Chevy 350: Longest mill still in production?

[hatt]

Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
Originally Posted By: ms21043
Originally Posted By: OVERKILL
The Ford 300 I6 began production in 1965. It is still manufactured for irrigation pumps, snow plows and other industrial applications as you alluded to.


Production of the Ford 300 ceased somewhere around 2005. The company I worked for used a lot of these engines in airport ground equipment and we used to keep spare engines in stock. The last spark ignited engine we purchased before switching to diesel was an Oxx Power Ford 4.9. The Oxx power engine was built with all new parts, none of them from Ford. This engine ran stronger and smoother than the OEM Ford engines.

The 300 inline was replaced by the 4.2 V6.


I still see Natural Gas versions for sale, this link came straight from the Ford Power Products distributor page:

http://www.industrialengines.ca/engines.html

Good to see an old inline warhorse still being made. I'm hoping for an inline 6 revival in pickup trucks when everything is turboed and GDI.

 

[ms21043]

Yes, the Ford 300 is still being produced, just not by Ford. Like the Small Block Chevy, the Ford 300 can be built with all aftermarket parts. The one I mention earlier, the Oxx Power version, was built for generator sets and has several design features not found on the original. An interesting one is that it has wet sleeve cylinders so that it can be rebuilt in place and in theory, last forever.

In the gensets this company builds the engines are turbocharged, intercooled and run on dry fuel. I don't think this is unusual except some of the dry fuels they can run on include hydrogen and anhydrous ammonia. Interesting company, they hold several patents.

http://www.cleangreenengines.com/banners-view/technology/

..sorry about the thread drift.

 

[DoubleWasp]

I'd love to dig through their parts catalog for those turbo parts.