OT what flathead/head is it?

[Frank Elder]

Overhead valves?

[austinsailor]

Looks similar to ed edgerton's hemi conversion for a Chrysler flathead 6.

Gene G.

[james curl]

Could be an early 50s Willys F head.

[Greenbomb]

Wasn't the "F"-head a 4 cylinder?

[james curl]

I think they n\made a 6 cylinder also for the Aero Sedans.

[TodFitch]

Wasn't the "F"-head a 4 cylinder?

One valve in the block, the other above it in the head.

[55 Fargo]

Edgy custom cast, F head conversion for a Chrysler flat head 6 cyl...........

[Andydodge]

Yep, thats Earl Edgertons conversion..........I win lotto and I'll buy meself a few of them heads........yum...........now if only I could win lotto...........andyd

[55 Fargo]

Yep, thats Earl Edgertons conversion..........I win lotto and I'll buy meself a few of them heads........yum...........now if only I could win lotto...........andyd

Order today for $6000.00 US............

[greg g]

suposidly 2 were built.

[austinsailor]

Yep, thats Earl Edgertons conversion..........I win lotto and I'll buy meself a few of them heads........yum...........now if only I could win lotto...........andyd

Look back to the first comment, I think I was close enough!

I re-read your post - you mean if you win the lotto you'll buy one. I first read it as "I won, I get one".

Ok, read twice, comment once, right?

Edited March 5, 2010 by austinsailor

[Andydodge]

If I win lotto, then I'll become Earl's best customer........to paraphase a famous saying........." A Finned Head on every Mopar 6 and an Overdrive Gearbox behind them all!".........this is my pledge to you, fellow Mopar Maniacs...........lol........gunna go take me meds now......lol........andyd

[Dave Bohn]

Hot Rod Magazine had an article with that F-Head conversion - said it would be around $6,000 without the carbs. My concern is, with the carbs on the drivers side, how would you ever access or time the distributor? It's an impressive looking set up though.

[David Strieb]

Dave, any idea what issue of hot rod that was in? I always thought that converting to an mopar L head 6 to a F head configuration would be unique and worthwhile modification. My dad's 1919 essex had a 4cly F head engine, he claimed he could outrun anything on the road !!!!

[Dave Bohn]

Hot Rod Delux - Nov 2009. It has a great article on Edgy. I can't take credit for spotting it - someone here mentioned it a post in Dec or so. I was able to find a copy still on the newstand. There was also another magazine mentioned at that time but I could not find a copy.

[Tim Keith]

$6,000 is probably about right for low production numbers, lots of

craftsman time. Maybe with CNC mills a few could be built for 1/3

that much. A big chunk of alloy billet that size isn't so cheap either.

The Toyota 7MGE head is a good fit on a 218, as far as bore spacing

it is very close. The Toyota has a 3.27 inch bore, but the block is

not siamezed. The bolt pattern is off, but otherwise looked pretty

close when I measured one in a junk yard.

[Don Coatney]

I am guilty of not reading everything about this head but my question is? Is this a cross flow 12 port head?

[Andydodge]

Don, yes and no......its a crossflow in the sense that the intake is on the US Drivers side into the cylinder head thru the new overhead valvetrain but the exhaust is still thru the standard location side valves in the block on the US passenger side, a crossflow but not as most are known........I'd still consider donating a gonad for the setup........gotta make use of them somehow........lol......andy(sqeaky voice)d

[Don Coatney]

Don, yes and no......its a crossflow in the sense that the intake is on the US Drivers side into the cylinder head thru the new overhead valvetrain but the exhaust is still thru the standard location side valves in the block on the US passenger side, a crossflow but not as most are known........I'd still consider donating a gonad for the setup........gotta make use of them somehow........lol......andy(sqeaky voice)d

So that makes it a cross flow 9 port head?

No gonad donation required for an answer:D Usefulness is your choice:eek:

[moose]

So that makes it a cross flow 9 port head?

I'd say it's a 12 port cross flow head. It's got 6 intake ports in the head, and would use the 6 exhaust ports in the block. But then there's three more intake in the block, so maybe 15?

BTW I'd give both of Andy's gonads for that:D

[Tim Keith]

I think Phillips Performance must be out of business. At one time

I read that Phillips had a prototype of a pushrod hemi head for a

Mopar flathead block that was based on archieve photos of Chrysler

engineering projects in the 1940s. Chrysler never intended to build

a double rocker six, but mules based on the 251 L-head block were

built showing impressive performance. An OHC six head was also

evaluated.

Some factions in the company wanted Chrysler to maintain its

inline six focus, but the V8 engineers won the argument. A

250 inch hemi six would never have been considered for production,

but would been pretty impressive, with a torque curve stronger than

a similar sized V8 like the short lived 241 V8.

Edited March 6, 2010 by Tim Keith

[Young Ed]

[Frank Elder]

That's freakin' beautiful!!!!!

[greg g]

Must have used a 25 inch block the cylinders aren't siamesed. the intake manifold seems to have been redone to matchup with reconfigured ports. And those guys must have put a lot of stock in the manifold heat raiser, as they plumbed the exhaust from the drivers side over to the pass side to enable it. Like to be able to see the othere side. Were did you come up with these pics Ed??? You would have thought that this would have been in the WPC museum.

[Young Ed]

Scanned that page from a book called Muscle car color history Hemi by anthony young