JLR Using Old Buick Technology

[MCH86GN]

I was reading through C&D, May 2016 issue, and I spotted a GNX as I was thumbing through the pages. Basically Jaguar Land Rover are hacking 2 cylinders off their v8 5.0L to create a v6, similar to what Buick did in 1961. The crankpins will be split just as with the 3.8L. However, they are managing to keep all 5 main caps.

Kinda thought this was interesting, because I thought the split crankpin was a thing of the past - consider though I have a very limited scope of knowledge with respect to all the OEM blocks.


Link is below.

http://blog.caranddriver.com/block-party-creating-a-v-6-by-declaring-two-cylinders-redundant/

 

[novaderrik]

this is nothing new: Chevy did it when they developed the 90 degree V6 in the 70's: take one of the middle cylinders out of each side of a 305 and you've got the 229- the forgotten 3.8 liter GM V6.. think they also did a 200" version, too, and then later upgraded to the 262" 4.3 by making 3/4 of a 350..

Ford did it with some V6 engines in the 90's: the reason the "mod" motor is called the "mod" motor is because it was modular: they built V6, V8, and V10 variants of it and i vaguely recall talk of a planned V4 that never actually happened..

GMC went totally in the other direction when they fused 2 of their 305" V6 engines together to make a 610" V12 in the late 60's. the Cadillac V16 of the 1930's was essentially a pair of Cadillac V8s fused together, too..