file.newsgroup.cars.103778 Maven / Gradle / Ivy
From: [email protected] (kevinh)
Subject: Re: V4 engines
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Chuck Fry) writes:
|> In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Matthew R. Singer) writes:
|> >Didn't the Saab Sonnett have a V4? I recall someone telling that it was
|> >something like 1/2 of a Ford 289.
|>
|> Not only the Sonett (correct spelling), but the 95 wagon and 96 sedan
|> used a 1500 cc or 1700 cc V-4 from Ford of Germany. This particular
|> motor had a 60 degree vee angle, a balance shaft and siamesed exhaust
|> ports. This motor was later stretched into the V-6 commonly seen in the
|> Capri.
I think it was the reverse, the V4 being 2/3 of the V6.
|> The V-4 could make pretty reasonable power for its size. But in the
|> Saab, it made too much torque for the transmission, which had been
|> designed for a 3-cylinder 2-stroke.
It was also the worst engine that Ford (Europe) have ever made - bloody
awful reputation. It's most successful application being the Transit
van.
Saab gave up with this motor and then made the Triumph 1854 (half a Stag V8) under license (I believe), but with 2-litre capacity and perhaps a different
arrangement for the cylinder head studs, before developing their own straight
four from the Triumph.
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