Oh, for shame! We have somehow manged to desecrate 4-26 day, which I have been delighting in and celebrating since midnight...
Hemi vs Wedge
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I was asked if I had taken a BRIGGS apart before..... LOL
A wedge block would be a pain for piston install....lol. But I am sure that made an adapter for this sole purpose..
RustyRatRod
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Just think, tomorrow is 427 day. I just have to make up my mind which one. I think I'm goin for this.
For you it would of course be a 427 Ferd…. but this isn't the hellaphant day thread.. LOL
Ford flathead engines and a Briggs & Stratton lawn mower engines are what is called an L head engine. Not a Hemi not a wedge it's an L head.
RustyRatRod
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That's true, but the combustion chamber is still a wedge design. The L head engine simply means that the engine has pistons and valves arranged in rows in the block. Look at this picture of a Briggs head. Yes, it's an L (flat head) but it IS a wedge combustion chamber. The definition of a wedge chamber is where one side of the chamber is deeper than the other in such a way that the piston makes the mixture move toward the spark plug for a more complete burn. Clearly this Briggs head meets that description.
correct. L heads soon went to Y blocks
My old '54 Ford crestline ….. first year of the overhead valve in the Ferd….. 239 V8
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But, the shim has a taper (thicker on one end than the other), which makes it the shape of a ....wait for it.......WEDGE!!that would be more of a shim than a wedge
Hello! Have any pics to share of that one? I have heard that 50 and 51 were the only production years of the Crestline. I wouldn't normally ask but my dad is a fan of those and the meteor Canadian Ford cars.correct. L heads soon went to Y blocks
My old '54 Ford crestline ….. first year of the overhead valve in the Ferd….. 239 V8
Flathead, of any type. How are you going to make it breathe any better? With overhead valve design, of course! Some things are just better left in the past where they belong... Being it is 4-26 day and the Hellephant is in the room, how about the best of both worlds? The Gen 3 bathtub chambers with the quench pads on each side and spark plugs on each side of the chamber. If it wasn't a good design, Stage V wouldn't waste their time making twin plug bathtub chambers an option for the maximum flow Millennium heads.
Dartfreak75
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I had a murray one that the deck went bad and we took it off. Being a gear head teenager I swap the pulleys front to back. That thing would fly I bet it would go at least 30mph and like you said it would ride a wheelie if you dropped the clutch.tell ya another trick of mine besides the "wire brush on a drill valve job",.. replace the cast iron fly wheel on the riding mower with an aluminum fly wheel from a lawn mower. Yes sir, them 4 hp would act like 7 hp. Rip the snot out of your fingers trying to start it and it would back fire, but I could pull a wheelie so high you thought you were going to flip backwards....
RustyRatRod
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I don't know man. Tell that to a bunch of cane wielding flathead lovers and see if you make it out alive. LOL Flatheads have a really loyal following.......and I have to admit, I would love to build one to go in "something" one day. But the one I want to do is the Flathead V12 Lincoln engine.
RustyRatRod
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What's not to love?
straightlinespeed
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Ok forgive my ignorance, this post intrigued me as well. Is there a difference in the block for example a 426 wedge vs a 426 hemi? Or is the block the same and its just a simple head change?
Similar but Completely Different
Dartfreak75
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I was always under the impression that Tom Hoover and his team used 413 wedges blocks to develop the 426 hemi and thru the design process ended up with hemi blocks. I may be wrong I'm gonna go Google it now lol
Dartfreak75
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That Ford sohc "cammer" engine was pretty amazing!
Hemi's had more head bolts. I don't know about wedge blocks.
Charlie Malyuke built a 383 with Hemi heads back in the early Pro Stock days. See the extra bolt hole bosses?
Almost... but Wedgie to be correct
Yep, but can't post till I get home
They have the same # of bolts Wedge vs Hemi only the hemi has studs in the top because the intake ports are in the way.
Close race for me on the 427. While the Cammer is outright amazing in the simplicity of its engineering and execution of design for a factory built experimental engine of that level, there is something about the brutally raw "bigger hammer" design of the R code tunnel port wedge with the single plane dual four intake that really does it for me.
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