Ford flathead V8 engine | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 07/07/2019

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00:01:44 1 Development and production overview
00:04:38 2 Components
00:04:47 2.1 Crankshaft
00:06:49 2.2 Block
00:10:02 2.3 Bearings
00:10:44 2.4 Camshaft and timing
00:11:25 2.5 Lubrication
00:12:08 2.6 Exhaust
00:13:55 2.7 Internal fuel flow
00:14:46 2.8 Overhead-valve kits
00:15:35 3 Hot-rodding applications
00:17:17 3.1 Modern performance flatheads
00:17:54 4 Tractor conversions
00:19:05 5 Version types
00:19:17 5.1 221
00:22:45 5.2 239
00:26:52 5.3 136
00:28:42 5.4 255
00:30:31 5.5 337
00:31:57 6 See also



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The Ford flathead V8 (often called simply the Ford flathead, flathead Ford, or flatty when the context is implicit, such as in hot-rodding) is a V8 engine of the valve-in-block type designed by the Ford Motor Company and built by Ford and various licensees. During the engine's first decade of production, when overhead-valve engines were rare, it was usually known simply as the Ford V‑8, and the first car model in which it was installed, the Model 18, was (and still is) often called simply the "Ford V‑8", after its new engine. Although the V8 configuration was not new when the Ford V8 was introduced in 1932, the latter was a market first in the respect that it made an 8-cylinder affordable and a V engine affordable to the emerging mass market consumer for the first time. It was the first independently designed and built V8 engine produced by Ford for mass production, and it ranks as one of the company's most important developments. A fascination with ever-more-powerful engines was perhaps the most salient aspect of the American car and truck market for a half century, from 1923 until 1973. The engine was intended to be used for big passenger cars and trucks; it was installed in such (with minor, incremental changes) until 1953, making the engine's 21-year production run for the U.S. consumer market longer than the 19-year run of the Ford Model T engine for that market. The engine was on Ward's list of the 10 best engines of the 20th century. It was a staple of hot rodders in the 1950s, and it remains famous in the classic car hobbies even today, despite the huge variety of other popular V8s that followed.