Book description
How to rebuild all Ford or Mercury V8 flatheads for stock or high
horsepower. Down-to-earth facts help you select components like an
expert. Everything you must know about boring, stroking, porting &
relieving, balancing. Camshaft selections available today. Pistons &
crankshafts--which are best and why. Aftermarket cylinder heads and
manifolds. Headers, ignitions, airflow secrets, cooling know-how. How to
install late-model flatheads into early chassis. Author Frank Oddo was
an avid street rodder known for his fine 1940 Ford coupe street rod
(originally flathead-powered). He wrote for Street Rodder Magazine for
25 years, plus he wrote articles for Custom Rodder, Rod & Custom,
Hot Rod, Trucking, Classic Trucking, and Ford Times. Starting drag
racing (with a flathead Ford) in the mid-50s, he subsequently became a
dry-lakes and Bonneville racer. At Bonneville he ran 223 mph in his
belly-tank lakester and 208 at El Mirage dry lake. He was a member of
the Early Ford V-8 Club and a charter member of the 40s Limited
street-rod club. Frank was also a member of the Rod Riders Racing Team,
a club affiliated with the Southern California Timing Association.
