VintageRacingCar Posted October 15, 2021 Share Posted October 15, 2021 Looking for a Caddy 314 engine... Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV Puleo Posted October 17, 2021 Share Posted October 17, 2021 (edited) You'd best say what year. The displacement of Cadillac V-8's was 314 cubic inches from 1915 to 1927 though only the 26 & 27 cars were actually called "314's". Edited October 17, 2021 by JV Puleo (see edit history) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageRacingCar Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 On 10/16/2021 at 9:44 PM, JV Puleo said: You'd best say what year. The displacement of Cadillac V-8's was 314 cubic inches from 1915 to 1927 though only the 26 & 27 cars were actually called "314's". You are absolutely right...The one I m looking for is a 1927 (or 1926) Tks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV Puleo Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 I had a 27 - sold to me and registered as a 26. If I remember correctly, it was built in October of 26 but I'm not sure where I got the information and that was close to 40 years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageRacingCar Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 1 minute ago, JV Puleo said: I had a 27 - sold to me and registered as a 26. If I remember correctly, it was built in October of 26 but I'm not sure where I got the information and that was close to 40 years ago. Wow...is an aged Caddy engine...that can work.... Could you please tell me what;s the condition, and email some pictures if its possible? my email is fnk@vintageracingcar.com Thanks Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JV Puleo Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 The car was in excellent condition but it's long gone. It was my first antique car. I was 18 or 19 when I bought it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageRacingCar Posted October 18, 2021 Author Share Posted October 18, 2021 33 minutes ago, JV Puleo said: The car was in excellent condition but it's long gone. It was my first antique car. I was 18 or 19 when I bought it... WOW..THat's Awesome!! now I m feeling bad trying to get it away from you..heheh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drbs Posted October 19, 2021 Share Posted October 19, 2021 I also have one. I also have wheel hubs and a torque tube and front and back bumpers. drbrommerich@gmail.com Thanks, Dave All the fluids have been drained years ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sagefinds Posted December 9, 2021 Share Posted December 9, 2021 This engine is a 1934. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmhowe Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 I agree with Sagefinds: The engine is a 1934 model. The 1935 engine numbers began with 3105001. I think the manifolds are 180 out of phase in the picture: The semiautomatic choke should be facing towards the engine fan. To me the degree of complexity in manifold design that Cadillac went through to maintain a downdraft carburetor is fascinating and awe-inspiring. It's like having an octopus sitting on top of the engine. I think there is only one mixture adjustment on the carburetor, but there is the usual complexity in the linkage. I suspect it would be a real challenge to tune this engine. Makes me wonder why, when many (most?) other cars, even some GM cars, had gone to downdraft carburetor designs. PhiI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VintageRacingCar Posted December 17, 2021 Author Share Posted December 17, 2021 12 hours ago, pmhowe said: I agree with Sagefinds: The engine is a 1934 model. The 1935 engine numbers began with 3105001. I think the manifolds are 180 out of phase in the picture: The semiautomatic choke should be facing towards the engine fan. To me the degree of complexity in manifold design that Cadillac went through to maintain a downdraft carburetor is fascinating and awe-inspiring. It's like having an octopus sitting on top of the engine. I think there is only one mixture adjustment on the carburetor, but there is the usual complexity in the linkage. I suspect it would be a real challenge to tune this engine. Makes me wonder why, when many (most?) other cars, even some GM cars, had gone to downdraft carburetor designs. PhiI Phil Engine is 1934 but still a 314CID?? regarding the intake...Totally agree!...crazy and awesome at the same time Tks Fred Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmhowe Posted December 17, 2021 Share Posted December 17, 2021 According to the factory manuals, the 1934 and 1935 V8 engines had 353 cu. in. displacements. From what I have read, there is not a whole lot of commonality between engines of these two years and others. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivan Saxton Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 There were three series of model 314, produced mainly over 1926-7; with the 314Aphased in as replacement for the last of the V63 sometime during 1925. There were a lot of alterations between a constatly changing progression of models, which an unknowing person might think likely to be very much the same, because the all had fork&blade connecting rods; and identical 3.125" bore and 5.125" stroke for314 cubic inch displacement. All the V63 engines had longer connecting rods and piston skirts. this may have changed performance characteristics a bit with different torque curves, but this also made the engines noticeably heavier. One really basic change happened during 1923. Apparently while chief Engineer Ernest Seaholm was studying European ideas on extended absence, Charles Kettering and mathematician Hutchinson devised a split plane crankshaft with different firing order and counterweights. They obtained the approval of Alfred Sloane; and Engineer Seaholm retuned from Europe to find that without his effort or approval, his Cadillacs had lost their harmonic vibration periods which were very bothersome in cars with large closed bodywork. ( it was a painful nuisance however, if you had to remove a piston and connecting rod from underneath; and the worst annoyance was the need to remove and replace the crankshaft counterweights.) The Man who had been Cadillac agent in Melbourne in the 1920sand 30s told me much because I was polite and happy to listen. We probably have much better sealing compounds for the cork carburetter floats; and i would have much less grief shaping cork for a new one. Starter drove a bevel ring gear, mounted vertically at the back of the engine. Generator was mounted at the front and topof the aluminium crankcase, with fan mounted on the front and driven by a very heavy thick fan belt. Water pump and oil pump were driven by cross shaft and skew gears , one on either side. In the 314Cthe generator and waterpump were mounted low on the right , and driven by a silent enclosed chain. On 314B and C the instruments are mounted with a very elegant German silver plate, which. has a very ornate pressed design,which is inlaid with fiddleback walnut veneer, From all this complex detail you should be able to work out which model you have. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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