Quiz Questions: engines

"AMC/Renauledge" (n2skylark)
08/07/2015 at 14:18 • Filed to: None

1) What is the smallest-displacement American V8 ever made for passenger vehicle production?

2) What is the smallest-displacement V8 ever fitted to an American production car? Which car?

Note: The answers are totally different vehicles and engines.

3) Since the resumption of auto production after WWII, there has only been a 6-year period when no American-made passenger car was available in America with an American 4cyl engine. What 6-year period was it? Which cars bookended that period?

DISCUSSION (15)

Jack Does Cars > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 14:21

I only know the second one (maybe). What is the 3.4 liter V8 on the 3rd generation Ford Taurus SHO?

jkm7680 > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 14:22

0 liter V8 in the 0 liter V8 mobile made by the 0 liter V8 company.

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 14:22

1 Ford Flathead V8 was around 180 or fewer CI (sub-3-liters)

2. No Idea. If 1 is wrong, then I’ll put the early Ford flatheads for #2

3. 1954-59. Crosley Hotshot and Pontiac Tempest.

nerd_racing > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 14:23

I’m going with the 3.4L SHO V8 too.

crowmolly > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 14:24

3.4L Taurus SHO count?

AMC/Renauledge > Jack Does Cars
08/07/2015 at 14:28

Correct! Yamaha 3.4L V8 in the 1996-99 Taurus SHO.

AMC/Renauledge > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/07/2015 at 14:31

1. Nope. The sub-3.6L (221ci) flathead V8s were made and sold in Europe.

2. Nope. Someone else got this already.

3. One of the 2 cars is correct, and the period is basically correct except it's a year too long.

MultiplaOrgasms > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 14:37

1) Didn’t the Ford Flathead go as low as 136ci in the 1937 to 1940 Fords, and then after the war in french Fords?

2) No fucking idea.

3) Fuck 4cyl engines. Straightsixmasterrace

Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 14:49

55-59

Crosley Hotshot

International Scout?

AMC/Renauledge > Steve is equipped with Electronic Fool Injection
08/07/2015 at 15:14

55-59 is 5 years, and neither vehicle is correct. The Hotshot died after a short 1953 run. And the IHC Scout is not a passenger car. But you got one of the years correct.

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 16:43

Smallest I’m aware of was the 4.0 version of the Northstar that was in the Aurora.

AMC/Renauledge > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
08/07/2015 at 16:50

The answer is 500cc smaller and 35 years older than the Aurora 4.0L

If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > AMC/Renauledge
08/07/2015 at 17:23

Not a production car but there was an Eagle indycar back in the 70’s that used a 3.4l version of the AMC V8.

WilliamsSW > AMC/Renauledge
08/20/2015 at 22:49

Nobody ever came up with the 215 Buick v8, did they? Your name is a giveaway... :)

AMC/Renauledge > WilliamsSW
08/21/2015 at 01:26

Ding ding ding!!!