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    The Lotus-Ford Twin Cam is an inline-four petrol engine developed by Lotus for the 1962 Lotus Elan. A few early examples displaced 1.5 litres, but the...
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  • design a twin-cam version of the Ford Kent engine. Most of the development of the engine was done on the 997cc and 1,340cc bottom end, but in 1962 Ford released...
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    the Alfa Romeo Twin Cam engine, the Jaguar XK6 engine, the early Ford I4 DOHC engine, 10V Volvo Modular engine and the Lotus Ford Twin Cam engine. Hillier...
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    fitted with the same Ford-based Lotus TwinCam engine used in the Elan range since 1962. This was a sophisticated, twin-overhead-cam, 8-valve high-performance...
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    Lotus 900 series is a family of internal combustion engines designed and built by Lotus Cars of United Kingdom. Successor to the Lotus-Ford Twin Cam,...
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    1969, the Super Seven Twin Cam SS used the Lotus Twin Cam engine. Only 13 examples were built. While only manufactured by Lotus for around two years,...
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    in production. List of Ford engines Lotus-Ford Twin Cam engine List of early Cosworth engines "TimeMachines: Little belter: Ford Anglia 1959–1967". Drive...
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    Caterham 7 (category Lotus Seven replicas)
    (194 kW) form. Early cars used the Lotus TwinCam engine (subsequently manufactured by Vegantune), followed by Ford crossflow engines. The first Cosworth...
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    but later replaced by Lotus-Ford units (Ford block, Lotus head and twin-cam valve gear). Lotus also worked with Ford on the Lotus Cortina, a successful...
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    alloy chain-driven twin-cam head. The rights to this design was later purchased by Ford, which renamed it the "Lotus-Ford Twin Cam". It would go on to...
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    available, the Escort Twin Cam, built for Group 2 international rallying. It had an engine with a Lotus-made eight-valve twin camshaft head fitted to...
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    used hemispherical combustion chambers. Lotus has used hemispherical chambers, as in the Lotus-Ford Twin Cam. Hemispherical chambers were a feature of...
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    The frame received additional structural tubes to take the torque of Lotus TwinCam-based 1.6 litre Cosworth Mk.XII and Mk.XIII, mated to "high torque spec"...
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    engine block and features Variable Cam Timing on the inlet camshaft. This displacement has only been used in the Ford Puma. A 155 PS (114 kW; 153 hp) version...
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    Cosworth (redirect from Ford Cosworth)
    based on Lotus TwinCam, through its domination of the class. This newly found security enabled the company to distance itself from the Lotus Mk.VII and...
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    engine, except for one that acted as testbed for the newly developed Lotus-Ford Twin Cam engine. The FWE engine was derived from a lightweight (FW = Feather...
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    B rules, with 1600cc production-based twin-cam engines (initially Cosworth Mk.XIII based on Lotus-Ford Twin Cam and then Cosworth BDD; however, other...
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  • worked on tuned road-car engines for Ford, Chrysler and others. The BRM-tuned version of the 1557 cc Lotus-Ford Twin Cam engine was particularly popular as...
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    of The Autocar magazine in 1955 (while there he also designed the Lotus-Ford Twin Cam for Colin Chapman), to rejoin the team, which now included the Jaguar...
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  • Formula B rules, with 1600 cm3 production-based twin-cam engines (initially dominated by Lotus-Ford Twin Cam-based dry-sump Cosworth Mk.XIII, then by Cosworth...
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    contrasting green side flash down each flank. It had a unique 1558 cc twin-cam engine by Lotus, but based on the Cortina's Kent OHV engine. Aluminium was used...
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    The Lotus Excel (Type 89) is a sports car designed and built by British automobile manufacturer Lotus Cars from 1982 to 1992. It is based on the design...
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  • Anglia, Consul Capri, Cortina Mk.1) 1962–1975 Lotus Twin Cam 1.6 L (used in Lotus Elan, Cortina, Europa, Ford Escort, and Caterham Super Seven) 1967–1980...
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  • slightly, giving it a larger radiator, modified bodywork, and a Lotus Ford twin cam motor. In this guise, the car won many of its outings. For the next...
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    1968 Ford P68 1971 Tyrrell-Cosworth 002 1978 Lotus-Cosworth 79 Problems playing these files? See media help. The DFV is an internal combustion engine...
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    company's new 1973 cc Lotus 907 dual overhead cam, 16-valve all-alloy engine. This multi-valve engine was the first modern dual overhead cam 4 valve per cylinder...
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    was the British Ford Escort RS1600, this car used the Cosworth BDA engine which was a Ford 'Kent' block with a Cosworth 16 valve twin cam cylinder head...
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  • partially match.) 1.1/1.3/1.4/1.6/1.6 Turbo/1.8/1.9/2.0 CVH/SPI 1.6 Lotus Twin Cam 1.6/1.7 Cosworth BDA 2.0/2.3/2.5 Lima (At least early blocks had both...
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    year was replaced with Ford's Duratec 37 3.7 L DOHC V6. Unlike earlier V6s, the new engine featured Twin-independent Variable Cam Timing (Ti-VCT), true...
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     Singapore Lotus-Ford Twin Cam 39min 13.3s SPORTS CAR & GT CARS RACE 15 laps Rank Driver Country Car Time 1. Albert Poon  Hong Kong Lotus Cortina 1500...
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