"James Goforth" wrote
Why isn't it the case? I worked on those engines for years and they most certainly were not much more then an Olds gas engine that had been beefed up in certain places.....obviously the heads would have different combustion chambers, but they used the identical style of valve train as the gas engine. Hey, they beefed up the crankshaft, guess that's why we had tons of them with crankshafts broken right in half.
There were "nonstop" problems with this engine from beginning to almost the end. The last version wasn't bad...but as GM is famous for....as soon as you fix it, phase it out.
Not even close. Oh, they might have "designed" it that way, but it rarely worked that way in reality.
Ian