So you retaliate by making fun of GM cars.

If you haven't read my sig...I have a Pontiac, a Mazda and a Nissan....hmmmmm Think about that one

 

If you really want to talk about car problems:

Nissan 350z's burn oil, blow trannies and feather tires
Toyota Tundra's snap camshafts and crankshafts
the list goes on

no car is perfect

 

Isn't the 2jz a cast iron engine as well?

 

only poor people and hippies worry about gas mileage

 

"So you retaliate by making fun of GM cars.

If you haven't read my sig...I have a Pontiac, a Mazda and a Nissan....hmmmmm Think about that one"

ehh rather not.
if it makes you feel any better i've owned 3 ford products too.
and yea those have given me plenty of problems too.
and left me stranded.

cougar xr7 3.8 s/c ball joint broke twice. tranny stated slipping headgasket started going too.
other two cars were sable ls with the 3.8 motors too.
tranny went out in one of em.
sub frame decided to give out on the other one.

they had other issues as well.

i just thought as a maxima member i would rather share my joy on this car.
out of all the cars the maxima took most of the beatings, then the acura legend. i never dogged the domestic cars.

i used to love gm's...hell still do...somewhat. lol.

 

yea i heard about those.
amazed at the toyota.

and i did'nt which cars are perfect. i agree with you on that. but some cars have more problems than others

 

That made me ROTFL!


I fell in love with Nissan v6's before I fell in love with the VQ. My first cool car (aka a non GM that wasn't a free hand me down) was a turbo Z31, that thing was a basketcase ratbox that had been slammed and banged more times then jenna jameson (But still looked great inside and out to!) I wouldn't be suprised if it was totalled close to as many times as it had owners, which I think was around 7, everything on it had been replaced, and for the most part from the wrong year or non-turbo. The rearend was blown, every bushing was shot, the turbo was junk, the motor was beat, the tranny would act up, and according to carfax in addition to all the accidents and owners it also had odometer fraud, which I wouldn't doubt because the mass title said salvage rebuilt AND odometer discrepency. But it was still fast, fun, and NEVER left me stranded.

 

MEE TOO!!!!1

 

lol it was actually so cool to see they mentioned the VG30E in the game. I must have pumped at least $200 in that game by now

 

I loved my maxima....but man there is bigger game out there, so I had to realize everything wasn't about a maxima.

In all honestly I love the 3rd gens more then 5th and 4th gens

 

I still own them.
I cant sell any of my babies.

Please refer to post #29
Please refer to post #29
Yes it is, if you like to go in a straight line please disregard, if you would like to turn at anypoint, Please refer to post #29
I iz a poor peoplez, and I luv mother earth........I f'ed her twice yesterday
404 failz

I didn't know the S/C on a XR7 had a ball joint? I thought that was on the control arm somewhere.

If you haven't noticed yet, we don't talk about feelings here, only ridicule and rape.

 

sorry, try again

 

sorry i should've typed it like this: cougar s/c xr7. the ball joint failed on me twice.lol.

and yes i noticed ya'll ridicule and rape.


cars owned miles i got rid of at
1991 beretta gtz v6. (172000mi)
1991 mercury sable ls 3.8.(115000mi)
1990 mercury cougar xr7. (138000mi)
1986 honda accord lx (386000mi)
1994 mercury sable ls 3.8. (110000mi)
1989 honda accord se-i (286000mi)
1989 acura legend ls (256000mi)
1994 pontiac grand am gt v6 (180000mi)
1992 nissan maxima se (162000)

 

Nice work. A+!

 

Yes the VG was and is a great or Very Good motor even when they started to put 4 valves and VTC for the VG30DE, but yea if you look how many VG's were used you have the VG30E, VG30I, VG30ET, VG30DETT VG33E, VG33ER, as for the cast iron block, made of high nickle content iron made a motor that would take just about anything you could throw at it, all you have to do to add a bunch power was open it up on the intake and exhaust. Hey it was good enough for this car
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_GTP_ZX-Turbo

 

Yeah, I got one of dem too.
I see some cars in there that I would not be proud of, but I will say that I have driven a GTZ Beretta, and its not too sh!ty of a car. I've been trying to find one as a 24hoursoflemons car.

I have:
96 Turbo Maxima The ****-Box-O Death
95 Miata type R E-Stock autocross car
90 Miata V6 project car
89 Firebird Dads old car
02 Ram 2500 4x4 To pull the other POS's
93 Camry Daily beater
91 Escort GT 24 hours of lemons race car

 

so then you know iron block does not = auto fail.... you could pull your house w/ that thing.

 

lol. i know but the cougar was free from my uncle.
the 94 sable was i think $100.
the body was mint had about 90k on it.
the motor and trans was new.
fully loaded.
the subframe rotted out so the rear of the engine was a bit down more.

the gtz i got...well the car looked fantastic.
it was blue with 16 inch broze colored rims.
it had *****. but it just kept giving me problems.

i used to hate imports with a passion.
it was the 1986 accord lx that got me into imports.
body was beat to death it sat in my friends uncle garage for about a year without being started.
$300 and a new (used)battery later she was up and running.
lost that one in an accident.
but had to get another accord.
i came accross a 89 se-i. moonroof, bose, leather interior (looked kinda crappy).
all it needed was a new distributor (junkyard) and again $300 she was mine.
this was the only import that kept giving me problems.
coil kept busting. so i bought a msd coil. fan timer kept screwing up (learned how to solder). cat clogged up.
there were other problems but the radiator busting convinced me to buy another car.

thats where the acura legend came in. i loved that car.
thats when i really got into imports.
i kinda acted stupid in that car.
countless of nuetral drops. then i made a stupid move by pouring seafoam (without draing the engine restore) into crankcase which blew out the engine.
replaced the engine.
and couple months later the trans started going out.

which led me to the grand am gt.
as weird as it may sound thats what i wanted my first car to be. but that turned out to be a nightmare.

which led me to the 92 maxima. i was trying to get a legend this lady was selling but she kept being an ***. my mom seen the maxima and suggested i should look into since it seems my dad hardly has any problems with his...

 

Iron block in a passenger car=fail
Iron block in a turbo diesel truck=FTMFW!!!!

Do not split hairs with me sir

 

fixed

 

Fixed again.

 

I've had

1995 Plymouth Neon DOHC
1987 Supercharged thunberbird
1996 Saturn SL2 Turbo'd
2000 Nissan Maxima
1992 **** box s10 (250,000 miles and still running)
2004 Grand prix GTP

 

please list passenger cars that had aluminum blocks from 1769 till 1990 please

 

lol. i was at one point considering buying a neon dohc.

 

 

1961 Buick


The SR20 come out in 1989 in the Bluebird:


But the real answer you are looking for is the 1969 427CI ZL1 that was in the CAN Am Camaros, and Corvettes.

 

so you came up with one US passenger production car one JDM car and a sports car.

 

you only need 2 for a list

how many do you want?

 

Your original question is ****, so I humored you anyway. Truth be told, there werent that many cars made before 1990 that had aluminum motors, simply because they could not properly design them using computer aided simulation software to where they would cool properly and not warp. Cast iron was used because it was cheap, and could take a lot of abuse, hence the reason aluminum diesels are just now being produced.

 

oh i left two more cars out. 1990 pontiac grand prix se (with compass, oil change reminder etc.)
1993 acura integra gs.

 

so how can you say that a iron block car is a auto fail?

 

bc nearly all the cars built in the 80s = fail

 

what does it have to do with the 80s I'm sure that there was cars before then that had iron blocks, but I could be wrong.

 

there were plenty of cars in the 60s and 70s that didnt suck

 

:rozt: This is all based on my opinion, I'm sorry I insulted your grandmothers Reatta. I like to turn, a 460 big block is not condusive to my passion.

The front of a Maxima is heavy enough, a iron block does not help=FAIL

 

yea the weight thing is not the best but hey having a bit heavier motor is better then having a unreliable one right and yea the 2nd gen had a whole 10lb (from what i could find but I think the spec list for the 2nd gen on here is off i'll have to look when I get home) on the 4th gen. As for my grandmother well they were both dead before I was born so they would have no way been able to own one.