Re: What if Packard developed an overhead cam short stroke straight eight?

Posted by 64avanti On 2014/3/2 22:31:16

Intriguing.
The whole country was thinking V-8 in those days,
though it was a young Packard engineer that fostered the development of the OHC 6 for Pontiac.(funny, they used the Executive name too) The resulting technology was later used by Ford, Mercedes Nissan,just to name a couple.
The big cost savings compromise was to use an F head which limited performance. Also prevented making a V12 out of it which would have been rather bodacious!
One negative of an OHC 8-with all that torque,how would you keep skinny little 4 ply tires on it?