Jimbo
You can fool some of the people some of the time
Rope starting a low compression flat head is way different than rope starting an engine with higher compression.
In the early days of the Animal i tried to pull start and engine on my dyno.
I ended up with a bloody middle finger when the rope got ripped out of my hand and also a bloody nose when my fist hit me in the nose. The starter handle got ripped out of my hand and i punched my self in the nose.
Go ahead and laugh, i am too but at the time it wasn't so funny.
In the early days of the Animal i tried to pull start and engine on my dyno.
I ended up with a bloody middle finger when the rope got ripped out of my hand and also a bloody nose when my fist hit me in the nose. The starter handle got ripped out of my hand and i punched my self in the nose.
Go ahead and laugh, i am too but at the time it wasn't so funny.