| Photo ID # | e08.23.08__M2_MER_UNK_0060S_1 |
| Car #: | #NA |
| Driver (s) : | NA |
| Location: | NA |
| Date: | 1951 |
| Photographer: | Top Photo: Walt Chernokal, Middle Photo: William Curley, Bottom Photo: John Seyler |
| Photo provided by: | Russ Dodge |
| Comments: |
Senior Moment From Russ
Dodge: Stepping Up Performance The flat-head Ford was the backbone of early stock car racing. It was the power plant that came with the car of choice, in early stock car racing, the 1937-1940 Ford. While my favorite thing to see were the cars that ran “Stacks”(stiff rubber hoses attached to the top of the carburetors and run up thru openings in the hood) , this 1951 Chernokal photo from Alcyon Speedway, shows the early venture into fuel injection. Not being a real “motor head”, I do remember that this was a pre-1953 Ford flathead engine because the water hose outlets are located in the middle of the head and not the front. Again, the photo says it all! I couldn’t get over the wire screening over the air intakes on the fuel injectors! Do you think? Dust and grit were wearing out the rings quickly? Not to slight the General Motors fans, the “mill” in the Chevy 2M at Vineland Speedway, owned by Hugo Mercoli, is included. Boy, if he could have squeezed one more carb to make it a full “6 pack” If one works, two has to be better and then 3 must even “more” better and then 4 and 5!! Note how neat the fuel lines are run and clamped. With the air filters all matching and shining, it looks great. Elton Hildreth remembers driving this car a couple times in 1955, with the only recollection being, it always ran hot. How could a Senior Moment close without one more final photo of the most famous 6 cylinder in the northeast! Tom Skinner had the “enginuity” to make it work! Senior Moment from Russ Dodge |
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| 09/04/08 | Bill Lawson | I remember Frankie Schneider building a motor for Micky Buda's Salisbury Springs # 9 that Paul Walker drove at Georgetown and some other tracks in the late 50's and early 60's and once she got a hold of 6 carburetors, that machine would fly. Beleive it or not Frankie build the motor right in his house dinning room. She had 6 2-- 97's barrel carburetors on top and ready to go. |
| 09/26/08 | Kenneth M Tate | With respect Mr. Dodge, I am sure the flat
head is a 59AB block which went out of production in 1948. If you look
in picture on the head you will see the no 59--. Besides, the 8Ba 1949
till 1953 block had the water inlet at front of heads and the distributor on
side of engine. The 59AB had it on front of timing cover. Thank you for being here. My dad raced at Pitman and Atco with Stubers 210 AND Stubers 410. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MEMORIES, Kenneth M Tate lgetomato@aol.com |
| 10.30.09 | Stanley Walulik | Please note that this engine has studs in the cylinder block using nuts to hold the heads. The 1949 and later used capscrews. (Proper nomenclature for what most people call "head bolts".) |
| 11.12.12 | Jack Burroughs |
The bottom photo looks to me to be one of the Famous Wayne 12 port heads on a 302 c.i. Jimmy engine , with Hilborn Injection, they ran so good that they were outlawed almost everywhere, very expensive in their day, also remember reading that the Reutimann family raced one of them in Fl. |
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