{"id":2440,"date":"2009-11-22T22:17:56","date_gmt":"2009-11-23T03:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/?p=2440"},"modified":"2009-11-22T22:17:57","modified_gmt":"2009-11-23T03:17:57","slug":"cadillac-type-51-v8-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/cadillac-type-51-v8-engine\/","title":{"rendered":"Cadillac Type 51 V8 Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"

The V8 engine was actually invented about 1903 and produced in limited numbers by the French firm DeBion-Bouton<\/a>. Introduced in 1914 as the standard engine for all 1915 models, Cadillac’s first V8, the Type 51, used a 90-degree layout with three main bearings, L-head combustion chambers and water cooling. With a 3.125-inch bore and 5.125-inch stroke, the engine displaced 314 cubic inches and produced 70 horsepower at 2,400 rpm.<\/p>\n

Cadillac’s initial design was a true high speed engine with excellent volumetric efficiency and relatively light reciprocating components. There were countless design improvements over the French engine, most importantly, the first use of a thermostatically controlled cooling system that was eventually adopted by all car manufacturers.<\/p>\n

In its first production year, Cadillac put nearly 13,000 vehicles equipped with V8 engines on the road and soon earned world-wide praise for unprecedented smoothness and performance.<\/p>\n

The L-Head was on the Ward’s 10 Best Engines of the 20th century list.<\/p>\n

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1915 Cadillac Type 51<\/p><\/div>\n

The Cadillac Type 51 was a large, luxurious automobile. The similar Types 53, 55, 57, 59, and 61 lasted through 1923, when the design was substantially updated as the Type V-63. Cadillac is a brand of luxury automobile, part of the General Motors corporation, produced and mostly sold in the United States; outside of North America, they have been less successful. ..<\/span><\/p>\n

All bodies were built by Fisher. The Type 51 was also the first left-hand drive Cadillac\u2014all previous models had been right-hand drive, which was continued as an option. Wheelbases varied in those years, with 122\u00a0in (3099\u00a0mm) at the low end and 145\u00a0in (3683\u00a0mm) as the longest.<\/p>\n

Cadillac’s new engine raised the bar for performance with the industry\u2019s first V-type, water-cooled eight-cylinder engine. This 314 cubic inch engine produced 70 horsepower (gross) at 2,400 RPM and was the industry\u2019s first major step in development of high-speed, high-compression engines.<\/p>\n

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1915 Cadillac Type 51 V8 Survivor<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The V8 engine was actually invented about 1903 and produced in limited numbers by the French firm DeBion-Bouton. Introduced in 1914 as the standard engine for all 1915 models, Cadillac’s first V8, the Type 51, used a 90-degree layout with … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,245,246],"class_list":["post-2440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-site-info-news","tag-cadillac","tag-engines","tag-type-51"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2440"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2483,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2440\/revisions\/2483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.caddyinfo.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}