A6 4.2L - pros and cons?

[omar millmech]

Sort of on the subject- Buick replaced the aluminum V8 with an odd-fire V6, based on the same plans.  It would appear that it was engineered by "bean counters" & was of cast iron.  The main engineering after casting in arn & dropping 2 cylinders was to invent some sort of engine mount that could hold on to this paint-mixer of an engine.  GM sold that engine to whoever owned Jeep @ the time, only to buy it back years later.  After a while they came out with an "even-fire" version of it, with a really odd-looking crankshaft with offset rod journals.  Of course, this meant that the crankshaft wasn't as strong as the odd-fire.  Still, they were able to get lots of life out of that & may still be using it.

Millmech


--- On Thu, 1/8/09, cobram at juno.com <cobram at juno.com> wrote:

> From: cobram at juno.com <cobram at juno.com>
> Subject: Re: A6 4.2L - pros and cons?
> To: dave.eaton at clear.net.nz
> Cc: quattro at audifans.com
> Date: Thursday, January 8, 2009, 12:32 AM
> GM did screw the pooch, instead of investing some time and
> money into
> resolving the casting problems (this was cutting edge stuff
> back then),
> GM canned it and sold it to Rover, lock stock and barrel. 
> Rover squared
> it away and went on to sell thousands upon thousands of
> vehicles with
> this engine for almost 4 decades.  The Rover engine is
> closer to the
> Tempest version (Pontiac), which was better refined than
> the original
> Buick version by the time GM sold it.
> This was no where near the "worst engine in the
> world",  plenty of dogs
> that could bark much louder than this one in that contest. 
> GM even tried
> to buy it back, but Rover told them to go pound casting
> sand.
> 
> BCNU,
> http://www.geocities.com/cobramsri/
> "God's a kid with an ant farm. He's not
> planning anything."
> 
> Dave <dave.eaton at clear.net.nz> writes:
> > 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 
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