Sbc into my 40

[TJ]

The same guy who designed the SBC also designed and made the Ardun heads.

[hotrodA]

@bonanzarue

Sent you a PM

[Lawrie]

IF your flathead has a clean block and radiator, It will sit in traffic ,sit at 50-60 mph on the motorway, tow a caravan and not over heat, yesterday I drove my 34 3w up to our clubs Christmas party 250Klm round trip, air temp 35C, 60 mph on hi way no getting hot ,no worries.
Lawrie

[deuce_roadster]

Please, send the sbc, sbf, enthusiasts to the HAMB, that is what it is there for.

I have 2 Brand X sbc cars myself but would NEVER post any questions or pictures of them here.

[Tim Ayers]

Originally Posted by Lawrie

IF your flathead has a clean block and radiator, It will sit in traffic ,sit at 50-60 mph on the motorway, tow a caravan and not over heat, yesterday I drove my 34 3w up to our clubs Christmas party 250Klm round trip, air temp 35C, 60 mph on hi way no getting hot ,no worries.
Lawrie

Truth to this statement as well. The importance of starting with a surgically clean block can not be overstated. To this day, the amount of casting sand and crud I've cleaned out of blocks is truly surprising.

[tubman]

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Originally Posted by Tim Ayers

Truth to this statement as well. The importance of starting with a surgically clean block can not be overstated. To this day, the amount of casting sand and crud I've cleaned out of blocks is truly surprising.

There is one thing that I am curious about. I am exclusively an "8BA guy" and have been through 7 or 8 engines. Most of them had minimal debris in the water passages.

Am I just lucky, or did Ford get better at cleaning blocks in the later years. Is this a phenomena mainly seen in the earlier engines?

[Krylon32]

I've had 2 NOS 59L blocks I found locally still in their crates. They both had a considerable amount of foreign material (Sand & just Crud) in the block as said above. I've also had several 8BA block built and I was very specific to the machine shop about cleaning which they did, commenting they also had sand and crud in them.

[ThirstyThirty]

Originally Posted by DavidG

The subtitle of this forum is "Long live the flathead Ford". A stove-bolt sbC is totally inconsistent with those words.

thinking about it... I agree! however, decided not to mention anything about it