Great Engines

[ls1mike]

Originally Posted By: Clevy
The 2.2 Mitsubishi engine that was in some chryslers were pretty tough too.

That was the 2.6 Hemi, yes hemi. It was a pile.

The 2.2 and 2.5 were Mopar designed losely based off a VW 1.8.
The VW Motor was actually the first engine used in the Dodge Omni.
2.6 hemi

Head design

Mopar 2.2 Turbo

 

[afoulk]

Originally Posted By: ls1mike
Originally Posted By: Clevy
The 2.2 Mitsubishi engine that was in some chryslers were pretty tough too.

That was the 2.6 Hemi, yes hemi. It was a pile.

The 2.2 and 2.5 were Mopar designed losely based off a VW 1.8.
The VW Motor was actually the first engine used in the Dodge Omni.
2.6 hemi

Head design

Mopar 2.2 Turbo

Now that you say that, I do see a bit of a resemblence between the old chrysler 4's and the VW 1.8's. Never really thought about it before

 

[Clevy]

Originally Posted By: ls1mike
Originally Posted By: Clevy
The 2.2 Mitsubishi engine that was in some chryslers were pretty tough too.

That was the 2.6 Hemi, yes hemi. It was a pile.

The 2.2 and 2.5 were Mopar designed losely based off a VW 1.8.
The VW Motor was actually the first engine used in the Dodge Omni.
2.6 hemi

Head design

Mopar 2.2 Turbo

I had one of those Mitsubishi engines in a minivan that I used to haul tools. I got it with 200000 on it. Ran great. That van saw nothing but city traffic. Never a highway run. I changed the oil when the dummy light came on. Usually 2 quarts tops drained out and it was tar. I put 200000 on that van myself,always full of tools. It had over 400000 on it when the mto pulled it off the road because the rust was so bad and resembled Swiss cheese.
What you call a pile I called my livelihood for 6 years. I tried to kill that engine. It would not die. I'm sure the sludge was so bad there was no oil getting to the top end as the audible tap sure sounded dry.
Served me well. Got the van for 600 bucks and all I did was put gas in it. Maybe 6 oil changes total,in 200000kms.
The engine ran fine when I drive it on the flatbed anyways.

 

[ls1mike]

You got lucky. The K-cars and vans with that motor were even worse the than the 2.2/2.5.
I am glad you had good luck with it. I am a GM/Mopar guy, Love the 2.2/2.5, but the 2.6 was loud, required more maintenace than the 2.2/2.5 and general made poor power as compared to the 2.2/2.5.
For it's time there were a ton of better 4 cyls out there.

 

[ls1mike]

Originally Posted By: Clevy

I had one of those Mitsubishi engines in a minivan that I used to haul tools. I got it with 200000 on it. Ran great. That van saw nothing but city traffic. Never a highway run. I changed the oil when the dummy light came on. Usually 2 quarts tops drained out and it was tar. I put 200000 on that van myself,always full of tools. It had over 400000 on it when the mto pulled it off the road because the rust was so bad and resembled Swiss cheese.
What you call a pile I called my livelihood for 6 years. I tried to kill that engine. It would not die. I'm sure the sludge was so bad there was no oil getting to the top end as the audible tap sure sounded dry.
Served me well. Got the van for 600 bucks and all I did was put gas in it. Maybe 6 oil changes total,in 200000kms.
The engine ran fine when I drive it on the flatbed anyways.

Let me ask you this.What year was it? Because you could get the 2.2/2.5/or 2.6 in the van. Your original post said 2.2 which was the Mopar engine. A lot of people like to call it a Mistu, but it is not.

For your reading pleasure.
http://www.allpar.com/fix/26.html

 

[morris]

i have seen chrysler B, RB engines take a ton of mistreatment and keep going. course some set a lot of racing records.

 

[aquariuscsm]

GM 3800 and Nissan VG.

 

[dave1251]

I prefer the Ford Modular family but it is hard to find a dog for a engine these days.

 

[Azeem]

Ford's 302 is legendery,I ran the truck 3.5 quarts low on oil like a dork because I didn't check oil for 4 months burning oil a quart every 1000 miles and still running with current owner with 30x K miles.


Chevy 6.0 L.

 

[apwillard1986]

Vortec 4.3 V6... but I am biased.

 

[raffy]

I'll throw a vote in for the Honda 3.5L V6. I have two of these, one in an Odyssey with over 100K miles, the other in a Ridgeline with about 33K (not even broken in yet, LOL). Got a very nice UOA on the Odyssey recently, will try to post it here soon. These engines have a good reputation for going well over 200K without major issues.

 

[artificialist]

Practically every Nissan engine made before 1995 was good. After 1995, some were still very good:
VQ30
VQ35
KA24DE
SR20DE
RB26DETT
VG30DETT

 

[morris]

"A Ford's 302 is legendery" barging about a engine that uses lots of oil??????

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: morris
"A Ford's 302 is legendery" barging about a engine that uses lots of oil??????


I've owned several, none of which used a lot of oil. Now, they could drink oil through the PCV screen if one wasn't of the mind to replace it... But that's hardly the fault of the engine

 

[Spazdog]

Originally Posted By: Tdbo
Ford 3.0 vulcan


There it is! took me a couple of pages to find it.

It's such an unremarkable engine stat-wise but they do go.

Right now, as we speak, someone in the rust-belt just attempted to negotiate a speed bump in his or her Ranger/B3000 and the rest of the truck disintegrated into a pile of reddish brown dust leaving only the driver and a still running Vulcan,

The Mazda FEs, Honda F22s, and Toyota 22Rs are pretty good too. Also unremarkable stat-wise but there are a ton of high mileage CB7 Accords, B2200s, and Toyota pickups still running.

I'll add in the K-VIN Chevrolet TBI 350. Lots of those trucks go very high mileage.

 

[afoulk]

Originally Posted By: Spazdog
Originally Posted By: Tdbo
Ford 3.0 vulcan


There it is! took me a couple of pages to find it.

It's such an unremarkable engine stat-wise but they do go.

Right now, as we speak, someone in the rust-belt just attempted to negotiate a speed bump in his or her Ranger/B3000 and the rest of the truck disintegrated into a pile of reddish brown dust leaving only the driver and a still running Vulcan,

The Mazda FEs, Honda F22s, and Toyota 22Rs are pretty good too. Also unremarkable stat-wise but there are a ton of high mileage CB7 Accords, B2200s, and Toyota pickups still running.

I'll add in the K-VIN Chevrolet TBI 350. Lots of those trucks go very high mileage.

Buddy of mine at work has a ranger with one of those in it, has almost 350,000miles on it and still runs like a top. Rest of the truck suprisingly isn't in bad shape either, atleast rust wise.

 

[neilLB7]

Volkswagen 1300cc air-cooled flat 4. And the Ford Model-T 177ci 4 cylinder.

 

[HerrStig]

The Chevy 283 and the 302 Trans Am version were pretty good. Never liked the 283 exhaust manifold though. It's what headers were made for. I always figured Mitsi to make pretty good stuff but a lot of the engines sold to Chrysler had valve guide or seal problems and smoked a lot. I knew a fair number of owners who ran 20-50 year round (in THIS climate) just to keep the consumption down.

 

[zerosoma]

Mitsubishi/Hyundai Sigma



well...maybe.

 

[morris]

OK OVERKILL. you reminded of something odd about my chryslers, i was young and not understanding cars. my dad had a 1960 ply 318 engine. if he filled engine oil it to the full mark it would burn a QT. but if left a QT down it stayed there. i dont know if that was common.