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    The Lincoln Y-block V8 engine was Ford's earliest OHV V8 engine, introduced by Lincoln in the 1952 model year. Like the later and better-known but even...
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  • The Y-block engine is a family of small block overhead valve V8 automobile engines produced by Ford Motor Company. The engine is well known and named...
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  • Edsel, Mercury, and Lincoln vehicles. The MEL (for Mercury-Edsel-Lincoln) began as the replacement for the Lincoln Y-block V8 engine for use in large passenger...
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  • overall engine size. 1932–1953 Flathead V8 1940–1950 Ford GAA engine, exclusively for armored fighting vehicle military use 1952–1963 Lincoln Y-block V8 engine(317/341/368)...
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    The Ford flathead V8 (often called simply the Ford flathead or flathead Ford) is a V8 engine with a flat cylinder head introduced by the Ford Motor Company...
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    Chevrolet small-block engine, the 1954–1963 Lincoln Y-block V8 engine, the 1955–1981 Pontiac V8 engine, and the 1956–1967 AMC Rambler engine. Engine displacements...
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    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...
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  • engine is a range of V8 engines that were manufactured by Ford Motor Company. Introduced in 1958, the Super Duty engines replaced the Lincoln Y-block...
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    automatic, designed for use in big block, high-horsepower V8 engines. At its launch, the fourth-generation Lincoln Continental was offered solely as a...
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    The Ford FE engine is a medium block V8 engine produced in multiple displacements over two generations by the Ford Motor Company and used in vehicles sold...
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    earlier in a company publication, describing the design of its new Lincoln Y-block V8 engine: "The new 'Hi-Swirl' combustion chamber provides a more thorough...
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    similar but larger Lincoln Y-block V8 engine in 1952 for its luxury car lines. These were soon phased out with the Ford Windsor engine in 1962, which still...
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    long-running Flathead V8 (dating from 1932) with an overhead-valve Y-block V8, with Ford and Mercury receiving their own versions of the engine. As a submodel...
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    about the origin of the Essex V6 engine's design have circulated: That the Essex V6 is a Ford small block V8 engine with two cylinders removed That the...
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    longest Lincolns ever built without 5 mph bumpers, a regulatory mandate which went into effect in September 1972. As a replacement for the Y-block V8, Ford...
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  • in 1951, Cleveland Engine Plant number 1 was the site of production for Ford's first overhead valve engine, the Lincoln "Y-block" V8. It also produced...
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  • trucks) 255 V8 330 FT V8 332 V8 352 V8 360 V8 361 FT V8 390 V8 391 FT V8 406 V8 410 Mercury V8 427 V8 428 V8 335-Series (M-Block) 351 M-block V8 (Not to be...
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    each year until the Cosmopolitan's demise. The Capri had a new Lincoln 90 degree V8 engine. It was not offered in an extended length limousine, and the...
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    Duty engine family as big-block V8 engines for trucks, offered in 401, 477, and 534 cubic-inch displacements. The 534 is one of the largest gasoline V8 engines...
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    cubic-inch Lincoln Y-Block V8, shared with the Turnpike Cruiser. For 1958, the Y-block was retired from car use and replaced by the Ford MEL engine, the first...
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    standard engine. The 5.0 L V8 of the previous generation was retired, with the Explorer adopting a 239 hp 4.6 L Modular V8 as its optional engine (shared...
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    (1,145 kg), a 252 cu in (4.1 L) Ford Y-block Interceptor V8 based on the forthcoming overhead-valve Ford engine slated for 1954 model year introduction...
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    cylinder block and crankcase, forming a single 90° V8 engine, thus creating a legend in its own right, the DFV – meaning "Double Four Valve". This engine and...
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    Ford E-Series (category Mid-engined vehicles)
    midengined configuration, placing the engine behind the front axle; consequently, the layout precluded the use of a V8 engine. The Econoline was initially powered...
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    the new body Lincoln introduced a ball joint front suspension and a high-compression, overhead valve 317 cubic-inch Lincoln Y-block V8, with the 4-speed...
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    has intake camshafts sourced from Lincoln's 5.4 L "InTech" V8 to provide more mid-range torque. The Mach 1 engine had a 10.1:1 compression ratio in contrast...
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    resembled the 1965 Lincoln Continental. Also from 1976, the 302 cu in (4.9 L) V8 Windsor engine with a two barrel carburettor replaced the Y-block and became...
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    options were a 223 cu in (3.7 L) straight-6 engine and a 272 cu in (4.5 L) V8. The 292 cu in (4.8 L) Y-block was offered as an option and was called the...
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    1955 Ford (section Engines)
    was the first Australian Ford to receive the new overhead-valve "Y-block" V8 engine, and went on sale at the end of July 1955. Australian Customlines...
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    1959. The 312 Ford Y-block gained 20 horsepower to go with the added weight, and the 290 hp (220 kW) 368 cu in (6.0 L) Lincoln Y-block V8 became an option...
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