Damn cars....

[RangerBoy94]

At least its not as bad a chevy's 350 "diesel"

 

[Musick17]

At least its not as bad a chevy's 350 "diesel"

Chevys 350 diesel...?

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

His assumption off the top of his head was that the strut was not attached where it should be so he would have to relocate it slightly further inwards. He is keeping the car for tonight, is going to drive it tomorrow morning to see what he thinks, and then poke around a bit on it before he relocates the strut mount.


WTF?? Relocate the mount? It is the factory mount correct?? Duhhh, go someplace else, Bro!!!! Really!!!!

lol some cars you have to take a die grinder and elongate the mounting holes to adjust camber/caster. then it doesn't last long cause the strut towers are so flimsy they flex and bend from driving

 

[RangerBoy94]

Chevys 350 diesel...?

Ya chevy converted the 350 to run on diesel. Long story short it was a total dog and was extremely unreliable.

 

[Musick17]

I love chevys... but thats ridiculous.

 

[Will]

At least its not as bad a chevy's 350 "diesel"

Chevy 350 diesel?

Oh! You mean the Oldsmobile 350 diesel, which was based on the big-block Olds 403, and also yielded a 4.3 V6 diesel and also a weird 4.3 V8 diesel, which had a really small bore with the same stroke as the 5.7 diesel. They were just trying shit. Some of it was okay, but it was way before America was ready for diesels. At the same time, 1978-79, Dodge offered a 4-liter Mitsubishi diesel in their pickups, but nobody wanted it. GM didn't give up on it--Dodge did.

GM had their Detroit Diesel division design a new engine to replace the 403-gasser derivitives. It was the 6.2, which people falsely associate with the Olds "conversions". Scorned, baselessly, by the masses--I even had a National Guard "mechanic" tell me a 6.2 was the same thing as a 350 Chevy, but converted to diesel--the 6.2 has been in service in the US military for 30 years. The engine is still built, in a 6.5 liter displacement, by AMG's AEP division after GM sold it to them. It served for 19 years in GM civilian trucks--1981-2000, roughly. Commercial vehicles had them longer. The parts from an '81 engine will fit on an '00 engine.

How many engines had a 30 year history of production--and still going.

The Chevy 350 diesel you jest about was only around a couple of years and was the proving ground of the engine in the military Humvee. That Olds diesel was offered in the C10 pickup and started the era of diesel power in the US. GM offered the 6.2 in '81 and Ford responded with the 6.9 from International in '82 and it wasn't until 7 years later that Dodge trucks offered the Cummins 5.9.

If you see an old GM car with a diesel, you should help it across the street with respect. It's the granddaddy of the diesel-pickup era. If GM hadn't of proved to the other players that the diesel would sell, we wouldn't have Cummins, Powerstroke and Duramax light trucks today.

 

[Musick17]

Well heck, thanks for the history lesson! i didnt know any of that.

 

[Will]

The people gots to know, brutha.

 

[Musick17]

Thats for sure! And thankfully we have the educated to teach the dumb dumbs

 

[wrecking-crew]

Wait... A 4.3 v6 diesel? Why is this a tempting thing to look for and do to my s-10.

 

[Thed]

I didn't say that.

They are good cars, but like every other vehicle in the world, some years and engines are better than others.

And that is one of the last cars I'd take to the derby. They get good crash test ratings, but I doubt it would hold up in the derby.

Let's see, a unibody FWD family sedan... yeah no derby for this DD.

 

[Will]

I got so wrapped up in the GM diesel hate, I didn't notice that.

A Taurus in the demo!

BWA HA HA!

A Chrysler Newport is in the demo. Or, at least, was.

What are we going to do for demo cars when all the shitboxes are gone? Pickups?

 

[Colin]

What are we going to do for demo cars when all the shitboxes are gone? Pickups?

I think we have a pretty healthy supply of sunfires and cavaliers to trash first

 

[Musick17]

My sister has a shit cavalier shes gettin rid of in the next year. You can bet your ass its gonna be in the logan county derby! Helllll yeah!!

We actually had a woman win the compacts this year. not a dirtbag either. This was a high class *I drive a $90,000 SUV* kinda lady... and she kicked mad ass. It was unreal.

 

[BRUTUS_T_HOG]

pickup truck demo derbys are so brutal compared to cars. they hit harder and don't die easily!