Ford pushrod V8s served many a driver for decades in a veritable buffet of displacements from 1952 through 2001 (until Ford brought them back for the 7.3-liter Godzilla in 2020). In the early 1990s, ...
Overhead cam modular engines flip those priorities. A classic comparison of pushrod versus OHC layouts points out that the overhead camshaft, which eliminates the long rods, made higher engine speeds ...