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Best Engine you have owned/worked on?
vaz:
--- Quote from: Range Rover Blues on January 11, 2008, 15:50:31 ---For ease of working on, the Ford Crossflow, as fitted to my old Escort. 900c, 1.1, 1.3 and 1.6 though these could be bored out to 1760cc.
Only need a few spanners, part were always cheap and there's not much to go wrong with them. I blew one up driving to Hull and I only really noticed when I dropped below 70 when it wouldn't accelerate again, it had dropped onto 2 cylinders. Still got me to work though :)
I could swap an engine on my own in about 4 hours too.
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yes the x flow we could change it in less than an hour ,they did also run with no oil or water for quite awhile ,took us in our childhood days at least an hour to spot the rod lol :roll:
Drift:
--- Quote from: bilge rat on January 11, 2008, 23:28:37 ---me old sierra, 1.8 cvh. had 3 of them but me best 110,000 mile before the head gasket went. did that sold with about 120.000 on the clock was spotless. alan......
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Loads of room to work on them and as long as you changed the oil more often than recommended they kept going, also had a very early orion 16i ghia cvh and the later 16i ghia efi , loved the earlier one best tuned it best ... oooooo I want it back, it was ace :(
Had a 1.4 cvh unbelievably different for the same engine, soooo tight and slow :lol: still I was skint at the time and could fix it for pennies :lol:
carbore:
Not quite on topic but.
My old Toyota MR2 was the best engine I NEVER worked on and nor did anyone else, never missed a beat! despite appaling abuse.
Subaru Impreza Turbo - Err take the engine out to change the spark plugs!!!!!!!
Silvery Thing:
--- Quote from: SWEETY on January 11, 2008, 22:49:18 ---.... the Ford Pinto is also a fav of mine dead easy to work on & you could stap the timimg belts all day long....
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If you mean 'snap' the timing belts then you are wrong [-X The Pinto engine could frequently be damaged by the belts breaking and the valves and pistons making contact. I know the standard 1600cc rarely ever did this but the 2000cc was prone to trouble of this kind :(
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: Tommo on January 11, 2008, 17:57:24 ---The great advantage of the heater system in aircooled cars such as the 126, beetle and 2CV is that if the exhaust leaks it pumps carbon monoxide into the car and you die.
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Pah! That's what opening windows are for :lol:
--- Quote from: Drift on January 11, 2008, 16:08:08 ---A mini 1.3 :cool:
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:shock: You've obviously never tried changing a fuel pump in situ..... or a speedo cable....... or a bottom rad hose...... etc....
All easy with the engine/box out, but a right pig in the car!
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