A6 4.2L - pros and cons?

[Danton J.A. Cardoso]

Oh, how I know that engine well.  I had a '96 Discovery with a 4.0
litre Buick cum Rover GEMS engine, aka LUCAS electronics.  Believe me,
it was no gem.  Ran well until about 115K, then the issues came into
play.  CEL's, misfires, and of course, the leaking heads.  Ran the
truck to 138K, traded it in for my A4.

On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Huw Powell <audi at humanspeakers.com> wrote:
> 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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