belteshazzar wrote:
benzbaron wrote:
I love the crown vic, some models use a plastic intake which explodes if driven hard and others use crap cylinder heads which pop spark plugs. Sounds very reliable!
and yet cab companies and police departments bought them by the... millions.
The "plastic intake" is actually the incorporated thermostat housing which decays and is now (finally) subject to a recall. It was only used for a few years from 1998 to 2002.
The spark plugs only pop if somebody has overstressed the plugs when they were installed, i have owned around 20 Vics, Marquis and town Cars and only 1 had this issue, it popper the plug out twice in 80K and is still running without repair.
You are right, very very reliable.
One of mine was destroyed by a dumbass driver running a stop sign when the odometer read 470K, it still ran like a top, not a single one of my work tanks died under 270k.
ProDarwin wrote:
Twin_Cam wrote:
I think they would probably run for 100K miles without oil...
On a related note, our Saturn did a significant portion of its Lemons race w/ a water:oil mix of like 1:1. Blown HG during testing, and ran a 14 hour race on it. You could REALLY hear the rods knocking during the last hour or two of racing. It was awesome.
Heh. Our (Toyota) Lemons car ate a rod bearing 7 laps into its second event. 7 laps under yellow, I might add, since it was rainy enough that people were considering trading in their car haulers for arks.
Ate the top end at its next/final event. I hope whoever bought it will be having better luck with it.
(ObWithoutOil: I tried to kill a 400 Mopar. Mercy killing. I drove it for two weeks with no oil but for a trickle and whatever was in the filter. You could hear the lifters clattering a mile away. When it refused to die, I added four quarts, at which point the lifters shut up and the rear main seal resumed its hobby of lubricating the exhaust crossover. Then again, at maybe 140hp from 6.6l displacement, it was a very understressed engine)
