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To: taildragger

Hope so. But this is the same company that gave us the 4-6-8 Cadillac engine in 80-81 and the “all aluminum diesel” pickup motor that had just about 12 ounces of stump pulling torque.


32 posted on 09/16/2008 6:16:56 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Actually, that aluminum Duramax’s problem wasn’t the power it produced, which was actually competitive at the time. The problem was that you couldn’t really mod it much AND it tended to blow headgaskets. And they combined that with a bad gearing selection so the truck was never really in its powerband at any point you needed it to be.

But it had an Allison® transmission! /sarc.


34 posted on 09/16/2008 6:22:35 AM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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