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WTF?.. with a carburetor... you walk on water...

GM 305 V8.

Those Ford V8s with Loctite spark plugs.

The 1ZZ-FE or 2ZZ-GE (I forget... maybe both).

Good engine, but the casting was FUBAR... (i.e. minor CV axle impact cracked the engine block).

...and the infamous Cummins 53 block or the KDP in the 12 valves...

In fairness... less than 5% of 53 blocks actually had a problem... and the KDP is fixable.

Ram 5.7 and 6.4 gassers like eating lifters

My Vega with aluminum block and steel sleeves. I bought it brand new and less than 2,000 miles took back to dealership. They said the rings have not seated yet. I was putting more oil in it than gas. It never got any better, dealership wanted me to pay for an oil consumption check. I told them I was already paying for the oil consumption check all the time since new. Then they wanted me to pay to grind the valves. I said HELL no. I tried to sell but no one wanted the damm thing. Sold it finally to an individual at a hell of a loss. They knew they had problems but ignored them.

307 Chevy cam was not hardened properly would get eaten by the distributor gear and the timing would go off.....

GM didn't start retrofitting that engine with steel sleeves until 1976. A cousin bought a new one in 1971. It started drinking oil almost immediately.

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6.4 isn't bad, just takes money. Stock, yes. Alot of downsides especially since it was only produced for a couple years.

Mine runs great but crappy mileage. Bullet proofed and deleted. I'd rather have the 7.3 but whatever

Yup, an 84, with a carb. It was a nice car.

Worst engine design of all time.

Agreed,

There are many who lost to AMX's who would disagree. And the 258 inline 6 was unstoppable. Lived on into Chrysler days as the 4.0 in the Jeep

I say they were soft cams. went thru 3 cams after maybe 3000 miles on a gmc 350 until a guy told me to get a cam from a speed shop. that lasted

took the car companies 20 years to get over the Arab oil embargo where they made total junk which allowed japanese cars to get a foothold and in fact the US economy never recovered from the embargo which is why there is a 35 trillion dollar deficit and a trillion a year paying interest on it

I rember a Detroit diesel that you needed to put a pan under into catch the oil that dripped out over night ,it had a compression release that you had to pull then you get the starter spinning and let go the release to start the thing. I think the mechanic called it a 250 fuel squeezer ,the drivers just called it a weak ass piece of crap

"The Y was a good family."

If you kept any y block engine long enough you would have valvetrain oiling problems. They even had aftermarket kit to fix the problem because Ford engineers couldn't figure out how. I helped a friend install an aftermarket kit on his '56 Ford 312" y block engine.

Navistar Maxx Force. 40% EGR!!! Really, what were the engineers thinking??

Olds diesel was pretty bad. Dad had one, FIL had one. Those engines seemed like a good idea, just weren’t. They’d go 80K or so. After his diesel died, FIL retrofitted his Olds with a 350 gasser. Dad traded his Olds before it crapped out.

I had a later diesel Suburban. Nothing but trouble. Should have gone with a 350 gasser. But the diesel sounded like a good idea. Hmm….

Live and learn. Tuition gets expensive.

DF