Flatheads never died out Made in France

Interesting, sounds like a good product. I suspect though that there are a good number of them in the US after market that are available, am I correct with that? This one sounds like it might be the best of the best if you believe what they say.
 
(quoted from post at 11:14:55 12/02/18) Wow!

You would need to be a REAL flathead lover to spring for $3,200.

Dean
It would cost more than that to rebuild and or repair the flathead in the 53 Mercury I bought last year. No aftermarket engines available in North America as far as I know.
 
Since I can't edit my post I will add that I'm wrong, the block is obviously available in California at So-Cal speed. (But made in France). That is the older, pre 48 flathead too. Not the 8ba that was the last of the line in Fords
 
I don't know what the difference was back in the early sixties the locals wanted a Canadian block flathead to use in some classes of drag racing.
 
(quoted from post at 12:51:27 12/02/18) I don't know what the difference was back in the early sixties the locals wanted a Canadian block flathead to use in some classes of drag racing.
I have never heard there was any difference in flatheads, be they from Canada or U.S. Although our Ford vehicles were assembled in Windsor, Ontario,I would bet the engines all came from somewhere in the U.S.
 
(quoted from post at 14:39:51 12/02/18) Brand new French block for a new Ford flathead.
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They died out in the 1980's when the French military retired the 4x4 trucks that were using the flathead.
The ones you see for sale as French blocks are military surplus sold off in 1980 something. Several thousand of them.
 
Dean: The flatheads were made by Simca if I remember correctly. They improved on the metals, had smoother interiors and thicker deposits where needed. $3200. is cheap compared to what goes into them in parts. I had close to $10K in my warmed up Flathead. I heard it run one time , sweet, before it and the 39 Ford coupe burned up in the builders garage. Gary
 
Sparking my curiosity, would you share the reasoning and ID particulars between preferences for either block?

While we are discussing Windsor Canadian Ford engines how about OHV V8s and Cleveland, Ohio Ford engines of the sort. What's the big deal besides one is a big block isn't it?
 
(quoted from post at 14:31:18 12/03/18) Sparking my curiosity, would you share the reasoning and ID particulars between preferences for either block?

While we are discussing Windsor Canadian Ford engines how about OHV V8s and Cleveland, Ohio Ford engines of the sort. What's the big deal besides one is a big block isn't it?

Both the Windsor and the Cleveland are small blocks. The big deal with the Cleveland is the heads. They feature large valves and ports and breath like a big block. The Cleveland was developed right at the end of the horsepower race era, just before the gas shortages of 1973. As we all remember, performance engines were killed off for many years by the gas shortages. Ford decided to recoup some of their investment in the Cleveland engine by modifying the block to use the big block bellhousing, lowered the compression, put smaller valves in the heads, and called it the 351M and 400M. Those are still small blocks too, but with the (M)odified bellhousing bolt pattern.
 

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