Re: your experience with 6 cyl Packard engines: 110/Six/Clipper Six

Posted by Eric Boyle On 2009/12/11 19:11:29

The 245 Packard six is essentially a 327 missing two cylinders. The bore's the same and the stroke's the same as a 327. The Six has 25 less hp than the 288 of '48 and up, and 20 less hp than the contemporary 282. I'd like to get ahold of one of these little sixes and tinker with it one of these days just to see what can be done with them. The BIGGEST problem with these engines, and straight eights included, is the shared intake ports. Packard should have built their inline engines like the Hudson sixes, that is, with separate intake ports instead of the siamesed ports that they used on the intakes.

From all the cross sections that I've seen of the sixes, it appears that they have the same valve design and block design as the I8's, so I would imagine that most internal parts would interchange, IE, rods, pistons, valves, lifters. So, the same things that can be done to the Packard straight eights can be done to the sixes. Head choice won't be as abundant, though.