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Originally Posted by bgadow
Certainly if you didn't drive the car much and the gas had to sit for months, you're asking for trouble.
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I mean, you're asking for trouble, anyway, if you do that. Interesting, though. Still, I'm certain that any new parts are ethanol friendly by now.
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Originally Posted by Electronic M
I've heard that many of the inline slant 6 engines were longer lived than most of the V8s available.
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Well in the 60s, most of the straight six's you had were basically pre-WW2 designs with minor updates. They were built like brick shithouses. People like to say the old Chevy stovetop was mechanically unable to over-rev.
Then Chrysler came out with the slant six, which was a thoroughly modern engine. Nascar decided to have a 6 cylinder economy car race. Ford and Chevy just raced some off-the-rack 6 cylinders, which were those ancient designs. Chrysler actually had their racing department work on the slant six for the race. 7 Dodges/Plymouths were in the race. They beat the pants off of Chevy and Ford, taking the first 7 places by a long shot. The race was so boring, they decided to never do it again.
Also, a friend of mine who used to buy and sell a lot of cars back in the day told me a story once about a Chrysler slant six. He said the car was going to the junk yard, so he decided to blow the engine just for fun. He said it took a good 10 minutes of over-revving it to do it in. That's insane!
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Originally Posted by Telecolor 3007
300 cubic inches... that's almost 5 liters (5,000 cubic centimeters). It was underpowered?
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Well consider that most of those straight six motors were very old design, and also because they were the 'cheap' engine option, they usually only had a small single barrel carburetor. I'm sure you could get better performance out of a motor like that now, either with a better carb or fuel injection.