Long life Detroit engine?

[Arizona_928]

https://www.enginelabs.com/news/straightforward-fords-indestructible-inline-six-cylinder-explained/

[Por_sha911]

Originally Posted by Arizona_928

I think a more interesting thread would be on which engine won’t make 100k mi…

Chevy 1.5l and 6.2l gassers, anything Kia/Hyundai, 996’s (ims), baby Cummins and duramax.

I have had a Hyundai that went 159k and still going strong when it was traded in.
Currently have a Hyundai with 108k and going strong. Also have two other Hyundais that have 60-75k.

[Dantilla]

Another straight 6 to add to the list:
Jeep's 4.0.

I think it would go 400,000 miles with nothing but Crisco in the oil pan.
Lotsa guys with newer Jeeps bemoaning the woes of the V6 engines that replaced the 4.0.
"Shoud have kept the old TJ" is often heard.

[cabmandone]

Originally Posted by Por_sha911

I have had a Hyundai that went 159k and still going strong when it was traded in.
Currently have a Hyundai with 108k and going strong. Also have two other Hyundais that have 60-75k.

Now ya done it! Ya called down the thunder. Drive carefully.

The Hyundai/Kia engine issue is well documented. Several years ago, when my son's Veloster (NA not turbo) crapped out, the dealer took me behind the service shop and showed me the engine pile. My son's Veloster was going on engine number 3 in less than 50K before I turned that car into a Toyota Highlander as a fix for the problem.

Originally Posted by Dantilla

Another straight 6 to add to the list:
Jeep's 4.0.

I think it would go 400,000 miles with nothing but Crisco in the oil pan.
Lotsa guys with newer Jeeps bemoaning the woes of the V6 engines that replaced the 4.0.
"Shoud have kept the old TJ" is often heard.

Forgot about those! Yeah they have almost a cult like following.

[wdfifteen]

Comparing an engine built with 60-year-old technology and modern engines is unfair to the old workhorses. I've had about half a dozen Scant Sixes in my life, and they were all great engines. Their Achilles heel was the plastic drive gear on the end of the distributor. Like timing belts, it ought to be replaced as regular maintenance, but it's cheaper and easier than a timing belt.

The video in the OP is hilarious! So many of the images have nothing to do with the narration behind them. It is apparently done with/by AI. The voice is the same "generic male" that is common in ads and videos, and many of the words are pronounced wrong. I think he said "Heemy" for "Hemi" once.

[Zeke]

@WD, yeah, I don't watch AI voice overs too much if I can help it. Sometimes I'd rather than hear those rather than someone stumbling over words or poor audio, but just barely.

I posted because I wanted to mention the architecture of the Jaguar I-6 in its few iterations. The bottom end, if kept up, seems to never need attention long after something needs to be done on top. Even the cam and drive is plenty robust. Induction has been a bit tricky all along and although it got much better when Bosch entered the picture, that also came in the period when emissions were at the same time the concern. So coil packs and other sensors were really the only repairs that were needed. Or call it maintenance, but keep the crankcase full and all the trouble was above that if there was trouble

Pretty much all done with cars these days but if there was ever a project left to desire it would have been using the classic XK engine (1948-1992) or stripping off the injection of the later AJ6 and AJ16 motors and installing Webers with possibly a magneto ignition.

Using one of these in a lot of cars I can think of would have been a hoot.

[vash]

The USPS long life vehicle. The Grumman.

That tiny inline-4 that powers it is apparently magic.

[red 928]

n inline engine is easier to balance is is inherently smoother.
The old inline 8s and 12s were so smooth they idled at 450 rpm and you could barely feel any vibration at all as they spooled up.
Silky.

The only reason they went to v6s (which is a sucky design) and v8s was packaging.

Some of the smoothest, best engines ever were inline 6's (jaguar and BMW)

[wdfifteen]

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJantaJdfu/

Don Carr

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by red 928

n inline engine is easier to balance is is inherently smoother.
The old inline 8s and 12s were so smooth they idled at 450 rpm and you could barely feel any vibration at all as they spooled up.
Silky.

Yes, for sure.

A friend of mine, Don Carr, owned this Deusenberg J-476. I didn't have a lot to do with the car other than helping him strip the fenders using a heat gun. But, to the point, it idled so low and so quietly that, sitting in the shop idling, it was just background noise, like a window fan or something.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHJantaJdfu/

Don was quite a character, and he drove the wheels off of his Deusy. He bought my '64 Porsche coupe to drive when the Deusy was down for repairs. Don smoked unfiltered Camels and kept them in a silver cigarette case. It would take him 5 minutes to unpack the cigarettes and load them into the case. Then he would pull one out and tap it against the case 4 or five times before lighting it with a well-worn Zippo. You don't want to know how long it took him to re-fuel the Zippo. His business card had a photo of a toilet and the logo "Honest Carr's Used Johns."