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03-14-2012, 09:32 PM
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Bringing service costs into the modern age......
In 1972 I owned a 1965 Dodge Dart with a 225 cu in Slant Six.
I decided to get the engine rebuilt at a local gas station/ garage.
Total cost, out the door - $750. But then again, the whole car cost me only $650 when I bought it a few months earlier.
In 1972 I owned a 1965 Dodge Dart with a 225 cu in Slant Six.
I decided to get the engine rebuilt at a local gas station/ garage.
Total cost, out the door - $750. But then again, the whole car cost me only $650 when I bought it a few months earlier.
03-14-2012, 09:41 PM
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I can still remember a guy named Duane who drove an entire shift with no oil pressure(light glowing on the dash, gauge sitting on "Zip"), the engine knocking like hell, and after adding five quarts of oil it sounded like a Singer sewing machine again...happy as a clam... and it was still running when I left the cab company a year later.
I'm a Chevy guy, but those 198's and 225's were indestructible, and smooth as butter too.
03-14-2012, 11:14 PM
#14
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Those prices are amazing..
& to the Slant 6, I had a Plymouth Valiant (beater) that had one too.
You couldn't kill that motor..
03-14-2012, 11:22 PM
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From the Wikimon -
The G-engine gained an enviable reputation for reliability and nearly unstoppable durability. The basic engine design incorporates much heavy-duty engineering, in part because the engine was designed from the start to be made of either iron or aluminum: The block is of a deep-skirt design, with the crankshaft axis well above the oil pan rails for structural rigidity. Although only four main bearings are used, they are of the same dimensions as those in the Hemi. Very efficient cooling and lubrication systems, a favorable rod ratio, and an extremely strong forged steel crankshaft (on engines made through mid-1976) all contributed to the engine's apparent indestructibility. In addition, the G-engine also provided better performance than most of its competition in the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1980s, the G-engine had been effectively strangled by continual addition of increasingly restrictive exhaust emission control devices, without upgrades to the combustion chamber design, piston displacement or induction system, all of which were by that time quite antiquated. G-engine use in passenger cars was rapidly phased out in the early 1980s as Chrysler Corporation shifted to front-wheel-drive architecture
Interesting! - I knew these were great motors with a amazing production run of 31 years. I saw one with a HUGE turbo stuffed in a rat rod. Awesome, same main bearing as the Hemi.
The G-engine gained an enviable reputation for reliability and nearly unstoppable durability. The basic engine design incorporates much heavy-duty engineering, in part because the engine was designed from the start to be made of either iron or aluminum: The block is of a deep-skirt design, with the crankshaft axis well above the oil pan rails for structural rigidity. Although only four main bearings are used, they are of the same dimensions as those in the Hemi. Very efficient cooling and lubrication systems, a favorable rod ratio, and an extremely strong forged steel crankshaft (on engines made through mid-1976) all contributed to the engine's apparent indestructibility. In addition, the G-engine also provided better performance than most of its competition in the 1960s and 1970s. By the 1980s, the G-engine had been effectively strangled by continual addition of increasingly restrictive exhaust emission control devices, without upgrades to the combustion chamber design, piston displacement or induction system, all of which were by that time quite antiquated. G-engine use in passenger cars was rapidly phased out in the early 1980s as Chrysler Corporation shifted to front-wheel-drive architecture
Interesting! - I knew these were great motors with a amazing production run of 31 years. I saw one with a HUGE turbo stuffed in a rat rod. Awesome, same main bearing as the Hemi.
03-15-2012, 12:17 PM
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I honestly don't remember what happened to the engine. Maybe overheated? If that's the case, don't know why I didn't just pop for a head job. Hey - I was young....and stupid.
03-15-2012, 06:04 PM
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OK, I will admit that I did crack an exhaust manifold and traded the car in (young $ stupid) but, got another Valiant. I think that all in all I have owned 5 slant six cars and driven for taxi service another 6. Even my Grandfather had a 1961 Dart (3 on the floor), he traded his 1953 Dodge for it.
03-16-2012, 01:03 AM
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Off topic:
On my Valiant, I installed a Rambler front Bench seat. Which could recline totally flat. I made sure it would just touch the rear seat bottom flush.
When fully reclined, it became my nookie mobile..
This was prior to my Vega wagons..
On my Valiant, I installed a Rambler front Bench seat. Which could recline totally flat. I made sure it would just touch the rear seat bottom flush.
When fully reclined, it became my nookie mobile..
This was prior to my Vega wagons..
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