mazda 2.5L (probe also) love to spin # 6 rod bearings. i joined their club yesterday

 

it was alot better than the chevy 2.8 v6

 

The VORTEC 4.3 s are ****. i know a guy thats put 3 into a 98 blazer

 

the early vesrsions of caddys northstar. i woudnt say it was one of the worse but..

 

The straight 6 in my dads 71 Chevy Nova gets my vote he called it his gutless wonder. He bought it new in 71 and drove 10 years and the trany went out on it 500 miles shy of 100k. Thats when he got rid of it.

 

I bought a 76 Monza for my wife back when they were new. It came with the 140 Durabuilt engine making about 85HP with a 2 barrel carb and a 5 speed. It was metallic dark blue, luggage rack on the trunk, and wire wheels. What a dude back then! It was among the very few small cars that my 6'4" body will fit in. I dearly loved the car and all things considered, it would run pretty decent too. I had the engine replaced four times in 30,000 miles. The last time I was in the dealership they told me they would not work on the car again...ever. They had the car for 4 months waiting for the engine and they gave it back to me with four months of dirt on it and on the front end of a wrecker as the battery was dead, imagine that. I had the wife drive my F-100 and I drove her car to a Lincoln dealership and told a sales friend of mine- here's yer car, she's gonna pick hers out and we're outa here. They gave me a great deal on a Cougar she picked out and I've never had another GM anything since. The 140 Durajoke is head of the pack for the sorriest followed by the Quad4 and then the Toyota 3.0 V6 with it's never ending sludge and cam failures.

 

Our 89 Oldsmobile cutlass supreme international series (FWD) had a 2.8 v6 that was a great engine. Never had a problem with it and it had over 200,000 miles. Now the manual 5 speed transmission was a total POS!!!

It was just like this one, I wish I'd never gotten rid of it.

 

3100/3400 series GM V6
Quad 4
3.8/4.2L Ford V6
3.4L SHO V8
3.8L supercharged Ford V6
4.1/4.5/4.9L Cadillacs
8-6-4
Oldsmobile diesels
Northstars
Rotaries
Chrysler 420A

 

Chebbie 350 diesel......nuff said.

 

This is going way back, to my first car, a 65 Corvair Monza. My dad thought it would be a great first car. Funny, right? By far the worst engine I have ever had. Air cooled 6 cylinder that puked oil everywhere no matter how many times I changed gaskets and seals. You couldn't find parts for it anywhere. It ran hot in the summer and ice cold all winter long. I had to scrape the inside windows just to drive it in the winter if it started at all. I can't even count how many times that thing left me stranded somewhere. It finally roasted on the highway when the fan belt blew off and took out the wire for the temp sensor. I was almost relieved that I would not have to dump any more money in that pit ever again.

 

toyota 3zve (I think) it was the first v-6 they put in a truck they had a week lower end and a exhaust valve #5 cylinder

 

oh yeah one more any deawoo engine those timing belts were a joke

 

It was a 2.2L 4 banger I had one In my 1st car 87 dodge charger {2 door omni for those of u who dont know what it is} and it was a BIG POS!! I Literally smoked a cop and thought i was gonn get a ticket he just laughed when he pulled me over and said I made his day!!

 

taurus 3.0 head gaskets..

 

Oh God, how could I forget those. Isuzu used that engine in Rodeos, I forgot what they called it, it was a little 2.2 liter POS. It wasn't a matter of "if" the timing belt was gonna give up, it was when. If you're pushing timing belt services any further than every 60K miles, you're playing with fire with that POS.

The 3.0 liter 2V or 4V was pretty good in regards to head gaskets, at least from what I've seen. '97-'98ish Taurus and Sable 3.0L 2V had horrible cooling systems, even with the bypass kit thingy installed they'd still sludge up and ruin everything in the system. Until they went to the one piece hard plastic oil pan gasket, they'd go through a lot of them too. The 4V was/is a pretty decent engine.