The Chevrolet

Chevrolet

Chevrolet , also known as Chevy , is a brand of vehicle produced by General Motors Company . Founded by Louis Chevrolet and ousted GM founder William C. Durant on November 3, 1911, General Motors acquired Chevrolet in 1918...

 Series D V8 is an American, liquid-cooled, 288 cu in (4.7 l) capacity, V8 piston automobile internal combustion engine

Internal combustion engine

The internal combustion engine is an engine in which the combustion of a fuel occurs with an oxidizer in a combustion chamber. In an internal combustion engine, the expansion of the high-temperature and high -pressure gases produced by combustion apply direct force to some component of the engine...

, designed and built by Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1917 and General Motors Company's new Chevrolet Division (acquired as part of Chevrolet's 1917 takeover of, and merger into, GM) in 1917 and 1918. It is capable of producing 36 horsepower (26.8 kW) @2700 RPM. This was Chevy's first V8 and the first overhead-valve V8. Chevrolet wouldn't make another V8 until the debut of the famous small-block

Chevrolet Small-Block engine

The Chevrolet small-block engine is a series of automobile V8 engines built by the Chevrolet Division of General Motors using the same basic small engine block...

in 1955.

Overview

This design had an exposed valve train (you could see the pushrods and lifters from the top) with nickel-plated valve covers, an aluminum water-cooled intake manifold; the starter is in the valley, as is the gear driven generator with the fan clutch coming off of it. The gear driven generator runs the distributor as well. The belt in the front only drove the water pump. It had a 50 lb. flywheel and a counter balanced crankshaft.