actually, I wonder what WAS the most produced engine?

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@pickup_man said in actually, I wonder what WAS the most produced engine?:

@atfsgeoff If we're including all of the Chinese knockoffs, which we should because parts are interchangeable, it's not even close.

Agreed. I would conservatively estimate 300 500 million of the damn things built over the past 65 years

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@Peter_Black
Between 1955 and 2011 GM sold more than 100 million SBCs. And they're still making them.

[awesomeaustinv]

@pickup_man I was going to say the same thing, the most-produced vehicle ever plus whatever else its engine snuck into must be the most produced engine.

[EssExTee]

@Peter_Black the Honda 4 stroke single jingle, seeing as it was in the most produced vehicle ever.

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@atfsgeoff Fo Sho

[Ad absurdum per aspera]

Considered as a design pattern rather than a specific engine (I.e., counting all displacement and generations from the origin through the LS years), the small-block Chevy passed the hundred million mark somewhere in the mid 2000s and of course has kept right on going. Popularity and longevity make for a tough combination.

There may well be some things in the realm of small engines (think: Briggs & Stratton lawnmowers.) and motorcycle or scooter engines, that can beat that figure, especially under design-pattern rules, but that's going to be hard to beat for full-fledged automobile engines.

[awesomeaustinv]

@Peter_Black YOU ARE ALL WRONG, on the basis that Mother Nature has been building engines far longer than we have, and there are some estimated five million trillion trillion of them right now, not counting all the ones that have died throughout history. BEHOLD, the Flagellar Motor: The flagellar motor is unique among biological things as a thing that spins, making it technically a nanomachine, but part of a microscopic organism. This is how bacteria move around, and some bacteria have multiple Flagellar motors.

So there you go, Honda and Volkswagen and Chevy can suck it, they will never build as many engines as bacteria do.

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@awesomeaustinv WHAT!! I had no clue about this....TIL

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@Shop-Teacher There were also industrial aircooled VW engines. And planes, and Zambonis. I'm going aircooled on this one.

[Shop-Teacher]

@Qaaaaa It wouldn't shock me.

[HFV_Junkyardin]

@pickup_man Plus thats the most copied engine as well.
Basically every Chinese pit bike has a copy of a Honda 125.

[CoolMinivan.......Nobody]

@Peter_Black GM or Ford small block would be my guess.

The SBC was in literally everything for decades and decades as was the SBF.

[awesomeaustinv]

@ItalianJobR53 Yep! IIRC, flagellar motors have crazy good power density as well. Bacteria are like tiny submarines in some ways, with their flagellar motors spinning the "propeller," which is shaped more like a corkscrew/whip.

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@Peter_Black It is almost certainly the small block Chevy. Beyond the 1955-2001 run in US production cars, it continued long after that in other markets. The small block was used in some Latin American market GM vehicles well into the GMT800 era, to say nothing of ubiquity in industrial applications. Get into the marine market, and GM only stopped producing new small blocks for Mercruiser and Volvo Penta a few years ago.