V8 Engine facts
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A wedding ring that was lost for 45 years was found in a car engine a man bought for parts. Will Frye came across the ring when he was taking apart the V8 he’d pulled from a 1972 Oldsmobile 98 junker. He called the former owner and the 93 year old remembered losing it around 1973.
In 1973 the CEO of GM dismissed Honda's CVCC technology as only good for "little toy motorcycle engines." Soichiro Honda then bought a Chevy Impala with a 5.7L V8 and had engineers build a CVCC system for it. Flown back to the US, it passed EPA tests without a catalytic converter.
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The New Ford F150 plays Fake V8 Engine Recordings over its Speakers
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The jet engines of the highly advanced and top secret SR-71 Blackbird were started with a pair of Buick V8 automobile motors.
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The Alabama Department of Public Safety used 132 '71/72 AMC Javelins equipped with 401cu/6.6L V8 engines as Highway Patrol pursuit and high-speed response vehicles.
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An engineer managed to build a fully functional miniature V8 engine entirely out of paper.
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When American Honda dealers persuaded Honda for a V8 engine, American Honda reportedly sent one dealer a shipment of V8 beverages to silence them.
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In the 1980s Saab secretly tried to produce a 280 HP V8 engine, capable of a 250 km/h top speed in a Saab 9000. On a test drive, a higher than normal speeding fine was received because of refusing to open the hood. The engine was canceled due to poor fuel efficiency and Saab being bought by GM.
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GM's Northstar V8 and V6 engines can run without coolant for about 100 miles by cutting off fuel supply to cylinder banks in turn.
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The Mercedes-Benz 300 SEL 6.3 started out as a private project of an engineer who swapped MB's biggest engine, a 6.3 V8, into his 300 SEL. In the end, the company decided to put it into production as a performance version of the 300 SEL.
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When TVR designed a V8 engine for their road cars, its basic design was that of a race engine adapted to road use, so that the company could also sell the motor to racing teams.
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The Merlin engine used in the Spitfire and P-51 mustang also had a ground variant called the "Meteor". It was used to power British tanks until the mid 1960s. There is also a V8 version called the "Meteorite".
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The 2004 Ford GT Prototype CP-1 (VIN #004) has a 5.4L Supercharged V8 with 550hp but is limited to a top speed of 5mph through an electronic engine limiter
Despite being nearly 1/4 the price of the same-year Ferrari 458 Italia, the Ford Mustang Shelby GT350R's V8 engine is 13 lbs (5.9 kg) lighter than the Ferrari's V8. - source
When GM CEO Richard Gerstenberg said Honda's CVCC low emission technology "might work on some little toy motorcycle engine" Founder Soichiro Honda bought a 5.7L V8 Impala, and fitted it with CVCC parts. It was sent back and certified by the EPA for besting emission requirements GM couldn't meet. - source
