Overhead Valve Engine Diagram. This contrasts with earlier flathead engines where the valves were located below the combustion chamber in the engine block. During the engines first decade of production when overhead valve engines were used by only a small minority of makes it was usually known simply as the ford v8 and the first car model in which it was installed the model 18 was often called simply the ford v 8 after its new engine.
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It seems that i often refer to the superiority of the overhead valve engine design as compared to the side valve or flathead engine design.
This contrasts with earlier overhead valve engines where the camshaft is located below the combustion chamber in the engine block. 215 indicates the calendar day of that year 215th day or august 3 1995. My day job is as a consulting engineer although not in the automotive industry so i have an engineering interest in the technical aspects of automotive design. An overhead camshaft engine is a piston engine where the camshaft is located in the cylinder head above the combustion chamber.