Ardun flathead dragster
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Geezerman- Advanced Member
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Oops! We misplaced your pictures on the cloud. A jet went through yours!
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Great job Clay, superb finish all round.
P.S. Love the Bonsai
P.S. Love the Bonsai
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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.
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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Awesome looking thing....
enjoyed the build thread with the usual imagineering along the way
enjoyed the build thread with the usual imagineering along the way
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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.
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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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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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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Right, so they're push rod hemi engines, I thought it was an Overhead Cam type of modification.
Thanks for the info Gentlemen.
Thanks for the info Gentlemen.
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Well you learn something new here everyday it seems.
Good question and nicely answered
Good question and nicely answered
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Nice job Clay.
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Digging the digger Clay. I really like those air filters and the plumbing.
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Sweet job mixing the old with the new Clay !
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