351 Cleveland
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351 Cleveland
I have always heard how the 351 Cleveland was such a good engine. What made this engine such a good engine? Just curious. Do you think Ford will come out with something similar like Dodge did with the Hemi?
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There's no point in recreating the hemi except to have a catch phrase. The 4 valve, pentroof style chamber in the 4.6,5.4 & 6.8 modular engines is superior to the hemi in almost every way. Ford doing something similar would be like taking a step back in technology, so I really don't think so.
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From: PacNW
The whole Hemi thing is a stroke of brilliance on D-C's part but it's mostly marketing. As Brian mentioned multi valve engines with 2 small intake/exhaust valves/cyl instead of 1 big one is a much better design. You get more total flow volume with less valve shrouding issues. Check out the Cleveland heads on Arao's website sometime. 4 valve per cylinder, aluminum heads on a Cleveland or 351M/400 block. If the factory really wanted to rebadge and market the Cleveland that'd be the way to do it.
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From: chicago burbs
my Z3 roadster has a 4 valve hemi head, and DOHC! i wonder if there's a BMW head that would cover the bore size and spacing of a 335 series engine? it'd be a 6 cyl head but just cut off the 2 back cylinders and weld it up. the Aroa heads would polly be cheaper by time it runs anyway, but a Cammer!...oh no. i've just become Ben on this forum.
