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Cut4fun .:
Was a tractor show sat. 
Have more pics of stockers.

But this one caught my eye.

Al Smith:
There was a company that took   8n  Fords and either put an in line Ford 6 or an 8Ba Ford V8 in them .If they didn't use a governer those things would run 50-60 miles hour .Funk aircraft,Coffeyville Kansas .

dpjones:
I think I read that the Funk brothers offered a kit to swap over to the ford flathead 8, gave more power in the field and was cheaper than a bigger tractor.

I used to have an 8N and a 9N, very popular tractor at one time, I didn't like niether one, I bought a 5050 Allis, much better

Al Smith:
It might sound good but with reservations .I know of one conversion where they used an Opal 4 cylinder to replace the Ford tractor engine which was around 70 HP .Keep in mind the Ford 4 banger was around 24-25 HP .It had a tendency to break axles .With a Ford flathead V8 were talking about 90-100 HP .They wouldn't pull any more they just could do it faster .
It's kind of like a small block Chevy or a Ford 302 in a CJ5 Jeep .It won't go any faster and it would break axles also .They would climb the hills in a higher gear but they drank about 3 times the gasoline of the original 65 HP  4 banger .

3000 FPS:
I have seen pictures of 8n's with the ford flat head v-8 but never a 289 or 302.

I still have a 8n that I use all the time.

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