The miracle of modern engines :D

@davidpowell3347

Жыл бұрын

The Chevrolet V8 of 1955-lighter,cheaper to build? Yet worked better? (Although did a little cribbing from Pontiac's somewhat larger V8 introduced that same year?)

I like the Packard bodies. ❤

Nine main bearings - really built to last!

@MatsCarVideos

9 ай бұрын

The straight 8 is a beautiful engine.

Doc Brown owned a Packard. Ask the man who owns one.

The old Road Draft tube! Crankcase ventilation only when you are going down the road (although I think all the old cars were like that)

@uptoolate2793

8 ай бұрын

They were. It was easy to see when your rings were shot due to the smoke puffing out of the crankcase breather.

Not sure if Packard's automatic transmission had even been introduced when those older styled cars like the picture shows but I think Packard would have been better off buying Hydramatics from General Motors. I think those were among the best cars being made in those days but the public doesn't seem to have liked their old fashioned style appearance (although the Hudson Hornet which I think came about 4 years later seems to have sold well and it had somewhat similar looks) the Hudson Hornet was sort of the last gasp of the old flat head engines (and they had one of the most powerful ones ever put in a car) although it was only a six

@pilsudski36

7 ай бұрын

No question that UltraMatic was a blunder for Packard.

@robertdaniels1269

7 ай бұрын

I doubt GM would have sold Hydramatic to Cadillac’s competitor. Packard took 14 years to develop Ultramatic, and at that the result was debatable. Since it was a 2 speed Automatic, they would have been better off buying from Borg - Warner.

@willgeary6086

6 ай бұрын

​@@robertdaniels1269Something tells me they wouldn't have an issue for GM. They already supplied Nash, Hudson, Willys, Kaiser, heck for a limited time Lincoln too, so selling them to Packard wouldn't infeasible at all.

Looks like there is a small angle between the valve (stems) and the cylinder axis in those engines,might have been part of the engineered combustion chamber shape which could have helped make the chamber a bit more efficient or have allowed slightly higher compression ratios than other L head/flathead engines which I think mostly had the valves parallel with the cylinder axis I understand that some Packard eights were designed such that the weight of the crankshaft counterweights could be more exactly set by having screw in weighted plugs (of various close but varied/selectable weights) that contained lead or something that could be hand fitted and selected during engine build. I don't think very many if any competitors did that.

@keithammleter3824

9 ай бұрын

Screwed on balance weights were the old method used by various makes in the 1920's. Well before 1948, manufacturers in general had improved production processes so that screwed on weights were not needed.

If Packard had stuck to engines and building them for other manufacturers as Navistar did 40 years later, they would still be in business. Their engineering and quality control was unsurpassed in that field. Damn shame it ended the way it did.

@alexkalish8288

7 ай бұрын

They should have let Dutch Darrin run the company instead of Christopher. They hired Christopher because he wasn't a playboy. Too late now -

@robertdaniels1269

7 ай бұрын

The straight eights were solid. The V-8 had it’s weak spots.

A strait 8 in the the late 40's was a fatal mistake. They weren't even overhead valve.

@davidpowell3347

Жыл бұрын

At 6:34 is the "competitor" piston a Buick Dynaflash? I think Packard was fooling around with its V8 design but did not introduce it until several years later. The early year breakthrough Oldsmobile V8 which I think appeared in the 1949 Super 88 probably had a lower advertised power rating than the Packard engine of the same year(but I think the Olds was quicker probably due to the Hydramatic transmission being more competitive than the Packard "Ultramatic" If I were an antique car collector I would probably rather have a Packard with a short final drive,a three speed gearshift transmission,and the overdrive.

@davidpowell3347

Жыл бұрын

Most cars being sold up through 1950 or so were "flathead" including the Dodge and Plymouth. Even the famous Ford V8.

@OldsVistaCruiser

10 ай бұрын

​​@@davidpowell3347- Most American cars didn't get OHV V8s until around 1955. Mopar didn't get an OHV 6 cylinder until the Slant Six in 1959. AMC still offered a flathead six until 1964.

@keithammleter3824

9 ай бұрын

With the low compression ratios used back then, the advantage in fuel economy and performance compared to OHV was slight to non-existent. Once compression ratios went over about 8 to 8.5 to 1, OHV became very desirable. GM was the only company that had OHV engines going back before World War 2. Flat head engines are quieter, a good thing in a car, and are more tolerant of abuse, as exhaust valves have better cooling, and volumetric efficiency falls off more rapidly with RPM than with OHV. A V8 is however, stronger and smoother than a straight 8 of the same capacity, as the crankshaft is much shorter.

@williamleadbetter9686

8 ай бұрын

Don't forget Chrysler's 1951 Firepower V-8 an early Hemi but they didn't call it that yet.

Amusing advert. It claims things like having both centrifugal and vacuum advance, which had been standard on all car engines well before 1948.

@MatsCarVideos

9 ай бұрын

I guess they always have to try and upsell, and make their products seem like the newest and greatest thing on the market

@robertdaniels1269

7 ай бұрын

Yeah, nothing new there.

"Ask the man who owns one" because American women were busy raising great American families instead of competing with men... back when America was great!

@uptoolate2793

8 ай бұрын

The 19th amendment was a mistake.