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Sure! Help from an unexpected source.
Posted by Stephen Goldberger [Email] (more from Stephen Goldberger) on Wed, 19 Apr 2006 17:12:23
In Reply to: Not the same V6? sure?, Jan Geert, Tue, 18 Apr 2006 03:26:11
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Well,it's the same block, crank, pistons, etc., but those never caused anyone grief. It's the belt drive that, on the original car, was a POS. As we know, that engine then went into the Cadillac Catera, and then into early CTX models. When they heard about the 30,000 belt change interval, and by the way it sometimes breaks anyway, they had a cow. Bingo, no more 30,000 mile belt change, and no significant reliability issues.
The other issue was the V-6's anemic performance, something the turbocharging helped quite a bit.
Finally there was the dollars and cents issue. That GME V-6 was always an expensive engine to build (In Europe, the early V-6 models were priced higher than the 2.3 HOT (Aero) models from what I've heard.) That and the still-muted performance pretty well spelled the end for the 3.0.
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Posts in this Thread:
- how is the V6 Turbo reliability shaking down on this..., rsfeller, Sun, 16 Apr 2006 11:55:05
- Re: how is the V6 Turbo reliability shaking down on thi, Tony T, Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:38:12
- Re: V6 is great except for cam belt/idlers/tensioners, Scott, Mon, 17 Apr 2006 20:47:47
- Bulletproof......, Mike Lynch
, Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:32:48 - Re: how is the V6 Turbo reliability shaking down on this..., NDS, Mon, 17 Apr 2006 11:58:10
- Not the same V6, Ian Glenday
, Sun, 16 Apr 2006 12:10:10
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