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1917
Chevy admits it didn’t build the original V8, but will cop to knowing exactly how to twist it for the public. In a word: performance. And so, Chevrolet’s first V8 engine arrived in 1917 (the same year Chevrolet became part of GM). The 288ci Series D had a 90-degree, overhead-valve design borrowed from the straight-six. However, this V8 was made for only two years; smaller engines became GM’s priority. The next-generation V8, a 265ci 4.3-liter, was the first in the iconic small-block series that debuted in 1955. Tweaked versions of Gen I are still produced for industrial and marine industries.
1932
Looking over its shoulder at GM resulted in a win for consumers and racers—the ’32 Ford had a wildly popular component: one-piece-block Flathead V8. The Ford (Model 18) was a performance car, through and through, and its 221ci engine made a whopping 65 horsepower. In the years that followed, it evolved into 239ci and 255ci versions. While it was subject to relatively minor upgrades over the years, the Flathead lasted until the Y-block replaced it in 1954. As an ad in Life magazine stated in 1936, the powerplant was the “smoothest, liveliest engine in the low-priced field.”
1953
The year of the Hemi was 1953, which earned its name from the hemispherically shaped combustion chambers. But it got its genetic footprint from the original Hemi, a V16 used in fighter aircraft. When the world got its first look at the automotive Hemi in 1951, it was a 180-horsepower specimen. In fact, the following year, a custom Hemi was put through the paces in an Indy roadster and was subsequently banned for being too fast. So, it didn’t take long before the Hemi engine was being embraced throughout motorsports, with names like Garlits and Petty in Hemi-powered racecars.
1996
The Ford Modular engines found their way into cars and trucks in 1996, thanks to sizes ranging from 4.6L and 5.0L to 5.4L and 6.8L. For trucks, the Mod engine was named Triton, while Lincoln went with Intech. The engine originated in the ’91 Lincoln Town Car, making its way through various Fords and Mercurys before finally reaching the ’96 SVT Mustang Cobra and Mustang GT. The 5.0L was dubbed Coyote. The Mod’s name stems not from its design but in how the manufacturing plant could switch out tooling quickly for the various configurations, be it V8 or V10.
2009
In 2009, GM broke ground with the LS9 V8. “LS9” had appeared before as an RPO code for the 350ci V8 in 1970s Chevy trucks, but the 638-horsepower supercharged 6.2L Gen IV LS9 debuted in the ’09 Corvette ZR1, and was the fastest production engine ever offered by the Big Three. Among its features were a sixth-generation 2.3L Roots-style supercharger, dry-sump oiling system with Mobil 1 as the factory-recommended original fill, and roto-cast cylinder heads. The idea of the LS9 was proposed to the suits at GM in 2005; during its engineering phase it had more than 300 analytical dyno runs before it was even a real engine.
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