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11-11-2023, 02:17 PM | #1 |
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60 hp. V8 Engine weight
Can someone tell us what the 60 h.p. V8 engine weights?
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11-11-2023, 02:37 PM | #2 |
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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. |
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11-11-2023, 06:53 PM | #3 |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
Thankyou nelsb01.
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11-11-2023, 07:46 PM | #4 |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
The early 60s had tin sides so they would be lighter than the all cast iron ones.
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11-11-2023, 07:52 PM | #5 |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
Wasn't this discussed in Lawson's 60 thread?
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11-12-2023, 01:53 PM | #6 |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
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11-12-2023, 05:54 PM | #7 |
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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).
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
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A picture of a V8-60 "Tin Side". Coop |
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11-12-2023, 08:50 PM | #9 |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
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.
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11-13-2023, 06:26 PM | #10 |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
Are you talking bare block?
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11-13-2023, 07:33 PM | #11 |
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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 |
11-13-2023, 08:21 PM | #12 |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
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.
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11-13-2023, 08:42 PM | #13 | |
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Re: 60 hp. V8 Engine weight
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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'.
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11-13-2023, 08:53 PM | #14 |
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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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