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B-nut

11-11-2023 02:17 PM

60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Can someone tell us what the 60 h.p. V8 engine weights?

nelsb01

11-11-2023 02:37 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

In June of 2010, someone responded that Ford listed the weight at 300 lbs. Yet another Google search says a engine ready to fire weighed in at around 220 lbs. (it had a lot of aluminum parts)

All I know is that I transported a bare 60 hp block to Michigan back in 1982, and when I arrived a single person lifted it out of the back of a 1981 Ford Escort station wagon.

B-nut

11-11-2023 06:53 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Thankyou nelsb01.

TJ	11-11-2023 07:46 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

The early 60s had tin sides so they would be lighter than the all cast iron ones.

cas3	11-11-2023 07:52 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Wasn't this discussed in Lawson's 60 thread?

V8COOPMAN

11-12-2023 01:53 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Quote:

Originally Posted by cas3 (Post 2269159)

Wasn't this discussed in Lawson's 60 thread?

All I remember was that friggen' fan!

Coop

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tubman

11-12-2023 05:54 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

I would imagine there would be a significant difference between a '37 "Tin Side" with aluminum heads and a '40 (being all cast iron).

V8COOPMAN

11-12-2023 08:33 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Quote:

Originally Posted by tubman (Post 2269343)

I would imagine there would be a significant difference between a '37 "Tin Side" with aluminum heads and a '40 (being all cast iron).

A picture of a V8-60 "Tin Side".

Coop

https://i0.wp.com/www.macsmotorcityg...pg?w=600&ssl=1

Lawson Cox

11-12-2023 08:50 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Quote:

Originally Posted by V8COOPMAN (Post 2269299)

All I remember was that friggen' fan!

Coop

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Locating the correct fan was a HASSEL FOR SURE, and cost a "right smart",but never let be said that I start out on a vast project with "half vast" intentions.

mcflash

11-13-2023 06:26 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Are you talking bare block?

Kurt in NJ

11-13-2023 07:33 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

With transmission—
Model 73, 411 pounds. Commercial
Model 74, 391 pounds, passenger car
Model 75, 454 pounds, big truck
From 1936 service bulletin, 1937 introduction

Tim Ayers

11-13-2023 08:21 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kurt in NJ (Post 2269580)

With transmission—
Model 73, 411 pounds. Commercial
Model 74, 391 pounds, passenger car
Model 75, 454 pounds, big truck
From 1936 service bulletin, 1937 introduction

I know nothing about the V8 60's and what they came in, but I have to ask: Ford offered this wheezer in a big truck (Model 75)? Couldn't have been a big seller.

Lawson Cox

11-13-2023 08:42 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tim Ayers (Post 2269588)

I know nothing about the V8 60's and what they came in, but I have to ask: Ford offered this wheezer in a big truck (Model 75)? Couldn't have been a big seller.

The 60HP I donated to the Archives Museum had the rare "commercial" transmissioin attached. Probably would not pull out the proverbial
"greasy string" either. Just sayin'.

Kurt in NJ

11-13-2023 08:53 PM

Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight

I drove a 60 for a while, to get the best fuel mileage had to keep it under 60, downshift to second as soon as it slowed to 40 on upgrades, over 60 the fuel mileage would go below 30 mpg, 26 mpg at 65-70, flat out it would go 74
The big truck probably spent a lot of time in lower gears

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