A6 4.2L - pros and cons?

[Huw Powell]

My Vega had an aluminum block.

It didn't work out well until they sleeved the cylinders with steel.

'74 Vega (unlseeved): engine lasted 40k if lucky

'76 Vega (sleeved): lasted 120k or so.  Came with 60k engine warranty 
out of desperation.

My two Audis?  Bought at 146k and 207k.

Dave wrote:
> lol, i believe that the small block buick v8 has the unofficial title of the
> "worst engine in the world". so bad in fact that the poms paid good money to
> buy it from gm and shove it into rovers and range rovers and release it on
> an unsuspecting public. as much as they tried to put lipstick on it, it
> always grunted and squealed.  ironically it was the aussi's that finally
> re-engineered the engine (head mainly) to be reasonable and put it, in 4.2l
> guise into a absolutely donkey of a car, the leyland p76.  however, to this
> day, jet boats in nz are powered by derivatives of this engine (amongst
> others).  and a long, long time ago, in a parallel universe, i put one into
> a land rover.
>  
> them wuz the days...
>  
> dave
> '03 rs6
> '04 allroad tdi
> 
> 
> 
> On 8/01/09 5:24 PM, "quattro-request at audifans.com"
> <quattro-request at audifans.com> wrote:
> 
>> Message: 9
>> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 23:24:10 -0500
>> From: "John Lagnese" <jlagnese at massed.net>
>> Subject: RE: A6 4.2L - pros and cons?
>> To: "'Tony Hoffman'" <auditony at gmail.com>, <cobram at juno.com>
>> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
>> Message-ID: <D8E2A02417B3420382850F3B3780B67D at wylied4e8841db>
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>> The early 60's Buicks had a small aluminum block v-8. It was a 215 cubic
>> inch unit. That's about a 3.5 liter engine. It was in the Specials and
>> Skylarks.
>> John
> 
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