Original Chevy OHV V8 engine
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- This Episode is going to premiere at 3 o’clock so I could be part of the live chat =)
Today on what it’s like, We are going to take a closer look at what the original Chevy overhead valve he ate was produced from 1916 or 1917 to 1918 when chevy was independent, And then became part of GM in 1918 super interesting engine
Enjoy =) 
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welcome home/Coheed and Cambria
it was released 2005
Congratulations you got a great job =) it’s a killer song if you’re in a bad mood and there are parts that sound like Kashmir from Led Zeppelin I don’t know any of the band names but the lead singer plays a double neck guitar just like Jimmy page played for stairway to Heaven.
@@What.its.like. Welcome Home by King Diamond is the real winner.
Interesting comment you made about the Chev V8 being both an OHV and a crossflow engine. The competition at the time did indeed largely have side valve engines, but plenty of them were at that time still T head engines, which is a crossflow sidevalve design. Cheers.
Yes, Louis' original prototype had a 6 cyl T head engine.
T-head engines were obsolete by the end of WWI, so they weren't being used by anybody by WWII, L-heads continued in some economy cars into the 1960's.
The 36 hp is probably the ALAM rating, and 60 hp the actual. HP ratings were not standardized until SAE came along.
Awesome information thank you so much for sharing that =)
Wow, either way, the HP of an old VW!
Alam?
@@slowpoke96Z28 association of licensed automobile manufacturers. Dates back to the Selden patent
The once great and all mighty GMC...look what's happening... it's a tragedy . We need to do better
All the companies are shelves of their former Shelves it’s really sad to see how far all of the companies have fallen
Thanks Jay I’m really enjoying these engine highlight videos
Glad you think this episode engine episode Wednesdays one of my favorite days as well when we get to 30,000 subscribers we’re going to implement people on a certain day.. I would also like to bring back discussion episode Fridays and figure out when to do comparisons as well
First pick the Maxwell the second the Hudson speedster. Another great episode on an unknown engine.
Awesome choices would really like to get into covering some of those cars someday
Glad you dig this episode
Wow, I didn't know of any v8 that split down the middle of the block. I had read that the two piece main bearings should be joined tangentially to the piston stroke, because the compression stroke tends to destroy the bearing. I sure wonder what the longevity was of them.
That first Chevrolet V8 made 55 horsepower in it's first year, 60 in it's second year. That 36 horsepower figure is probably a taxable horsepower rating, not the brake horsepower rating. The Dodge 4 was a 212 cube motor, and it made 35 horsepower, so 55 - 60 horses sounds about right for the actual horsepower for this Chevy 288 cube V8. This car failed to sell because it cost as much as a Buick, but said "Chevrolet" on it, and Chevy had by then become established as a low-priced car, the Buick was known as a medium-priced car. Volkswagen had that problem when they introduced an expensive car called the Phaeton. They say it was a nice enough car, but it said Volkswagen on it, and people refused to pay that much for a "Volkswagen".
Thank you so much for sharing that information =)
These 288 cubic inch V-8 engines were built from 1917 to 1918 and sold through 1919. The exhaust exits through the rear of the cylinder heads. My Uncle had one of these touring cars that was a 1918. There were also 4 passenger roadster models. My uncle's car was sold to a collector in Australia about 25 years ago. The book 60 Years of Chevrolet has a picture of my uncle's engine before he purchased the complete car in 1980. Pinky Randall owned the engine and car when the book was published.
Awesome e information thank you so much for sharing that =)
Jay...the kids wouldn't say star power. They would say Durant was trying to steal Louis Chevrolet's "RIZZ"
Maxwell Hudson
I'm ready digging these Wednesday engine videos. Thanks Jay
=) great choices The Hudson kind of sort of looks like a Mercer
It's interesting learning about the history of the origins of all these autos and related topics. The people behind the cars will be awesome! This era of auros is probablyy least favorite, although I can appreciate them, but I'd pick the Maxwell and Hudson. Cool stuff!😎
The maxwell and the Hudson
Awesome choices
That Hudson looked very similar to like a Mercer it might’ve been the color
Interesting video. I never knew about the antique shall we say Chevrolet OHV. Only that of the famous small block engine that was introduced in 1955. Look forward to that presentation sometime in the future, I hope. As for WYR. 1). None of the above. Those cars are too slow! 2). Definitely the Hudson Speedster. My favorite car company.
Sweet choices
Also they built an Air Cooled engine for a short period before the Corvair and it was recalled I believe.
Corvair engine is definitely an engine I want to cover on this series the plan is the cover them all =)
Yup, the Copper Cooled Chevrolet. One or two still survive. The cooling fan blew air in the wrong direction. That made it impossible for the engine to stay cool.
The Henry Ford Museum has one of the Copper Cooled Chevys. 1922 was the year, and they destroyed all but 2. I would guess that GM has the other.
@@jamesbosworth4191 That seems like a correctable problem, must be more to the story.
@@ramblerdave1339 I seems to be, just make a new fan that blows the opposite way. That problem solved, but the fallout and negative publicity made GM decide that it wasn't worth it.
Poor Chevrolet was pushed out of his own company, Chevrolet was a great machinist and engine designer.
Totally agree I think William Durant had a lot to do with it. That guy was apparently really hard to work with.
Another interesting video. I never knew Chevy started producing V8s this early.
Anyway, for the first scenario I'd puck the 1918 Chevrolet. For the second, the Flanders.
Sweet choices glad you dig this episode
I have won so many bets on the question, “What year did Chevrolet introduce their first OHV V8. Almost everyone says “1955”. Great coverage as alwasy - thank you! WYR: Chevy in for the first, and the Hudson for the second. These WYR really took some thought! Chuck
As life long Chevy guy CHEVY ONLY I wear my bowtie proudly
Yeah I love covering the lost and forgotten gems of yesteryear I would love to hear one of these engines Ron there’s so much conflicting information some pictures have the valves exposed in other pictures have valve covers on top of the valves. It’s definitely a conversation piece that’s for sure especially when you see it inside the car that was originally in =) awesome choices =)
As always -J
@@What.its.like. Search chevrolet d series engine There is a couple videos of running cars on here....cheers
Yea @ 0:47 from what ive been told...2-3 women actually. In each of his firings....
I work with his grandson whom is currently is in his 60s....He tells stories of his grandfather being bit ..."out there in left field."
Buut from what I understand, Durant died penniless.
That’s crazy so many automotive pioneers did
I would want the Chevy for a Touring Car, no question about that, and a Hudson for a Speedster.
Sweet choices =)
There used to be an early V8 Chevy in the Tupelo Auto Museum before it closed. Pretty cool to look at. I have a few pictures of it but don't know where it went when the museum was sold off.
I was not aware of this engine. Thank you for the history lesson, Jay. Very interesting.
I wanted to hit this engine a couple months ago but there’s so much miss information about it that I got scared and shelved it.. just to start all over again when the time was right.
3:15 I believe the term you were looking for is dual-cowl-phaeton
1912 Cole 😉 I've never seen one but I like fenders on speedsters ❤❤🥰 speedsters are my favorite 👍👏👏😊
The Hudson looks like a Mercer 🤔😱
🧑🎓 Useless question for you J ??
Why do they call a two seater a runabout on models before 1908 ?🤷🤔
They had a reputation for running about a Mile before they Died 😢😂
Today if I called a car a Lemon 🍋? Instead of a sports car you'd understand....😂 Useless Trivia 🤪
Another great episode 😉👏👏👏
Happy Motoring ✌️
Great trivia as well as great choices I was thinking the same exact thing that that Hudson looks like a Mercer windshield color everything
I can’t wait for this channel to take off
I was just telling somebody the other day. This channel is never had a viral moment, but I don’t really want it… I’m not ready for it either That’s one of my biggest fears. I don’t want this channel to go supernova… and burn out slow and steady wins in the long run =)
Hi Jay!: Another interesting engine episode! I can only imagine how hard it was to find any good info on this little known engine. About the only thing harder would to find GOOD info on the infamous Copper Cooled Chevrolet! One of Kettering's NOT better ideas! Durant was for sure a MAJOR part of Automotive history. There was a Durant factory in Muncie, Indiana for quite a few years. I have an interesting story, not about Durant, but Durant's son Cliff Durant! He was a rich playboy, thanks to his Dad's success in the auto industry. He was a chubby guy, but still raced Miller racing cars at Indianapolis. Of course the cars were called Durant Specials. But they were Millers. One of his had a flat bottomed steering wheel to clear his large stomach whilst racing! In any event. GM decided to buy the old Inter-State auto plant in Muncie, Indiana, and produce a car called the Sheridan. Now William Durant wanted famed former auto racer and WWI ace Eddie Rickenbacker to run the Sheridan service department division of Sheridan. While on one of the trips to visit Durant, Eddie met Cliff Duran'ts wife Adelade. They became VERY friendly. In fact she decided to divorce Cliff Durant and she married Eddie Rickenbacker!! Well, it wasn't long that Eddie's job with the Sheridan division of GM was short lived, as well as the Sheridan Car itself only made for one or two years. GM decided to get out fast, and Durant bought the factory and produced Durant cars there for many years. So while I cannot confirm William Durant's lady problems, his son Cliff FOR SURE had that sort of problem!!
Forgot! WYR 1 Chalmers, WYR 2 COLE made in Indianapolis!
Thank you so much for all of that insight and information really appreciate it I didn’t know the story, of why Durant got fired but that’s so sad it seems like he had such a sad life..
Great choices too by the way
Cliff's wife sounds like a gold digging celebrity chaser. Nothing new in the world of romance!
Cliff Durant gave his wife, Adelade VD. His unfaithfulness ended their marriage and left her sterile. Eddie and Adelade reared two boys who were both adopted. As for William Durant he tried to buy almost every car company he could. About the only one he was important in creating was Chevrolet and Louis Chevrolet and he came to blows about that as Chevrolet was removed from the company that carried his name. The GM board fired Durant because of the way he spent money buying car companies, most of which quickly failed. Chevrolet happened after he was fired the first time and it was successful enough he was able to secretly (this would not be legal today) buy GM stock and put himself back in control. Chevrolet made friends with another disgruntled associate of Durant, William Little and they produced a car in Indianapolis called the Monroe. Chevrolet also started the Frontenac to build racing cars and performance parts for Fords. Several cars were produced and entered in the 1920 Indianapolis 500, some as Monroes and some as Frontenacs. Louis' youngest brother, Gaston won the 1920 race in a Monroe though some records miss report this as a Frontenac as there was little difference other than the name plate. Gaston was killed in a racing accident later that same year. Chevrolet was back in the winner's circle at Indy in 1921 with Tommy Milton driving a Frontenac.
Most people don't consider that their scarf costs are going to triple when considering a speedster.
Haha I would love to own a speedster one day I kind of sort of wanna build one I’m just not in the position to build one just yet.. if I ever did have a speedster I would take it to every single car show that I couldn’t share it with as many people as I could. You never see those on the road not around here anyway
A friend claims he has 2 of these engines. He's a big antique collector, but won't let me see them to verify they are what he claims.
You should see if it’s the real deal definitely worth getting it running it’s definitely a weird rare piece of history automotive history and a curiosity that nobody really knows about =)
That sounds fishy.
Can he take pictures of them?
The General Motors Heritage Museum had a 1918 Chevrolet on display with this engine in it when our Buick Club of America Chapter visited in 2008. The car was substantial enough to be mistaken for something like a Buick or Cadillac.
Awesome thank you so much for the lead
Yeah the early Chevys were really something they didn’t look like a cheap car, like the model A which was basic transportation essentially
1: All 3.
2: 1912 Hudson Model 33 Speedster.
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If I had to pick any other vehicle from that era, it'd be the Ford Model T because parts are fairly easy to find compared to everything else.
Model T was going to be a contender but figured the Chevy was a more advanced car than the T
Great guess on song not that one think mid 2000s 04-07
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@@What.its.like. The Model T's simplicity is what helped it sell to the masses.
The Pioneer Auto Museum in Murdo SD had one of these engines when I was there years ago.
Awesome thank you for the lead =)
You left out that William Durant’s middle name was “Crapo”… 😂
Must’ve been related to the Marx Brothers…Harpo, Flippo and Turdo.
Haha never heard that one lol
@@What.its.like. You always see his name listed as William C. Durant...I don't know why...
There was a lot of William Durants.. When I was looking for pictures maybe that’s why they put a C
@@What.its.like. ...or he didn't like to be referred to as William "Crapo" Durant. Just sayin'.
I heard Henry Ford never used his middle initial either, although it was suspected it was "A"...for Anti-Semite. 😆
His mother's maiden name per Wiki was Crapo.
And they say ford made the first v8...Ford was the first to sell the v8 in large quantities
Yeah this wasn’t the 1st v8 engine might do an episode on the first v8 eventually
Ford I believe was the first to cast "en-block" a V8.
All others were, cylinders were bolted to the crank case or like this chevy V8 the castings were bolted together in halves via the center line of the engine.
Sounds like you are carrying around a little baggage. You know if you treat them right they don't usually dump you.
Did he say 6 head bolts per bank? Good stuff. Thanks for the video.
6 fasteners is terminology used in the source, glad you dig this episode
Hudson Speedster! 😊
Sweet
The Pioneer Auto Museum in Murdo South Dakota had one. First saw it in 1973
Awesome =)
The Reno car museum has one of these.
Sweet =)
What about the copper v-8? Look at the one at the RENO AUTO MUSEUM.
I’ll have to look into that thank you so much for that information
Based commentary 😂
I think the 1917 Chevrolet V8 also had dual exhaust.
The exhaust ports were in the ends on the heads. The front ports were capped off with flat plates. The rear ports had a neck bolted on the attach the exhaust system to. My uncle Danny had an engine on a stand and the rest of the car was in his garage. He sold it to a guy in Australia.
Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Wetaskiwin Alberta had one years ago, but I haven't been there lately
Good to know thank you
1918 Maxwell Model 25, and 1912 Flanders Model 20 foe myself.
Sweet choices =)
Check out the bellhousing bolt pattern….
one in the car museum in Elkhorn Manitoba
Coker tire museum in Chattanooga Tn has That V8 engine on display
I want to go there one day I would love to interview Corky Coker
That is something on the list of things to do next year =)
If only there was another example of a founder being ousted from their own company...
Steve Jobs.
There’s tons of examples it’s super sad when it happens ransom olds was another one Henry Ford.. The list goes on and on
Great vid!!! 👍👍
cool, I never knew of this, only the '56 year model
I just found out about it last year and I’ve been wanting to cover it and an engine episode ever since then even though we didn’t do engine episodes back then
Glad you learned something from this episode =)
55 was the first 265. 57 was the first 283 engines and introduced of course the Fuelie 283 hp 283 cubic inch V-8. I've ridden in one and with 4:11 gears and 3 speed transmission it was a fun ride.
Mueseum of american speed in Lincoln Nebr. has one.
Thank you so much for the information
Thanks for the video when I was a kid in the '60s my neighbor had one of those Chevy V8s I always thought it was cool and I wanted it but I was only 9 years old so I couldn't have it and on a lighter note check out the name of this band Jesus Chrysler drives a Dodge what a cool name for a band they're from Madison they don't have anything on TH-cam yet I'm waiting have a great day
Haha what a great band name =) great story too thank you so much for sharing that memory
IF THERE WERE 4000 MADE , I WOULD EXPECT ABOUT 40 TO SURVIVE , OUT OF WHICH 6 MIGHT BE IN RUNNING CONDITION .
Wow that’s absolutely crazy
Coker tire Chattanooga TN, has one.
Im going to try to go there next year =)
It's just the drive train and engine no body. To the best of my knowledge it never had a body.
I want to interview corky coker and have him on the channel which maybe be possible
Possibly sober tool sound quality off ,great channel, do you have a video on the stovebolt 235 or the 250 6
We haven’t covered the Chevy in-line six yet trying to get some of the more obscure engines out of the way first =)
That’s a great gas but no the song is from 04-07 era Heavier song this was the band’s biggest hit
Odd stuff is precious knowledge, that's why I like Leno so much, to learn about new old things, see how things were done before all the uniformity
Totally agree I’ve been watching leno since 2005 back when it was Jay’s big dog garage and he still had some black hair I wanted to meet him way back then I was 16 in 05 =)
I was always into 50s cars 50s was always my era.. I guess I kinda lived in my own world and in Waze I guess I still do I drive a 52 Chevy truck as a daily drive any time I need to use a truck that is my truck it’s the only truck I have. I was out in it today and I almost took a picture of it at the gas station because it looks so different than anything out there now. A machine in a sea of appliances
Durant's problems were with his bankers/ financiers (in those days, probably not women).
Can you do a video on the Dodge inline 6 flathead including the multibank tank engine
I will add that to the list of engines to cover =)
Murdo South Dakota museum.
Have you done anything on the gmc big block v6 engines
Not yet here are all of the engine episodes we’ve covered so far is kind of sort of a new thing
th-cam.com/play/PLhccQskrvCMlgntaUQqQEotrwZMNjtYb2.html&feature=shared
The GMC 305
Koker tire company has one
Great to know
1912 Hudson
Great choice I can’t believe how much the Hudson looks like a Mercer it might be the color in the windshield
There was a you tube video guy drove one year or so ago
Sweet =)
@@What.its.like.gave you the info above found it
Maxwell -- Cole
Sweet choices =)
whats Cartoon strip Andy Cap got to do with Chevy
Idk know people have been stealing my thumbnails and replacing them in google search
Check your math and specs 8 cyl engine with 4" cylinder bores and 3.375 inch stroke is 339 cubic inches.
This has all of the information
www.oldcarbrochures.com/static/NA/Chevrolet/1918_Chevrolet/1918_Chevrolet_V8_Brochure/1918%20Chevrolet%20V8-12.html
When I got the specs I got them from this site they may have rounded
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Series_D
@@What.its.like. Well, I see that the official Chevrolet specs list do not disclose total displacement, though they confirm the bore and stroke you list.
So apparently whoever wrote the wiki article is in error. It looks like he may have plugged in the wrong stroke figure. 288 cubic inches would be pretty close if he used 2.875 inches instead of 3.375.
So clearly, then, the error is not yours. My apologies.
8 cyl engine, 4.000' bore , 3.375 in stroke. 339 cubic inches. I've double checked the math.
It has 3.375 bores and a 4 inch stroke.
@@jamesbosworth4191 D'oh!
How did I miss that?
@@xaenon9849 Happens to all of us.
I'll take a Ford flathead anyday over this.
Nothing else matters ---Metallica ?
Great guess but no it’s a bit heavier than that song this song came out in the mid-2000s I was in high school
Foot pounds, not whatever it is you are saying.
there are two different ways to say that the way it said in the video is the correct way according to the link
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Chevy was also swiss and not american
Good to know =)
Corky Coker has one You'll should give him a call He'll accommodate you
I have a very good friend who is friends with Corky I’m hoping next year we can set something up to go down there I would love to interview him. =) it’s crazy the people you run into when doing this.
Thank you so much for the lead
Lukes 1918chevorlet sc productions. Ps see bud merz dry rock studios son drives a t rdstr. Pickup .its a running sawmill w 1930equipment .and tractors
Awesome I’ll check it out =)