It was considered a major breakthrough when Ford launched its Flathead V8 engine in 1932. Up until that point, V8 engines were expensive and limited to just luxury cars, but Henry Ford wanted one that ...

From dry-lake hot rods to modern track-day missiles, a handful of American V8s have earned near-religious status among ...

The Ford flathead V-8 engine changed hot-rodding forever. When introduced in 1932, the 221ci engine put out only 65 bhp, and even at the end of its production life in 1953 the larger Ford 239ci ...

I see a lot of modern engines, such as the new Hemi or the LS-series, getting custom big-bore sleeves. Can a similar process be done to, say, a flathead Ford? Everyone I ask about this says you can't ...