[V8] 3.6L V8 engine needed

toml99 at todomundo.com toml99 at todomundo.com
Tue Jan 10 18:07:43 PST 2012


I'll second Dave about the chance of finding yet a 3rd motor that's  
perfect.  My spare motor only has 125K on it, but wasn't really taken  
care of properly, and does burn oil, and had some low compression.   
That compression went up substantially after 2 shock level doses of  
Techron(bottle in 4-6 gallons of gas) run thru it and my guess is  
that maybe some of the crap got  cleaned off the valves. Someday in  
another lifetime,  I'll pull the heads and have them gone thru.  Head  
bolts/gasket/guides/seals are still less than I'd part with my 125K  
oil burning motor for.  If the motor were out, then a set of rings  
also can make it a "new motor"(calling Dave Head)....

One of my cars has never, and still doesn't burn a noticeable amount  
of oil between the 3000 mile oil changes that it's had it's entire  
life....The rest eat oil steadily, but run fine/don't noticeably  
smoke, but you can smell it.  I just bought a gallon of 2-stroke oil  
for the boat tonight, and it's just a part of owning that motor..I  
look at the V8's the same way.....I could sell them for nothing, and  
buy a new Honda that probably wouldn't burn oil and got stellar fuel  
mileage, but I'd still miss the V8 everytime I got in the car.  Tom



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