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My dad bought a '79 Cutlass with a 350 V8. Transmission went out at 12,000 miles: yeah, a 200 THM. My dad swore off GM's after that. His last car was a Ford. Yeah, it died of Forditis of the intake manifold. I heard that's quite common on Ford fours and V6's.
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Rick-Yeah... I dunno where you grew up, but if it was Nebraska, there was NO REASON for a car to NOT run well there... Flat as a tabletop, no "High altitudes", nothin' like that. But, again, seems like I remember reading GM had "Redesigned" the turbohydramatic for its "downsized" cars, saved a lot of weight, & prolly, if I know GM, left half the damn parts out. MY Th200 in that Gawdawful '79 Cutloose, you'd "Shire down" on it to get around someone in town, & you'd find out it had somehow thrown itself out of gear, & you were just revvin' it to the Moon. Or, it would seem like it had a dozen or so intermediate gears in it, whilst in traffic, & never could find the one it REALLY wanted.. GM nearly went under for shenanigans like this in the mid-80s, if they HAD, it would have been largely deserved, I think. They bowed down to the FALSE God of Cost Accounting, & nearly died for it.. At what point does "Cost Accounting" stop, & REAL value starts being stripped from the product you're trying to produce ?!?
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I don't even mind working on cars, in fact I like it well enough - but if I want a make work project, I'd rather it be related to vintage electronics. |
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Maxhifi - I did get 300k out of an '06 Mustang, but I hear the new ones *suck*.
If GM has gotten better, they're gonna have to prove it to me. And the last few I've been in weren't even close... |
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