reusing my 218

[makkelsay]

well a buddy came by today and made an awesome suggestion

make my running 218 into a motor for an air compressor

said to just block off 2 cylinders and use valves instead of sparkplugs and there ya go

anyone know if this is really possible?

[greg g]

UH What do you do about the gas hat will also be pushed into the compressor vessel??? You would need to somehow modify the intake manifold to only feed the running 4 cylinders and still allow air to enter the compressing cylinders.

[makkelsay]

yeah that too haha

i wonder if its really do-able?

if so id be pretty cool to get an old 60 gallon tank and build the ultimate compressor for sandblasting and sanding:D

[Jim Saraceno]

So first you'd have to make new intake and exhaust manifolds to isolate the two compressor cylinders THEN you's probably want to make a new camshaft to change the valves so you would compress air with every up stroke of those pistons.

Take pictures of if when your done.

[JIPJOBXX]

Why not just sell the engine and buy a compressor.

[makkelsay]

well if i sell the engine ill be buying brake parts...

finally got enough money to get the control arm parts...yay for return policies

[curtiswyant]

I've heard of this being done very often in the past with Ford flathead V8s. One head was normal while the other acted as the "compressing" side. I don't know how they modified the intake, if at all. Seems like a fun project

[GeorgeLeonard]

I know that some older cars came with these things as standard equipment for blowing up flat tires after they were repaired. The motorist would take the long hose and screw it into one of the spark plug holes. Start the engine and fill up the tire. I imagine it came in quite handy when flat tires were a common experience while motoring in the country. Beats pumping it up by hand.

[JIPJOBXX]

Hay I have a device out in shead that I can screw into one of the spark plug holes and use to fill a dead tire. Jon

Put then again I have a device that is called a bicyle pump and it works very well also.

[grey beard]

Back in 1947, Pop bought a new Ford 8N tractor. In the tool box there was an owners' manual, a screw driver, two wrenches with Ford script on them and a device to screw into a plug hole of the engine to pump up tires on the fly. Never used it, but we did pull the vacuum plug out of the intake manifold on that tractor and use vacuum from the engine intake to run the Surge milkers when the current would go off . . .

[wayfarer]

Can't recall the brand name right now, but there is a commercial/industrial compressor company that uses a small Ford v-8. Normal cylinder head on one bank, custom head on the other side, custom intake and it makes more air than most shops dream of using.

[Don Coatney]

[BloodyKnuckles]

Here's one for you;

It blew me away(...no pun intended)!

BloodyKnuckles