Re: 427s

Perhaps it was morphed into the current 4.6L 3 valve 330 HP V8 use in the Mustang, albeit with a single cam?

I vaguely... and I do mean VAGUELY recalled the Calliope.. > > So, I Googled "427 Calliope" and found there is some good info "in the > wild"... > > I do recall the dual camshafts... Two cams IN THE BLOCK in an over under > configuration - mistakenly considered a DOHC arrangement by some. > > The history of the Ottocycle engine is filled with amazing and wonderous > ventures and adventures... Pioneers like Zora Duntov, Smokey Yunick, Dan > Gurney, Offenhauser... too numerous to mention all of them. It is > reasonably safe to say that any idea one of us may dream up has already > been tried... > > Anyone remember the Chrysler "free piston" engine? How about the Bourke > engine... anyone realize people are still trying to redefine some of the > oddballs? Who has seen the crank arrangement on a radial engine? How about > that there are two different styles of rotary engine (at least). > > This stuff is amazing, all the same. > > >> In the late 60s developed a 3 valve 427 with two camshafts, one above the >> other. Two of the valves were intake one exhaust and operated off the top >> camshaft. It had 16 individual intake runners. One version had a oval or >> oblong valve, for lack of a better description, intake valve, that had >> two stems operating on the same layout. >> The engine was called a Callope, or something similar, 427. It was >> developed for LeMans, I seem to remember but was only used, in testing >> possibly and was outlawed. >> My recollections are from hot rod magazines,of the era possibly Popular >> Hot Rodding. >> Has anyone ever come across this engine or have access to articles on it? > >
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