ADG 17 - SOLVED - Gordini 3 litre V8 (1967)

[75america]

Identify this engine and earn a point

[dalla]

Coventry Climax FWMV

[75america]

no

[75america]

Experts?

[guido66]

Ford Cosworth DFV?

[75america]

NO

[Otto Puzzell]

No need to yell...

[gilescooperuk]

Well it looks like a 70's normally aspirated V8, and judging by the exhaust is either an F1 or other single seater installation.

Have I got the correct racing formula?

[75america]

You are correct in the fact that it is a V8  and that it is normally aspired, but it is a little bit older than the seventies.
This engine was not powerful enough to compete in F1.  As far as I know it was not installed in a single seater.

[Joao Gois]

Let's start from the beggining: is it Italian?

[75america]

Not Italian.

[Joao Gois]

Wait, wait, wait... american flathead?

[75america]

 

[metalshapes]

Martin V8?

( which was a very compact V8 based on ford X-flow or pre-X-flow parts, I believe )

The reason I think if might be one is that the heads do not look like they are offset from eachother...

[75america]

 

[Joao Gois]

European engine?

[75america]

 

[Joao Gois]

Looks like a racing engine. British?

[75america]

Not British but indeed a racing engine.

[Joao Gois]

German then?

[75america]

 

[gilescooperuk]

italian?

[75america]

italian?

See reply #9+#10

[gilescooperuk]

oops....

French then Renault possibly.

[75america]

You are getting closer now