You are correct sir. The DOHC has 2 cams. Dual Over Head Cam. It also has 4v per cylinder. The 2v GT is SOHV, or Singe Over Head Cam. The number of valves does not necessarily coorespond to the number of cams on every car. And that works in reverse too. There are DOHV cars with 5v per cylinder and SOHV cars with 3 valves per cylinder. hope this helps.

 

Correct.


2Vs per cylinder=16 total

4Vs per cylinder=32 total

 

so my motor has 2 cams total?

 

yeap.

 

yes

 

ok thanks, my buddy kept telling me i only have 1 cam and i dont think he understood the concept so i just wanted to make sure what i was saying was right lol thanks everyone

 

A fox only has one cam

 

HMUSN is correct. The key point is OH. The new mod motors are Over Head. The old ones have the cam in the valley under the intake. I don't remember what they call that, but they only have 1 cam because of it. Most Big Block Chevy's run a single cam, not overhead.

 

^ pushrod.

 

yep thats what the ol 72 has

 

...from where I sit, it's either OHV for Over Head Valve VS SOHC/DOHC....

 

NOrmally traditional muslce cars are supposed to be pushrod. Look at Chevy (other than the Northstar motors) and tell me a sports car that they have, thats a V8, that isn't a pushrod.

Most companies did away with pushrod because of emissions and that OHC was considered "new" technology.

Power wise, pushrods are cheap, easy to work on, and seem to take better to mods.

 

No. Show me one stock push rod long block 281 cubic inch motor making 1000rwhp. People have taken 03-04 cobra motors that far. The Europeans have been using ohc motors in their sport cars since the 50's

 

ya i am more of a OHC guy. pushrods are ok i guess but i like have the OHC more. and **** eletronic is taking over that some day too. I mean some cars have that but I am sure later on the valvetrain will all be eletronic someday.

 

which will be harder to work on but lighter too.