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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.
The Ford small-block is a series of 90° overhead valve small-block V8 automobile engines manufactured by the Ford Motor Company from July 1961 to December 2000. Designed as a successor to the Ford Y-block engine , it was first installed in the 1962 model year Ford Fairlane and Mercury Meteor .
A conventional two-barrel "2V" (two venturi) version and a four-barrel "4V" (four venturi) performance version were built. The 351C-2V was never marketed as a high-performance engine. It used the small port 2V cylinder heads with open combustion chambers to produce a more economical passenger car engine that was tuned more for low-rpm torque. [3]
By 1952 Ford had new, 215 cu in (3.5 L) OHV 6-cylinder engine and Lincoln had a 317 cu in (5.2 L) OHV V8. [1] The company had designed the Y-block for a 1953 introduction, but a shortage of nickel due to the Korean War 's needs prevented the company from manufacturing the engine in sufficient quantities, [ 2 ] delaying it until 1954.
Today the flat-head Ford is mainly used in "retro" hot-rod builds by builders more interested in an historic feel and recreating history than performance. Even four-cylinder Ford engines are used to make a retro hot-rod "correct". Ford flathead V-8 with an aftermarket twin plug cylinder head & Stromberg carburettors
In anticipation of another engine shortage, the Ford engine plant in Lima, Ohio, which was already producing the 2.3-liter OHC engine, decided they could modify the Falcon inline six block casting molds to remove cylinders 4 and 5 to create a four-cylinder engine. A cast-iron high-swirl cylinder head was developed, and the new 2.3 L engine was ...
The Cologne V6 was designed to be compatible in installation with the Ford Taunus V4 engine, having the same transmission bolt pattern, the same engine mounts, and in many versions, a cylinder head featuring "siamesed" exhaust passages, which reduced the three exhaust outlets down to two on each side. The latter feature was great for ...
Cutaway showing thin-walled, deep-skirted, Y-shaped FE block (ending above the darker colored rectangular oilpan) The FE and FT engines are medium block [citation needed] designs, referred to as Y-block because the cylinder block casting extends below the crankshaft centerline, [citation needed] giving great rigidity and support to the crankshaft's main bearings.