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Best Engine you have owned/worked on?
Evilgoat:
Ahh Worst
Volvo 340GL 1.7 Carb. Cooling issues warped the intake manifold on a weekly basis. Idle problems could be fixed, but for no more than a week. Engine was a Renault Design, very early hydryalic followers that didnt work that well. Was desiged as a transverse engine and fitted in the volvo longtiutinally meaning EVERYTHING was a pig to work on. Even doing a dizzy cap required major acts of contortion and 'modified' screwdrivers.
Gearbox in the rear meaning that propshaft running at full engine speed all the time and no support bearings.
Kaneda:
--- Quote ---There is no distributor, it simply fires both plugs on every revolution.
--- End quote ---
Ah .. not a perfomance car then ;)
Wolfie:
Best, in terms of access at least, has to be any of the Triumph engines when fitted into the Herald based vehicles. Open bonnet, sit on wheel and do any work needed :D There's many that woud say that good access was a necessity :lol: My favorite of the bunch has to be the 1600cc straight six in my Vitesse, with fairly wild cam and straight through exhaust that would sing at high revs, and I'm told the foot long flames it produced out of the exhaust on Italian mountain roads were impressive.
Current favorite engine has to be the Mitsubishi S4L, just because it works and wasn't too much of a problem to fit into the space recently vacated by the K4D.
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: Kaneda on January 11, 2008, 15:26:18 ---
--- Quote ---There is no distributor, it simply fires both plugs on every revolution.
--- End quote ---
Ah .. not a perfomance car then ;)
--- End quote ---
It would do 70mph all day long if you wanted it to :D Totally unburstable!
Range Rover Blues:
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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