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Originally Posted by freebeard
I still like flatheads— the Fords, the BMW flat twin.
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I still like flatheads too. Sure they have their limitations, but are still interesting to say the least. Sometimes when I look at the outdated engines still available here in Brazil, even though they're not so old-school as a flathead, I actually don't think the flathead layout would be so worthless at all. Eventually, a lower-revving flathead could remain quite competitive against some random higher-revving modern engine with a smaller displacement, and then comes also the lower stress provided by the lower compression ratio and eventually could also be easier to run leaner... But I'm sure Ni87 wouldn't be willing to do some backyard-engineering to a flathead and drop it into his XTerra
