Hint: It's bigger than those.

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Almost a week has gone by....

Another hint:

It's currently the world's most powerful production V-8 engine.

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The 5.8 Shelby GT500 motor.

 

Yup! That's what it is.

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Very cool, and another 100hp when they switch to camshaft less valve train.

Ford unleashes 650 horsepower 2013 Shelby GT500 | Mustangs Daily

 

Going to have to stick one of those in my Bronco for some testing.

Jim

 

1930: Cadillac introduced new OHV V12 & V16 engines. Cadillac V16 beat the new Marmon OHV V16 to the market by a month. Caddy V12/V16 used thru 1937, then both discontinued. 1938: New Caddy V16 introduced: 135 degree flathead! Why did Cadillac bother? Only about 500 were sold thru 1940, then it too was discontinued.

Cadillac & Cole introduced first V8 (flathead) in 1915. 1949: New Cadillac 331 OHV V8 beat Olds' new 303 OHV V8 to the market by a month. But, that wasn't the original plan. 331 running on test stands in 1936, planned introduction was 1942 along with new Caddy models. But the war in Europe caused Caddy to change their plans.

You do know, of course .. that the original name of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. was the Henry Ford Co. Ford argued with his financial backers, left before a single car was built.

In an attempt to salvage the company, money-men hired Henry Martyn Leland, known as the "Master of Precision" (of Leland & Falconer, formerly of Brown & Sharpe, Colt Pat'd Firearms) as the new prez & chief engineer. First thing Leland did: Renamed the company after the founder of Detroit, French explorer Antoine Laumet de La Mothe Cadillac.

1916: Leland left Cadillac, founded a new company to build Liberty aircraft engines for the war effort. Named the company after his favorite president: The Lincoln Motor Co. was born!

1921: New Lincoln introduced, it was a mechanical marvel, but a styling disaster, Lincoln soon went bankrupt. In 1922 US Bankruptcy Court, the only bidder for Lincoln...was Henry Ford.

 

Incredible how they can pull 650 horsepower from that small an engine and still only run that small of cast exhaust. Makes ya think, all those FEs running cast exhaust. Just kidding. Technology has come a LONG way. How would ya like to have one of those motors in a 65' or 66' ?

 

Found this classic lurking under another classic.

 

The engine.

 

Couple more, couldn't get close enough to see under the hood. What engines did these come with?

 

Went to the car show tonight.

 

Ok one more.

 

Looks like a "T"

 

By Jove I think he's got it.