Cylinder head cooling arrangement

A cooling arrangement for the cylinder head of an internal combustion engine, said cylinder head having ends and opposing sides, said cylinder head further having a lower surface forming a closure of a cylinder bore and defining at least in part a combustion chamber for said engine, an intake passage extending through one side of said cylinder head and terminating at least one intake port formed in said lower surface on one side thereof, an exhaust passage extending from at least one exhaust port formed in said lower surface on the other side thereof through the other side of said cylinder head, said cylinder head lower surface being formed with a central portion extending between said intake and exhaust ports, a cooling jacket formed in said cylinder head extending at least in part around said intake and exhaust passages and said lower surface, a pair of spaced apart means for introducing liquid coolant to said cylinder head at least at one side of said cylinder head and each spaced toward a respective one end of said cylinder head from one of said passages for directing liquid coolant toward the respective corresponding side of the other of said passages for discharge from an outlet to establish a cross flow of coolant across said engine head, and a pair of flow directing means each extending into said cooling jacket for redirecting at least a portion of the coolant flow away from the respective end of said cylinder head toward each other and toward said central portion.