Just a little tweak, sir.Not many people doubt the R version of the 350 if it has never been driven or used only extremely seldomly has increased in value disproportionately to routine car prices. Thatās been witnessed.
Meh, itās a little over the top to call the car/engine a POS, as well.I don't really agree. It's easy to Monday-AM quarterback this now but shit happens and while even the title of the thread suggests that he was aware of the undeniable (argue if it's valid or not) public perception that some of these engines have had issues - it's a little over the top to grill the guy as if he should have expected this to happen. What we should all expect is to just put gas in the car and drive it. Yes, this is in the family of engines that we have learned needs a little bit of extra care and feeding but it's never a good time when the worst happens.
OK Mr. Dee Nyall.Meh, itās a little over the top to call the car/engine a POS, as well.
Built 02/2020Was it built during the pandemic?
Holy shit is it ever amazing how people can 1 - bring up stuff the thread isnāt even about and 2 - really have no idea what they are even saying, no matter the context.I think Ford screwed the pooch on the crank design. Wanting to be original they went up,dn,up,dn instead of the proven up,dn,dn,up throw arrangement.
I think this caused harmonics that are not compensated for, hence a higher failure rate.
Something caused the oil filters to unscrew. There is no evidence this failure is due to an incompetent builder.Holy shit is it ever amazing how people can 1 - bring up stuff the thread isnāt even about and 2 - really have no idea what they are even saying, no matter the context.
you mistake dealer mechanics as giving a damn about 'why' and especially in the light of they being prohibited by Ford to do an actual tear-down. And at this point, short of the tensioner STILL managing to be stuck in the retracted position you can't possibly ascertain it's condition just prior to engine failure.OP, good luck with your replacement. If you happen to so much as lift a vocal cord to inquire of the servicing department about the status of the tensioners, thatād likely take one possibility of failure off the list, or possibly nail it down.
I suspect GM has better and more thorough engineers. If for no other reason than they've watched Ford make fools of themselves and they'd rather avoid the same self-inflected gun shot.GM is using a traditional flat crank approach in the C8.
Where did you obtain your engineering degree? You sure do make a lot of stuff up. Youāre a joke.I suspect GM has better and more thorough engineers. If for no other reason than they've watched Ford make fools of themselves and they'd rather avoid the same self-inflected gun shot.
IMO Ford Engine design needs to (re)learn a fundamental lesson - Just because (you think) you can, doesn't mean you should. All that positive accolades for doing the "unthinkable" has right or wrong been significantly tarnished and Ferrari et. al. are sniggering into their Espresso about those dumb Americans who think they are smarter than everyone else...
Ford has no race program worth a damn, and they haven't raced the Voodoo for years before they had the crazy notion to sell it to the general public. On that front GM is vastly more wise/sensible. Maybe GM's FP-crank Z06 will be a spectacular failure in reliability too and if so they will richly deserve the column inches of ridicule heaped upon their heads.
With respect to GM engineers and their thoroughness, I submit the following:I suspect GM has better and more thorough engineers. If for no other reason than they've watched Ford make fools of themselves and they'd rather avoid the same self-inflected gun shot.
IMO Ford Engine design needs to (re)learn a fundamental lesson - Just because (you think) you can, doesn't mean you should. All that positive accolades for doing the "unthinkable" has right or wrong been significantly tarnished and Ferrari et. al. are sniggering into their Espresso about those dumb Americans who think they are smarter than everyone else...
Ford has no race program worth a damn, and they haven't raced the Voodoo for years before they had the crazy notion to sell it to the general public. On that front GM is vastly more wise/sensible. Maybe GM's FP-crank Z06 will be a spectacular failure in reliability too and if so they will richly deserve the column inches of ridicule heaped upon their heads.