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Post by Geezerman Tue 26 Apr 2016, 1:00 am

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Post by Shelby Tue 26 Apr 2016, 1:08 am

Oops! We misplaced your pictures on the cloud. A jet went through yours!
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Post by GaryDainton Tue 26 Apr 2016, 8:24 am

Great job Clay, superb finish all round.
P.S. Love the Bonsai
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Post by dublin boy Tue 26 Apr 2016, 4:26 pm

Clay,
Can you explain the Ardun heads, I can undertand OHC heads being made, but were they actual Hemi type heads with a hemispherical combustion chamber?

I ask because the sparkplug location makes it look like a Chrysler Hemi.
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Post by Guest Tue 26 Apr 2016, 5:39 pm

Awesome looking thing....

enjoyed the build thread with the usual imagineering along the way

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Post by Guest Tue 26 Apr 2016, 6:28 pm

http://www.ardun.com/ardun_histrory.htm

There is a good explanation of the Heads and how and why they were built.

Clay it's outstanding. I'd like to point it down the strip one time and see what it would do.

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Post by Geezerman Tue 26 Apr 2016, 9:48 pm

dublin boy wrote:Clay,
Can you explain the Ardun heads, I can undertand OHC heads being made, but were they actual Hemi type heads with a hemispherical combustion chamber?

I ask because the sparkplug location makes it look like a Chrysler Hemi.

Buck has that question covered. Common mistake I've seen when a modeler puts a set of Ardun heads on a flathead, is not changing to 4 port exhausts.
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Post by harron68 Tue 26 Apr 2016, 10:09 pm

ARDUN heads would've had a bigger impact (and name) if technology had been better earlier and over head valve engines, Chrysler products, Olds light weight V-8 and the Cadillac, hadn't come on the market in the '50s. Cost of the new heads and upgrading of the rest of flathead engines put the heads well beyond affordability of modest rodders.

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Post by dublin boy Tue 26 Apr 2016, 10:56 pm

Right, so they're push rod hemi engines, I thought it was an Overhead Cam type of modification.

Thanks for the info Gentlemen.
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Post by Guest Tue 26 Apr 2016, 11:14 pm

Well you learn something new here everyday it seems.

Good question and nicely answered

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Post by Skid Wed 27 Apr 2016, 12:25 am

Nice job Clay.

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Post by Guest Fri 29 Apr 2016, 3:06 am

Digging the digger Clay. I really like those air filters and the plumbing.

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Post by Sam Tue 03 May 2016, 4:46 am

Sweet job mixing the old with the new Clay !

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