flathead engine

One example of this is all modern side valve or flathead engines.

The problem with a flathead engine is its thermal efficiency, which we'll discuss next.

He plans to swap the Ford's flathead engine for a more powerful motor.

Reading Standards is best known as the first American motorcycle company to offer a flathead engine.

This model was similar to other prewar Indians and featured a 74-cubic-inch flathead engine.

They are powered by single cylinder flathead engines and run on methanol.

He became known for hopping up little Fords with flathead engines so the police could not catch them.

It was the last flathead engine to be used in a domestic U.S. car.

The valve-in-block flathead engine was quite compact, allowing a low hood.

Ford flatheads are still hot rodded today, with a special land speed record class for flathead engines.

The standard flathead engines of that day were not very efficient and designers tried to improve engine performance by using multiple valves.

The Hurricane was based on the earlier Go-Devil flathead engine.

It featured only four main bearings, unlike the 7-main-bearing 234 flathead engine it replaced.

Moskvitch 402 shared the same 4-cylinder flathead engine as its predecessors, however, whose construction dated back in the late 1930s of German engineering.

The designs were similar, with four-cylinder flathead engines, three-speed transmissions and open, four-seat bodies.

However, this gives poor gas flows within the cylinder head as well as heat problems and fell out of favor for automobile use, see flathead engine.

Flathead engine, standard transmission."

The typical flathead engine has its valves adjacent, but the "T-head" variant acts as a "cross-flow" head.

The straight six was modernized with an overhead-valve cylinder head for higher-grade models, but the base cars continued with the flathead engine.

Flatty - flathead engine (usually refers to a Ford; when specified, the Mercury-built model)

In his desire to increase the performance, he joined with Tommy Thickstun to design a new intake manifold for the roadster's flathead engine.

The Buick straight-8 engine was an overhead valve design, while the Oldsmobile and Pontiac straight-8s were flathead engines.

The resulting Ford Flathead engine continued in production until the early 1950s; a derivative design was used in French military vehicles into the 1990s.

In a flathead engine, the valves are in the block, rather than in the head, and they open in a chamber beside the piston.

After WWII, Packard continued with their successful straight-eight-cylinder flathead engines.