Maybe one bean counter found out how much money they could save by not having to do two different seat angles? For that he got the "junior woodchuck award" of the month cap. That was the same fellow that was later promoted to the v-6 projects and said "we can save 50 cents a block by using a 90 degree vee blocks and run them down the v8 machining lines, and use the same kind of common crankpins and only lose a little bit of smoothness, over the smooth correct 60 degree configuration" He went on to retire leaving GM in ruin until Obama helped out. Just my guess, of course. I wasn't there, they didn't ask me or Ed Cole.
