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Oldsmobile produced a straight-6 automobile engine from 1923 to 1950. It was a conventional side-valve engine of varying capacities and at stages was shared with GMC . Although the engines changed from year to year there were basically 5 series of Oldsmobile side-valve 6 cylinder engines over the 27 years of production, 1923 to 1927, 1928 to ...
The engine did not use a typical coil-on-plug design, but rather two coil+igniter assemblies mounted near cylinder four, and provided spark via normal high-tension cords (spark plug wires). This change means that the 1997-01 Camry 5S-FE has a blocked off distributor mounting hole and could be used with older 5S-FEs without swapping cylinder heads.
In 1935, Pontiac re-introduced their six-cylinder engine, as a 208 cu in (3.4 L) straight-6. The 208 was produced in 1935 and 1936. It was a side-valve design with a timing chain, as was popular at the time. This engine featured a conventional one piece cylinder head, and the distributor was moved to the side of the block.
Spark plugs were located on the inboard side of the cylinder heads and were accessed from the top of the engine. This position allowed for shorter spark-plug wires and kept the spark plugs away from the hot exhaust manifolds, something which was emphasized in sales literature. It was also perceived as being easier to access for maintenance.
The Z18 was also available in some of the commercial vehicle engine lineups; those models were of a single plug cylinder head design. This version was also built to run on LPG, mainly for taxi use. Called the Z18P such an engine produces 84 PS gross (62 kW; 83 hp) at 5600 rpm and 132 N⋅m (13.5 kg⋅m; 98 lb⋅ft) at 2800 rpm when installed in ...
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A 1964 Rambler American with a 195.6 OHV engine. American Motors' first straight-six engine was the 196 cubic inch (195.6 cu in (3.2 L)) six produced from 1952 through 1965, initially as a flathead (L-head) side-valve, and later an overhead valve (OHV) version.
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