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To: Banjoguy

It is a flat head V8 Ford engine. Called a flat head because it doesn’t have overhead valves, the valves are in the engine block. Hence the name flat head, applied to all engines of the genre regardless of how many cylinders they had. Note the spark plugs are in the head, no rocker arms, no valves, no push rods are in the head.


55 posted on 03/23/2010 2:25:29 PM PDT by calex59
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To: calex59

Thank you for the automotive lesson!


56 posted on 03/23/2010 2:35:46 PM PDT by Banjoguy (Barack H. Obama and the Democrats are at war with the American people.)
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To: calex59

So that would be the “Little Deuce Coupe with the flathead mill?”


62 posted on 03/23/2010 7:18:12 PM PDT by oprahstheantichrist (The MSM is a demonic stronghold, PLEASE pray accordingly - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)
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