Sounds like a good plan Don! Good luck with it.

That's the route I would've gone.

Brad
Odenville, AL

1955 Fairlane Victoria
1956 Ford F100 (Restoration Underway....slowly )
2006 F150 SuperCrew

Thanks for the input! I am going to put the flat motor in the car with a T-5, I can always do a Y-block if I don't like it.



Thanks again

Cheers, Don

This months Hot Rod mag. has one with a V-12 Lincoln. Cool as hell. IMO there has never been a prettier motor than a decked out flat head & a nail head Buick. A really "souped up" flat head just sounds bad ass! I don't know why, maybe the Siamese exhaust ports. There is a blown flat head Ford 8N tractor that comes to Turkey Run & it sounds like a full blown race car. Then, on the other hand, back in the day (50s) a Y-block '32 wouldn't have been unusual. It would be different for sure. At any car show you go to you'll have the only one. Other than Moonshine Run in Dawsonville GA. it is unusual to see a '32 with anything but a SB Chevy. I expect a prepped flat head would probably be more expensive but either one would be a ton of fun....


Doing Fords for 45 years. '56 Customline Victoria

E.J. in Havana FL

Nailhead?

55f100

West Monroe,La.

That'll work.

Frank/Rebop

Bristol, In ( by Elkhart) 

Turbocharged Packard straight 8.


Lawrenceville, GA

Go for the Flatty.  Too many Y-Blocks out there now, it's getting to where we aren't unusual anymore.

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias

What's my name?





Though I do love flat ties also!

55 Vicky & customline

58 Rack Dump, 55 F350 yard truck, 57 F100

59 & 61 P 400's, 58 F100 custom cab, 69 F100, 79 F150, 82 F600 ramp truck, 90 mustang conv 7 up, 94 Mustang, Should I continue?

It seems that if a front mount similar to the old Hurst was made up for each engine with the mounting points the same to the frame the swap would be a quick afternoon. Set up both for the same transmission would make it even simpler. Of course it sounds easier when someone else is doing the work. Chuck

Y's guys rule!
Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Boy, what a decision to have. I like 'em both. Maybe the "setting up for both" idea would be a neat if workable.

I saw my first Dearborn Deuce a couple of weeks ago when a group of Florida rodders stopped here in Monroe on their way to the L.A. Roadster Show. What a beautiful car. This one had a Roush 427 crate engine.

Gerald Ingram aka "Gritsngumbo"
Monroe, LA
LITTLE RED: 64 Ford F100 Short Bed Styleside
BIG RED: 63 Ford F100 Long Bed Unibody
BBW RED: 61 Ford F100 BBW Long Bed Custom Cab Unibody
BIG “UN: 63 F250 Longbed Flareside
CREW CAB: 63 F100 "Stageway" Crew Cab w/Long "Wrong" Bed