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A 427 Cammer once used by Ford's "X-Garage" skunkworks Ford's 427 cu in/7.0 L Cammer SOHC hemi-head V8 showing cam, rockers and timing chains The Ford single overhead cam (SOHC) 427 V8 engine, familiarly known as the "Cammer", [ 25 ] was released in 1964 in an effort to maintain NASCAR dominance by seeking to counter the enormously large block ...
1963–1971 Ford Indy V8 engine (U.S.A.C. IndyCar engine) 1968–1997 385 V8—big-block (370/429/Boss 429/460/514) 1975–2007 Ford-Cosworth Indy V8 engine (U.S.A.C. IndyCar engine) 1970–1982 335/Cleveland V8— small-block (351 Cleveland/400/351M/Boss 351) 1969–1982 Ford Australia produced Cleveland V8 engines 302/351 (Geelong plant)
A hemispherical head ("hemi-head") gives an efficient combustion chamber with minimal heat loss to the head, and allows for two large valves.However, a hemi-head usually allows no more than two valves per cylinder due to the difficulty in arranging the valve gear for four valves at diverging angles, and these large valves are necessarily heavier than those in a multi-valve engine of similar ...
The Ford GAA engine is an American all-aluminum 32-valve DOHC 60-degree liquid-cooled V8 internal combustion engine with a flat-plane crank.It was designed and produced by the Ford Motor Company before and during World War II.
Ford Fairlane 500 Thunderbolt rear view Modified, street-driven, 1964 Fairlane Thunderbolt. Based on the standard two door post sedan Fairlane and named for a factory experimental Fairlane of 1963, the Thunderbolt combined the light weight of Ford's intermediate-sized body introduced in 1962 with a "high rise" 427 cu in (7.0 L) V8 engine with dual 4-barrel Holley carburetors intended for use ...
The Ford G7 is a Can-Am sports racing car that was built by Ford in 1968. Initially fitted with a 427 cu in (6,997 cc) Ford V8 engine, and later using 429 cu in (7,030 cc) and 496 cu in (8,128 cc) versions of the engine, the G7 was extremely unreliable and only ever finished one of the 15 races it competed in. [2] In particular, it had serious issues with overheating and engine problems; the ...
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Produced in Lima, Ohio at the Lima engine plant, the engine family was the final big-block V8 designed and produced by Ford during the 20th century. After 1978, the engines were phased out of Ford cars as its full-size cars underwent downsizing (intermediates last used the engines in 1976). Following its shift to truck use, the 385 engines were ...