Re: Farmall M engine swap to Chevy V 8

Posted by gusc on November 05, 2004 at 19:17:55 from (63.97.117.38):

In Reply to: Farmall M engine swap to Chevy V 8 posted by Donald Burgett on November 05, 2004 at 04:54:45:

All the advice to use a six or four is good. V8s will not develop as much torque at low speeds (1200-1800rpm) as the Chevy and Ford sixes. Torque is what a tractor needs for farming or pulling or anything else.

Horsepower is just work (Torque) at high speed, something no tractor needs and, as many have said, high speed on a tractor is dangerous not to mentionA stupid.

That is the reason for the aux transmissions on the V8s mentioned. You end up with a screaming engine to do the same thing as a slow, quiet 4 or 6?

The old Funk Ford flathead V8 conversions on the N series Ford tractors worked because the flathead was not a high rpm engine, it developed its torque just a little faster then the Ford flathead six which was actually better in trucks than the V8 , trucks in those days did not go very fast due to bad roads.

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