The Lincoln Y-block V8 engine was
Ford's earliest
OHV V8 engine
A V8 engine is an eight- cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration.
The first V8 engine was produced by the French Antoinette company in 1904, developed and u ...
, introduced by
Lincoln in the 1952 model year.
Like the later and better-known but even more short-lived
Ford Y-block engine, its block's deep skirts gave the block the appearance of the letter Y from the front.
The Y-block's development was in response to the sales success of the competing
Oldsmobile "Rocket" and
Cadillac OHV V8 engines, introduced in the 1949 model year, the
Buick "Nailhead" engine introduced in the 1953 model year, and the
OHV V8
Chrysler Hemi engine in 1951. Also, Ford needed larger and more powerful truck engines. The basic engine design was produced through 1963.
It was replaced by the newer
MEL engine for car applications in 1958,
and was replaced in heavy-duty truck applications by the FT (330/361/391) engines starting in 1964.
279
A version of the Lincoln Y-block was produced for heavy-duty truck applications for the 1952 through 1955 model years.
The engine had a bore of and a stroke of .
302
The version of the Lincoln Y-block was used for heavy-duty truck applications from the 1956 through the 1963 model year.
The engine had a bore of and a stroke of .
Power output was .
The engine was optional equipment on the Ford T-700 Series and standard equipment on the Ford F-750, C-750, and B-750 Series heavy-duty trucks.
317
The first-generation Y-block was the , which replaced the undersquare
flathead V8 on all Lincolns in the 1952 model year and was produced through 1954.
The 317 was oversquare, as was rapidly becoming the fashion, with a bore of and a stroke of .
Power output was ; higher compression, larger intake valves, a
Holley four-barrel
carburetor
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, improved intake and exhaust, and a more aggressive
camshaft
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the next year increased it to .
The engine was unchanged in 1954 except for the vacuum advance mechanism.
These engines used hydraulic valve lifters while Ford truck engines used solid. The stock Lincoln 317 powered the "Mexican Road Race Lincolns". The 317 was replaced by the 341 for automobile applications in the 1955 model year.
Like the 279, the 317 was also used in heavy-duty truck applications for the 1952-55 model years .
Lincolns powered by the 317 won the top four spots in the Stock Car category of the
Pan American Road Race in both 1952 and 1953.
In 1954 Lincolns took first and second place.
332
The version of the Lincoln Y-block was used for heavy-duty truck applications from the 1956 through the 1963 model year.
The engine had a bore of and a stroke of
and produced .
The engine was standard equipment on the Ford F-800, F-900, T-750, T-800, C-800, and C-900 Series heavy-duty trucks.
341
The automobile engine was bored out in 1955 to , displacing .
Power was up to and torque .
in its sole year of production.
368
In the 1956 model year the 341's bore was increased to and stroke to to create a engine
that produced and .
In 1957 horsepower increased to with of torque but the Lincoln still lagged in horsepower and torque behind the
Chrysler Hemi 392 used on the
Imperial
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Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to:
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United States
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* Imperial, Missouri
* Imperial, Nebraska
* Imperial, Pennsylvania
* Imperial, Texas
...
,
Chrysler New Yorker, and
300C, and in horsepower behind the
3-2bbl version of the Cadillac 365 used on the
Eldorado.
The 368 was standard equipment on all Lincolns in the 1956 and 1957 model years,
and standard on the
Mercury Turnpike Cruiser and
Colony Park and optional on the
Mercury Montclair
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,
Monterey
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,
Voyager
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, and
Commuter in 1957, its final year.
Lincoln Y-block engine family
Bore spacing
Although classified by some as a
medium-block V8 (due to its relatively modest maximum displacement of
), the Lincoln Y-block is a
big-block engine in size.
While
bore spacing is relatively modest at ,
the deck height of
is greater than any gasoline powered V8 with the exception of the
Ford Super Duty engine, which gradually replaced the Lincoln Y-block for use on heavy duty trucks.
A useful comparison is the
Oldsmobile V8 engine
The Oldsmobile V8, also referred to as the Rocket, is series of engines that was produced by Oldsmobile from 1949 until 1990. The Rocket, along with the 1949 Cadillac V8, were the first post-war OHV crossflow cylinder head V8 engines produced b ...
, which came in both
small-block and
big-block versions from 1965 to 1976.
Both blocks have a bore spacing of ,
almost exactly the same as the Lincoln Y-block, but differ in deck height, with the small-block's being
and the big-block's .
By this measure the Lincoln Y-block has a larger engine block than the Oldsmobile "big-block." In comparison, the
Ford FE engine has the same bore spacing
but a deck height of .
See also
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List of Ford engines
References
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External links
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