Don't have to be angry to not like something. Go up to the right side of the reply box and click on the brackets. Hovering will show Toggle BB code.....once you click it, go over to the smiles icon and see if it'll drop down.
Another member helped me out on why the smilies weren't working but didn't know what the 'brackets' were. He called them a 'box'. I even had to look up what BB code was lol. And.....most engines were over engineered back then.....but, I wouldn't call the toothpick size rods in the slant over engineered!
You're a savior!!
( but the slant was still over engineered for its design goals..)
She sho is. Big olde fat cam in it (no idea what grind, po installed).that is a rowdy sounding/6 'leaning tower of power'
I disagree.
I have a couple of stories like that with a modified Miata. I like almost all things automotive and want to modify them all.
In 1994 I bought a new 4x4 Jeep Cherokee country. A few weeks later I get a phone call one night from a guy at the Ohio jeep plant asking about my Jeep. It seems Chrysler was trying to shed some weight from it's rotating mass and shortened the skirts on the pistons and now they had created a new problem, piston slap. After warming up, it would stop, but, when it was cold it had a light sound of a diesel. It appears there was a few months window that thousands got out before they caught the problem and I was one of them. I asked what now and his response was, a new engine or whatever would make me happy. It turns out they had several of these Jeep's running non stop at the proving grounds, shift after shift trying for failure. They ran each over 250,000 and never could get any of them to go into a catastrophic failure due to the piston skirt issue. I chose a 100,000 mile, bumper to bumper ten year warranty. I drove it for 70,000 miles and put it in the family carpool, where we kept it as a backup for friends, family and neighbors till it had around 120,000 miles on it. I sold it to a friend for his sixteen year olds first car. They drove it till it had a about a 145,000 miles on it. He sold it to a gal that used it to deliver mail on her rural mail route. I have no idea what happened to it after her. I never did anything to it but replace, cap, rotor, wires, plugs and one crankshaft position sensor. It went thru two teenagers, years as a backup and a mail lady and still came out the other side. I've owned an a** load of Jeeps with that 4.0 in them and never had an engine problem, other problems, but never an engine problem. That engine had been used by AMC for years. Gas milage sucked on all of them.............. LOL
Sure there are guys like you that like cars with four cylinder turbos but you are a minority in the muscle car world which is where I would think the new Charger is aimed at. Back in the late `80`s-early `90`s most muscle cars guys scoffed at Chryslers four banger FWD "crap boxes" and it didn`t matter they were faster than some old V8 muscle cars. I had first hand experience with being an outcast at local Mopar shows driving my ex`s `87 Daytona Turbo Z while my Barracuda was under restoration, it was a fun, pretty fast car that handled great but it just wasn`t a V8 RWD.
