real man! Let him do it his way, it's cool!

[shartne]

@68knative K

[82thetots]

@shartne check out my buick 430, it almost rolled off a couple of times



[McmullenEJ]

@shartne he is one with the flathead :)

[Promoney22]

I agree, i love that sound.

[ntrains]

man i love the flatheads got two myself, but aint that a little hard on the exhaust valves. great vid

[Xelmon]

Biittchiiiinnnn'!

Love that sound! And from what I know they don't get bad mileage either... Unless you monkey with them a lot.

[callmenort]

This is what flatheads love to do> overheat,refuse to start because the bendix drive is screwed, and blow pistons off the rod . it was born in em

[sunshineapathy]

digg it.

[DalnamikDesigns]

NICE engine mounts lol

[bomfy]

Nice engine stand man. I have used a couple pieces of notched 4x6 and some cinder blocks and I thought that was a hillbilly contraption. You sir are pro.

[BYCURE213]

as paul rodriguez said in latin kings of comedy "home depot? shit what for? use duck take and brick, thebrick holds it up, thetape holds it in" lol so latinos use tape, anglos use a tire, i wonder what asians and african americans use? lol... btw, this wasnt meant to be a racist joke, its just a joke since it reminded me of that... plus im Xicano lol... oh and i absolutely love the Flat head, i envy you for having one lol

[Kilen81]

ahh love it :D

[mrfarmerjimbob]

That's what the Flattie has--torque! He obviously wasn't revving it very hard BECAUSE it was on such a precarious stand.

[Reedynn]

5 stars man!

[VinnyMartello]

yeah man. Thats a real V8. You know what? I bet nobody has every had a flathead corvette. That would make for a weird hot rod wouldnt ya think? I kind have a plan for that a number of years down the road...

[LeviMan2001]

@VinnyMartello A flathead corvette? Why? I mean, that's a downgrade power wise.

[VinnyMartello]

Because its something that nobody has ever done before

[Uunster]

@VinnyMartello yeah like the Studebaker El Camino 

[VinnyMartello]

@Uunster

LOL

[VinnyMartello]

That thing sounds like a choir of angels...

[217zenki]

it looks like a unicorn.

[danielwetpaint]

By crackers I had an old chevy V8 that when you reved it like that it'd spin over on the air cleaner.

[kneejerk]

if it fell it would spin and cripple you fool...

[tagaEskinita]

being an ancient engine, it doesnt have enough torque to self spin anyway

[StillenGtr17]

cool dude, love how ya got it on bricks

[tdblues]

heyo! thats old school man

and i'm not just talking about the engine itself... Goodjob peace.

[dirtydogvideo]

hey grimfucker...yall gots 2 B N idiot!..cant U C that although the theory is simple...it aint worth nothin! your gonna kneed at least 6 or 7 tires, and another 6 or 8 bricks! by the time the engine squishes the tires down 2 bout 4'...then stand a couple more bricks up..so's U can have er up ware U can work on it!....otherwise...gut 2 sit down 2 work on er!..lol!

[M44resto]

It might be hard to call someone an idiot when almost the only word you spelled correctly WAS the word 'idiot'. Normally I wouldn't bother, but that was just awful..

[doubletap85]

Either you legitimately spell like a total retard, or you put the effort in to misspell damn near every single word in your reply. Either way, terrible shit. Another thumbs down.

[dirtydogvideo]

whatyall gonna do wit dat?...gonna put a set of double wings on er....and fly er round!..lol! nice engine!

[playa1313]

wow, the stands kind of scare me lol

[amoswt]

good heavens a SCHLITZ man!!

[30GB]

nice "brick Stand"

[D342DIESEL]

cam it!! then it will sound great.

[Valtomotive]

sweet sound good condition

[powersliding]

cool

[Chevypower265]

I love old flatheads!

[NissanTy]

thats awesome seeing these old engines running, no they aint that powerful but its just cool to see a flathead running and used in hot rods

[grimfucker]

where did you get the plans to build that engine test stand??

i just recently rebuilt my motor and want to build a test stand for myself.

[amoswt]

My god man! two bricks and an old tire I thought I was the king of the cobble? You take the cake!

[docwatson1938]

You dumb fuck? Know you US people know why Emergency departments are so full, its the amount of idiots doing stupid shit like this!

[LashoutUK]

What a lovely smooth mill

[MetalHeadEv]

You're game standing that close to it with that 'engine stand', sounds damn nice though!

[kkojeep]

it sounds realy nice, pero limado esta apollado sobre 2 ladrillos!

[Volga2402]

Dnt start up engine without water!

[reptobbe]

ford flatheads rock the world of engines. They look great and the they sound even greater.

[rpeek]

That is such a sweet sound....

[gooseknack]

Indeed!

[Wholelotofshakingoin]

Ever had any problems keeping the sucker cool.

[Wholelotofshakingoin]

I'm told the flathead is a bitch to keep cool is this true.

[fluxu8]

They do have a history of being hot running motors. Usually because people bored them out to the largest diameter they could, making the walls thin. Also, after 50 years of water and coolant in the block, the water passages get smaller. But they were not that way when new. That was the V8 that Ford offered from 32 - 1953. They wouldn't have stuck with it for 21 years if they were junk.

[justforever96]

@fluxu8 Well, that makes the problem worse...fact is, having the exhaust ports pump hot gasses through the block to the manifold tended to soak a lot of heat into the block itself. Go figure. IF the cooling system runs as intended, it can keep things in check, but even a small loss in coolant flow can make things hot, especially if the engine is hopped up at all. But I don't care...I figure the Flathead Ford is one of histories Great Engines, with the air-cooled VW and Chevy Smallblock.

[Robkat3751]

But it was also that the exhaust was routed through the block. Cadillac solved this by having the exhaust manifold at the top near the valves.

[hyperutetic]

yeah old guys told me thats why they called them pressure cookers

[Goldenthrush]

It's Alive!! XD Sa-Weet!

[UnderTheThumb]

Nice,great to hear and see another old Ford being re-stored.

[genkahron]

thats pure mechanical engineering right there :D

no fancy electrics

[czarwright]

Sweet

[moefuzzz]

Nice motor mounts!!!!!

sounds really good, hope it works out well in your hotrod...

moefuzz