Ford CVH engine

The Ford CVH is a straight-four engine whose name stands for either Compound Valve-angle Hemispherical or Canted Valve Hemispherical, after the shape of its combustion chamber. It was conceived in 1974 as a key part of Ford's Erika world car programme and introduced in 1980 in the third-generation European Escort and in 1981 in the first North American Escort. Capacities ran from 1.1 to 2.0 litres, with the smallest sold only in continental Europe and the largest only in North America. It is a cam-in-head design with one camshaft low in the head driving two valves per cylinder through rocker arms, and it was Ford of Europe's first engine with hydraulic lifters. It largely replaced the Kent crossflow engine in Ford of Europe's range.