The Ford Coyote did overhead cams because those flat plane crank engines are made to spin big time RPM, all good goals and cool design for the purpose, but a totally different animal. Throw in the fact that Ford is pretty much bailing out of the car market, other than the Mustang and they ain't playing in the car market anymore. Chevy is the same, no V8 RWD other than the Camaro. Both cool cars for a 25 year old, but my sore back ain't going far in one of those pony cars. The big block Olds is definitely cool, but kind of irrelevant here, go get one, and don't start putting up links to Pontiac stuff from the 60's...
Other than European imports, the only options for a nice comfy, big a$$ 4D, V8 RWD car with a trunk to travel is Caddy or Dodge/Chrysler. It's a hell of a state of affairs in my opinion, I like my big truck, but I gotta have a go fast comfort cruiser too. I can't believe that American manufacturers have given up on the classic American 4D boat/car and let the Euro Trash take over. I guess that is why they sell so many 1/2 ton pickups with BS 2.7 liter motors that hunt for gear all day.
Back to the Cadillac motor thread, the article notes that the purpose of the overhead cams is to improve valve duration while minimizing overlap, key elements of low end torque. Throw in variable valve timing etc and the result is the following details that caught my eye:
The 4.2L will put out 500 hp and 553 lb-ft. of torque on the regular CT6, and 550 hp and 627 lb-ft. of torque for the top-of-the-line CT6 V-Sport.
Ninety percent of the 4.2L's torque is available from 2,000 to 5,200 RPM.
So in either form, the engine can be tuned to make in excess of 627*90% = 564 ft-lbf between 2000-3000 RPM. For the folks that can only think in Hp, that's 300 Hp at 2,800 RPM. I will hazard a guess that 750 ft-lbf, 400 Hp at 2,800 rpm in a direct drive application is probably not out of the question. So eliminate the weight, prop spacing and power loss of a gear box and this looks like a great potential direct drive power plant.
The wife's car is 12 years, 200K miles old, costing nothing but gas and oil to run for now, but its close to time for a new car, before I spend all my time wrenching on it vs. my toys. It's gonna be hard to pry her fingers off the wheel of the hopped up hemi, she ain't getting no "Smart Car". Those caddy specs should do it, a big fat 4 door V-Sport bimmer smoker is always fun.
It looks like I have time to work the plan. Somewhere around 2030 I will be pulling the caddy motor to go in my 86 hull. So that's the time frame for the sled build for swap over of my '64 O-540 motor.
Just got to figure out what to do with the Hemi after I pry it from the missus. She has been complaining that it needs new rear tires, I agree, they don't hook up until well past legal speed in 2nd any more. She was out of town for 3 weeks and those tires lost a bunch of tread just sitting in the drive way :bom: Always wanted to put some drag slicks on and take it to Moroso.
