Ward's Best Engines 2014
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wilber1 wrote:DSteiner51 wrote:
I remember years ago there was a manufacturer with lots of experience building engines that was coming out with a new engine. It was new and improved technology that many magazines had articles in about how great an engine it was going to be. It wasn't long after it hit the market that it was found to be junk. Anyone remember the Chevy Vega?
On edit, how could I forget Chevy's 350 ci diesel? That one cost me more per year then any engine I've owned since for the entire life span.
The Vega engine was crap, an experiment gone wrong with its silica coated aluminum cylinder walls. Even Cosworth couldn't fix it for them.
The diesel was what happens when you try to make a diesel from a gasser instead of designing it from scrarch. Cheap to build but not to own.
When I removed the head on a girlfriends Vega to replace the head gasket it was obvious why they blew the head gasket out across the back of the block. It has a area 6 or 7 inches straight across about 1/2 to 5/8 inches wide where the back wall of the block met the head. Nothing there is keep the gasket in place with one part iron and the other aluminum. Cylinders were just tubes pressed into the bottom of the block. Somehow they did not study Plymouth's slant six closely enough!!!! Chris
