Cosworth FVC

[a1topdog]

I'm not familiar with this engine , but with that bottom end it looks like would bolt into a cortina engine bay without any issues.....

For sale in Sweden for £20K - its not one from Bertils horde is it :D

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/listing/23890/Cosworth_FVC_1790cc.html

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/photos/motor021l.jpg

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/photos/motor023l.jpg

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/photos/motor019l.jpg

[Toby]

Dont know anything about the engine but I like the water manifold onto the core plug holes - very clever.

Is this a later version of the SCA?

[v8ian]

FVA was a1600ish engine and the FVC was up to 2.0+
FVAs were fitted to the Alan Mann Mk2 cortina built for the British Touring car Races, and possibly the European Touring car series of the late 60s so the engine should bolt in, I also seem to remember the head design from the FVA was the blueprint for the DFV. The mk2 was only limited in its sucess as the Escort was just coming off the production line about the same time, so development was switched to the lighter, more nimble escort. The reg of the two Alan Mann built with the FVAs were CTC24E and 25E, 24 now being owned by Alan Mann, and 25 is meant to survive somwhere in Belgium in a private collection.
BTW, Hello Toby,:lol:

[R1.Andy]

I'm not familiar with this engine , but with that bottom end it looks like would bolt into a cortina engine bay without any issues.....

For sale in Sweden for £20K - its not one from Bertils horde is it :D

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/listing/23890/Cosworth_FVC_1790cc.html

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/photos/motor021l.jpg

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/photos/motor023l.jpg

http://www.racecarsdirect.com/photos/motor019l.jpg
i no nothing about engines apart from there heavy oll things..but i do no if i had 20k that would look good under my bonnet with the rocker colour coded:yummy

[europatek]

Also known as FVA. The FVA engine was a fore runner to the BDA. The twin cams were gear driven as opposed to belt like the BDA (Belt Driven Application). As far as I know the engine was fitted to the Lotus 62 and works MK1 Escorts and a few MK2 Lotus Cortinas. See this link:-
http://www.lotus-cortina.com/photos/wildbolz/wildbolz2.htm

Further:-

The FVA series
The Cortina engine was also the basis for the FVA, an F2 engine introduced in 1966, and developed under the same contract as the DFV, for the new 1.6 L engine rules. This engine featured 16 valves operated by twin overhead cams driven by a train of 9 gears. The metering unit for the Lucas mechanical fuel injection (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_injection) was rotated by gear and belt from the inlet cam, while the exhaust cam drove an alternator on the rear of the head. It produced a minimum of 225 bhp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower#Brake_horsepower) (168 kW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt); 228 PS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_horsepower)) at 9000 rpm. This engine dominated the category until 1971, and was also used in sports car racing in 1.8 L form as the FVC. The FVA was notable for being part of the same Ford contract that gave rise to the DFV; the cylinder head on the FVA pioneered many of Duckworth's ideas that would be used on the V8 engine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V8_engine).
A larger engine was designed for endurance racing in the mid 1970s, the FVC that displaced 1,976 cc (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_centimetre) (120.6 cu in (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic_inch)). The FVC produced only 275 hp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower) (205 kW (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilowatt); 275 bhp (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horsepower#Brake_horsepower)), down from the 325 hp (242 kW; 325 bhp) that other twin-cam four cylinders such as the Hart 420S produced but was more reliable. Two unusual features were gear-driven cams plus a gear-driven alternator in the cylinder head. One was campaigned in the USA's CanAm series in 1978 in the Osprey SR-1, built and driven by Dan Hartill.