Originally Posted By: artificialist
Originally Posted By: eljefino
They were the big deal for running 'shine, too, until the OHV olds took over.
The 32s had way lower compression, it was around 6:1 b/c of the lousy gas available at the time. In 33 things got better.
I have been told that in high altitudes, Ford flathead engines had a different cylinder head for higher compression.
We had a set of Eddie Mayer racing heads for my grandfather's flathead build, as a well as a triple carb setup. The Eddie heads had MUCH smaller chambers than the stock heads.