Best Shop On West Coast To Build a Performance Zephyr V-12!

I am Looking for Advise, Suggestions,Any Information On who/What's the Best Engine Builder/Shop To Build the Most Reliable/Performance 1937 Zephyr V-12

Engine---I have a Pair Of "Jon Scobel" (San Jose,California) High Quality Finned Aluminum Heads With Matching Three 2-Barrel (Stromberg 97's) Aluminum Intake Manifold---I'm looking for the Best Possible Shop!---I would also greatly appreciate any suggestions on how modify the engine while it's being rebuilt to Run Cooler than a Stock V-12 FlatHead---Also to make it more reliable

---Any & All Help Greatly Appreciated---Mike Ceklovsky

Dear Mike,Have you had any conversation with the guys up in Washington that built the 400,000 38 coupe.I would think that would be a good starting place,as for the water pumps,Skip Haney in Fla. rebuilds the pumps with a new style impeller that increases the flow.Someone here will post his number.diz

MIKE;; Sorry I can't Help You with Your question... However I Have A

Question ie; Where did You Acquire The HEADS and MANIFOLD , I have Been

In the Market For INFO on those Item For Some Time Now .. I would Appre-

ciate Any Help You could Pass My Way ..You Can E-Mail Me At The Following

Address....CHamm01@sceinet.com Thank You For any Info You might Have

...CH

Hi Mike, I too have been down the road you are travelling, go back in the archives of this forum to last summer, and you will see reams of info when a project such as yours was in the works, others are or have been interested too, and in answer to your question, here is Tatom's info that Diz mentioned, this is a letter from Clarence Hamm, who also has an interest, and check the attachment for a pic of this very V-12 that was in the $400K streetrod, hope all that helps, Rolf

Good detective work Clarence, would really appreciate any info, good luck, Rolf

At 05:07 PM 1/17/05, you wrote:

Rolf; Dave Tatom's Web Address: Flatheads@tatom.com . His Address is ;

Dave Tatom, PO Box 2504, 14367 Riverbend Rd., Mount Vernon ,WA 98273...

Phone# 360-424-8314 Fax# 360-424-6717

He has A Pretty good Web Site And Seems to Be into Ford Flatheads ...

I'll Try To Contact Him and See if I can Get Any Info.. If I Do I'll let

You know .....

----- Original Message -----

From: "Rolf Burdette" <rolf@sclocalnet.com>

To: "Clarence Hamm" <CHamm01@sceinet.com>

Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 3:05 PM

Subject: Re: Speed Equiptment -- V12

> Yeah Clarence, I know exactly what you mean, I do know this much for sure,

> this beautiful engine pictured here, was built at tremendous cost, for the

> $400 K '38 streetreod by Dave Tatom, he has e-mail and a website, and is

> located in Washington or Oregon. The finned heads were said to be made

> special for this project in Australia or New Zealand, possibly by the

> Hogan firm that is well known down there, the 3 carb manifold I don't

know,

> there is a rumor that this fellow has the molds for 2 and 3 carb V-12

> manifolds, but attempts to reach him that I have made have come to naught,

> you might confer with Jack who is pretty heavy into V-12 speed stuff, and

> has a 2 carb manifold on his postwar Lincoln, I don't seem to have his

> e-mail address, but know he just responded to a post in the last few days

> about this subject, The Rod Shop Newberg , Oregon a fellow named Ken

> Austin is the guy in Oregon, might be worth chasing down, would appreciate

> you letting me know of any success you have with this effort, good luck,

Rolf

heres the water pump info. Skip does an excellent job. new stainless shafts new design impeller and body bored out to accept new style sealed bearings so you dont need to oil them. and they work great. he was charging 250 a pair but that was for a limited time, price was going up to 350 he said after he did 25 sets.

http://www.fordcollector.com/water_pumps.htm

I have some articles on hot rodding the V12 and making your own 3x2 intake out of 3 stock intakes, also if you want a cam ground I can get you Harvy Cranes # and address in florida, he is the only one I have found that will regrind a lincoln cam for hot rodding. although there is not much of a benifit to it, you will get your biggest gains with your heads you are using and a 2x2 or 3x2 intake and some valve work , bigger exhaust and a higher compression. there are allot of of piston makers that will custom make pistons for your application. If you run higher compression run without the thermostats. you can email me if there is any info you need and if I have it I will send it to you.