Holy smoke......we are coming perilously close to breaking the rules here fellas. Steve has laid down the forum rules...no porn!! All this mention of underpants holding things from jumping out!!!! We have obviously struck a nerve here, mention a flat-head V8 and folks eyes go all glassy.I just thought they were cantankerous old devils just like Henry 1 himself. The legend in my day was that because the pistons in a V8 were sort of lying on their side, the cylinder wall only wore on that side, making the cylinder oval, and that is why so many old V8's smoked so much. I think a few, quite a few, tubes of Holts Piston Seal were purchased then to try and 'cure' that problem. Remember that stuff. The claim was that you could squirt a tube-full in each plug hole, replace the plugs, start the engine, and in a couple of minutes....a reconditioned engine! Well not quite. What happened was that the Piston Seal burnt to form carbon which gummed up the gaps between the cylinder and piston thereby increasing compression and reducing oil burning...smoking. I tried this on the Singer when I first got it and it SEEMED to work for a while. Then I got really keen and stripped the motor down for a 'proper' recondition and discovered that the Piston Seal had also gummed up the rings, what was left of them, and actually made the condition worse. I eventually re-ringed the 8 hp Singer engine with...CORDS rings...'designed especially for the worn motor'....remember them? The Piston Seal would have been OK for an unscrupulous car sales man....surely there weren't any of those....attempting to sell a 'smoker' to an unsuspecting buyer. Good try Holts, you must have sold thousands of tubes. And the answer to my question, straight from the horses mouth....a B4 COULD get to 90 mph in 2nd gear. There you go Brydon, you weren't having us on after all. I apologise for doubting you.