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A 1967 redesign gave it a cross-flow type cylinder head, hence the Kent's alternative name Ford Crossflow. It went on to power the smaller-engined versions of the Ford Cortina and Ford Capri, the first and second editions of the European Escort as well as the North American Ford Pinto (1971, 1972 and 1973 only).
In the 1950s, Ford introduced a three-tier approach to engines, with small, mid-sized, and larger engines aimed at different markets. All of Ford's mainstream V8 engines were replaced by the overhead cam Modular family in the 1990s and the company introduced a new large architecture, the Boss family, for 2010.
A crossflow head gives better performance than a Reverse-flow cylinder head (though not as good as a uniflow), but the popular explanation put forward for this — that the gases do not have to change direction and hence are moved into and out of the cylinder more efficiently — is a simplification since there is no continuous flow because of valve opening and closing.
H engines summarize two families of gasoline engines, the smaller with a max. cylinder bore of 72.2 mm and a larger family with typically 78 mm bore: The smaller family covers 0.9 - 1.33 litres of swept volume and was co-developed by Renault, Mercedes-Benz and Nissan.
351 Cleveland V8 (not the 351 Cleveland M-block engine) 351 Boss; 351 Cobra Jet; 302 Windsor V8; 351 Windsor V8; 400 Cleveland Ford 335 engine#400 V8 aka 400FMX certain 1973 casting numbers D1AE and D3AE, mated to the FMX transmission) 3.8/3.9/4.2L Canadian Essex 90° V6 (RWD only) 240 I6; 300 4.9 I6; 4.6L Modular V8 (first two casting runs ...
Engine number may refer to an identification number marked on the engine of a vehicle or, in the case of locomotives, to the road number of the locomotive.
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The Ford Pinto engine was the unofficial name for a four-cylinder internal combustion engine built by Ford Europe.In Ford sales literature, it was referred to as the EAO or OHC engine and because it was designed to the metric system, it was sometimes called the "metric engine".