magnificent piece of history! even only being 23 I still love the sound of early model car engines. hearing all the mechanical parts in tune. purring like a kitten!
Just marvelous!! I can't believe that little ride has those "pesky overhead valve things" in 1914!! Totally cool ..... and what a hoot to get one crankin' again after SO long with just a couple of wags to its tail ....
Outstanding work of engineering, seems to me that this gentleman knows by heart every minute detail of this engine, I wish to have the opportunity to see one of those in person, from Puerto Rico Jesus Torres.
The engines in today's vehicle are to complex. Let's say the sensors for the for the rear-seat entertainment Centre is sensing there is a pixel drop in the video screen the vehicle will not start to do to this major malfunction. With older cars a major malfunction could something like an engine fire. However, the car would still start.
I have actually seen Cars from the teens and 1920s Start like this and Run like a TOP! I Have a 1925 Chevrolet Sport Coupe! And A Wild 1928 Chevrolet Coach! A 1924 & 1925 Dodge Brother Sedan`s A 1915 REO One Off Sedan a 1929 Ford AA Truck, And a 1931 Plymouth Sedan, And a 1924 Oldsmobile Sedan! THIS CAR IS AWESOME! I LOVE IT!
great video. im trying to compile a sheet on early chevys prior to 1930' I have 2ea 27's. im assuming no starter, the dist and gen are one item?? what carb were used?? do you have some detail pics of the engine i can study?? a friend of mine just died and had a large collection og chevy parts, think i remember seeing a radiator similar to yours, shoul i take a few pics and send them to you. thanks. ron. Littleton, CO. VCCA
In 1914 Chevrolet was still owned by Billy Durant but the 1904 patent for the push rod OHV engine was still owned by GM, so I'm not sure how Durant got around the patent. Durant had previously made pushrod engines when he owned Buick, which became GM, but by 1914 he was no longer with GM so he didn't have rights to the patent. It doesn't matter anyway because he made so much money with Chevrolet that he bought GM back a few years later, and GM bought Chevy, so he owned both companies and merged them so he could make all the OHV engines he wanted to. I think the managers of GM in 1914 when Durant was out of that company, probably didn't have to balls to sue him.
hyzercreek but Durant star 4 s used a flat head and that was an even later car built by Durant I was going to right a post at the bottom but ya I believe this engine has a Oldsmobile head on it if look at the exhaust pipe coming from the rear of the head chev hotrodders back in the day like to put the olds head on their engines for the better flow
@@darylsargent8099 This car has valves in the head, Oldsmobile never had an overhead valve engine until 1949. Maybe you mean Buick not Olds. Buick invented the OHV engine and Chevy and Nash also used it because Louis Chevrolet and Charles Nash worked for Buick and got the OHV there. Walter Chrysler also used to work for Buick and started his company in 1925 but for some reason he made his cars with flatheads.
No EGR valve, AIR pump, PCV valve, catalytic converter, and 2 miles of vacuum tubing. Simple engines with rear wheel drive. Makes you wonder, these cars could be fixed by a farmer working in a field on a hot day. Today, a mechanic in an air conditioned garage, with a computer powered engine diagnostic scope, connected to the cars internal computer system with its 22 sensors and relays, cannot tell you why it dies after start up. And it takes 4 returns to get it fixed, maybe.
I see only ~ONE~ exhaust port!!! Obviously the exhaust from all four valves is channeled through the head to that single outlet. That's a lotta lotta heat from a low comp engine getting dumped into the cooling water. I expect you have to be careful and watch the temp gauge when going up long hills. Thanks for the vid :-)
You need a Stuarts Vacuum fuel delivery system for this car. I had a 1917 Royal Mail Roadster with the bigger 5 1/4 stroke motor with a self starter, driving was a lot of fun...I'll take it off your hands when you get tired of it.
Have You drove it as of Yet? I Bet it is a FUN Car to Drive! It Reminds Me of My REO Except My REO Had a Sedan Top put on a Touring Body, using REJECTED Parts! There are nail holes on the Passenger Rear Door! The Engine is Like Yours with exposed Flywheel! Mine has a Electric Starter Chan Driven! And has Roller Lifters and Roller Rocker Arms! It Looks like a Stage Coach!
I assume that the engine has a valve cover which protects the valve train from dirt and grime and a flywheel cover to protect the flywheel and clutch system. Thanks for the video.
ibsoarin seen many of that time period no cover no starter priming cups for cold weather start . if you rode one yull know what's meant by can't go more than 20mph and live! probably no heat or brakes either.
Nah. Mechanics would still be necessary. The average joe can barely program the clock on their fucking microwave, you want them to successfully adjust a carb?!
***** I will wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment. I do my own wrenching, I could easily enough handle living with a 1914 sedan as a daily as well. But we are not the average joe who sees their car as an appliance, a necessary evil to connect their urban desk job with their suburban home. They don't know, nor do they care to know, what's going on beneath the plastic and aluminum. All they care about is 'does it go y/n'. And people like that keep mechanics in good job security, which is nice, because that's my ultimate career once I get my ASE certs.
Spawndon A little googling goes a long way, friend, especially for something like ASE certs that have national significance and are pretty much required if you ever want to work on cars for a living.
NOTHING COOLER THAN HISTORY COMING ALIVE! THANK YOU FOR NOT ONLY POSTING THIS! BUT DOING THIS PRICELESS ENGINE JUSTICE. TRULY AN INSPIRATION!!
magnificent piece of history! even only being 23 I still love the sound of early model car engines. hearing all the mechanical parts in tune. purring like a kitten!
Just marvelous!! I can't believe that little ride has those "pesky overhead valve things" in 1914!! Totally cool ..... and what a hoot to get one crankin' again after SO long with just a couple of wags to its tail ....
The first overhead valve car was the 1904 Buick
Great job at bringing the old Chevy back to life! :)
wow; i would love to have one that old.what a piece of history. thanks for the video
Outstanding work of engineering, seems to me that this gentleman knows by heart every minute detail of this engine, I wish to have the opportunity to see one of those in person, from Puerto Rico Jesus Torres.
Try and get your 2019 car (any make) to run in the year 2134. Good luck with that. I'll bet that the Chevrolet will still start then.
The engines in today's vehicle are to complex. Let's say the sensors for the for the rear-seat entertainment
Centre is sensing there is a pixel drop in the video screen the vehicle
will not start to do to this major malfunction. With older cars
a major malfunction could something like an engine fire.
However, the car would
still start.
@@Zerodghjj I'd rather take my chances with the engine fire.
awesome sound
If you think this hasn't run in 55 years, well I have this bridge.
If the fuel and spark are right it might start right up
great video.
nice job on the cranking old school done right!!!!
I have actually seen Cars from the teens and 1920s Start like this and Run like a TOP! I Have a 1925 Chevrolet Sport Coupe! And A Wild 1928 Chevrolet Coach! A 1924 & 1925 Dodge Brother Sedan`s A 1915 REO One Off Sedan a 1929 Ford AA Truck, And a 1931 Plymouth Sedan, And a 1924 Oldsmobile Sedan! THIS CAR IS AWESOME! I LOVE IT!
love it !!
Big 4-cylinders sound great!
Huge fly wheel!
I guess that's where the term turn it over came from...Beautiful!!
Cranky too.
Terrific!!
Hey Dan, that old buggy looks vaguely familiar.Good Job!
B. Scher
made me cry...
great video. im trying to compile a sheet on early chevys prior to 1930' I have 2ea 27's. im assuming no starter, the dist and gen are one item?? what carb were used?? do you have some detail pics of the engine i can study?? a friend of mine just died and had a large collection og chevy parts, think i remember seeing a radiator similar to yours, shoul i take a few pics and send them to you. thanks. ron. Littleton, CO. VCCA
wow runs good
In 1914 Chevrolet was still owned by Billy Durant but the 1904 patent for the push rod OHV engine was still owned by GM, so I'm not sure how Durant got around the patent. Durant had previously made pushrod engines when he owned Buick, which became GM, but by 1914 he was no longer with GM so he didn't have rights to the patent. It doesn't matter anyway because he made so much money with Chevrolet that he bought GM back a few years later, and GM bought Chevy, so he owned both companies and merged them so he could make all the OHV engines he wanted to. I think the managers of GM in 1914 when Durant was out of that company, probably didn't have to balls to sue him.
hyzercreek but Durant star 4 s used a flat head and that was an even later car built by Durant
I was going to right a post at the bottom but ya I believe this engine has a Oldsmobile head on it if look at the exhaust pipe coming from the rear of the head chev hotrodders back in the day like to put the olds head on their engines for the better flow
GOD BLESS CAPITALISM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@darylsargent8099 This car has valves in the head, Oldsmobile never had an overhead valve engine until 1949. Maybe you mean Buick not Olds. Buick invented the OHV engine and Chevy and Nash also used it because Louis Chevrolet and Charles Nash worked for Buick and got the OHV there. Walter Chrysler also used to work for Buick and started his company in 1925 but for some reason he made his cars with flatheads.
No EGR valve, AIR pump, PCV valve, catalytic converter, and 2 miles of vacuum tubing. Simple engines with rear wheel drive. Makes you wonder, these cars could be fixed by a farmer working in a field on a hot day. Today, a mechanic in an air conditioned garage, with a computer powered engine diagnostic scope, connected to the cars internal computer system with its 22 sensors and relays, cannot tell you why it dies after start up. And it takes 4 returns to get it fixed, maybe.
I see only ~ONE~ exhaust port!!! Obviously the exhaust from all four valves is channeled through the head to that single outlet. That's a lotta lotta heat from a low comp engine getting dumped into the cooling water. I expect you have to be careful and watch the temp gauge when going up long hills. Thanks for the vid :-)
Circlotron I recall flat hd Fords v8 had the same problem over heat exhaust through head
You need a Stuarts Vacuum fuel delivery system for this car. I had a 1917 Royal Mail Roadster with the bigger 5 1/4 stroke motor with a self starter, driving was a lot of fun...I'll take it off your hands when you get tired of it.
Very cool. Thanks for sharing. Does this engine normally have a valve cover?
no
Have You drove it as of Yet? I Bet it is a FUN Car to Drive! It Reminds Me of My REO Except My REO Had a Sedan Top put on a Touring Body, using REJECTED Parts! There are nail holes on the Passenger Rear Door! The Engine is Like Yours with exposed Flywheel! Mine has a Electric Starter Chan Driven! And has Roller Lifters and Roller Rocker Arms! It Looks like a Stage Coach!
I assume that the engine has a valve cover which protects the valve train from dirt and grime and a flywheel cover to protect the flywheel and clutch system.
Thanks for the video.
ibsoarin seen many of that time period no cover no starter priming cups for cold weather start . if you rode one yull know what's meant by can't go more than 20mph and live! probably no heat or brakes either.
Cadillac got electric start in 1912, Buick in 1914.
My truck makes that sound!
You'll have to wait quite a while to find out :P
ignore typo's. never check "spell checks interpretation of what im trying to write until i hit send
super
Runs good,but no firewall or no valve cover?
Yeah, Buicks had no valve cover until 1919.
I doubt they were meant to go much farther than local rail station w no valve cover and drip oiling system
Did not know they didn't have valve covers back then lol
That started a bit too easy for sitting so long.
It's a CHEVY! Of course it starts easy!
But the way the exhaust manifold and exhaust pipe smoke makes me think it's legit
Must had gav her shit of fuel down the throat
@@scottyjones27 It's an updraft carb there in no throat
The last time it was started, Laura Ingalls Wilder was still alive, and Elvis Presley was 21 years old! 😳
let's see a honda last 98 years!
Back when they made CARS!!!!!!!!
There's nothing quite like an Edwardian American car! Hope it won't be restored, as that would be sacrilege due to its totally original condition.
We are victims of our own technological improvements!Just think how few idiots you would meet on the roads if cars were still started like this!!!
If cars today were half as good as cars from way back when most mechanics would be out of business.
Nah. Mechanics would still be necessary. The average joe can barely program the clock on their fucking microwave, you want them to successfully adjust a carb?!
*****
I will wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment. I do my own wrenching, I could easily enough handle living with a 1914 sedan as a daily as well. But we are not the average joe who sees their car as an appliance, a necessary evil to connect their urban desk job with their suburban home. They don't know, nor do they care to know, what's going on beneath the plastic and aluminum. All they care about is 'does it go y/n'.
And people like that keep mechanics in good job security, which is nice, because that's my ultimate career once I get my ASE certs.
what is an ASE certificate? Automobile System Engineer?
Spawndon
A little googling goes a long way, friend, especially for something like ASE certs that have national significance and are pretty much required if you ever want to work on cars for a living.
TestECull "national significance" remember youtube is a GLOBAL platform there is life outside the USA! Not everyone is aware is aware of ASE
Probably has more horsepower than most chevys today. Not to mention it obviously is more reliable. LOL
+Patrick TheBaptist fart
*****
I'll put one in a jar for you, where you want me to send it? LOL
Send it care of Joe. JOE MAMA LAUL
Patrick TheBaptist naaa
I doubt it hasn't started in the last 55 years... maybe he meant to say last 55 days...
No oil on top of the valves???
oiled manually
@@hyzercreek OK,no problem.But every half mile oiling manualy is not stressing????
@@nelutu6506 100 miles
@@hyzercreek At 100 miles manualy oiling,the valves are baked,cooked and broken in half... :)
@@nelutu6506 Guess not, moron. My 1917 Buick has the same thing and the valves are 103 years old, that 100 years older than you.
xxx
The Chevrolet of 1914 has nothing in common with the Chevrolet today other than the name.