Ford's First Dual Over Head Cam V-8

Cool.
My current 2003 Mach 1 Has the DOHC engine, about 325HP. She definately moves. WOW, mine is only 281 Cubic inch (4.6L) and gets 25+MPG!! Definate improvement, but that would be cool to have a torque monster like that in a newer mustang!!!

7.5 to 1 compression must have been pretty good being gasoline of that era was only about 75 or 80 octaine. They called a sherman tank a Ronson because it went up on the first hit.

Somewhere I have a picture of a Ford Mustang with one of those stuffed in it. I'll see if I can dig it up.

Thats pretty interesting. I always thought that the Sherman tanks all used Continental radial aircraft engines mounted in the rear. I researched it a little bit and found that not only were the radial engines used, Chrysler also built a 30 cylinder engine that was 5 six cylinder car engines married togeather in a pentagon configuration.

Packard was in it too, they used just about anything that fit the chassis and had enough power.

Here you go. 1100 cubic inches. That's 18 Liters for the kiddies.

http://www.mustangblog.com/index.php/20 ... nk-engine/

Gulp!

WOW, I KNEW someone would try it....I want to see it run.

OK.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1E_OBPpEVs

If fords DOHC V-8 is anything like the one in the dodges I never want one. just put a set of head gaskets on an '00 ram w/ 80,000 the timing chain setup sucks! Goodbye back yard mechanics I'll take an old chevy small block anyday

1st time coaler wrote:If fords DOHC V-8 is anything like the one in the dodges I never want one. just put a set of head gaskets on an '00 ram w/ 80,000 the timing chain setup sucks! Goodbye back yard mechanics I'll take an old chevy small block anyday

I'm not aware of any DOHC V8 that could have made it's way into a 2000 Ram. I'm not a Dodge guy, but to my knowledge the only two V8's available for a Ram in 2000 were the 318 and the 360. Those two engines did have kind of a crappy timing chain setup from what I've heard, the nylon coated teeth wear off the spockets and result in a lot of chain slack.

As for the Ford 4.6 DOHC, they are very reliable, fuel efficient, and powerful for their displacement. My '95 Lincoln Mark VIII has a 280 hp 4.6 DOHC engine, and it is the finest engine that I have ever owned. I will conceed that the small block chevy in my camaro is indeed a lot easier to work on.

The sherman tank also came with a continental R975c1 radial aircraft engine. it produced 400 hp. the Ford V8 was much better.

The Ford was actually cut down to 8 cylinders from an aircraft engine that was a V-12.