Originally Posted By: StevieC
Originally Posted By: dishdude
No way, the 2.2 was the always the better engine. The 2.6 had a terrible Mikuni carb and a timing chain that was 3 miles long with a bunch of nylon guides. The Carter carb on the 2.2 was no prize, but once it got TBI it was a solid little motor.
Fuel injection is the best thing that ever happened to domestic autos.
I never said the engine was good. We replaced 2 heads and overhauled the whole engine once on top of that to get the 460,000km out of it. It was a big pile of [censored] but the carburettor was never touched aside from the choke diaphragm which was common on them. Ours was an 86.
The Chryco 2.2L / 2.5L with the Holly carbs were absolute garbage and required frequent repairs. When they later replaced it with the Throttle Body Bosch Injection system that was the bees knees.
The 2.2L Turbo early models suffered from head gaskets which they later fixed by drilling holes in the heads/blocks for additional coolant flow to even out temperatures. Turbo bearings were also a problem for Chrysler until they learned from the Japanese how to make them last.
I can't even being to count the 2.5, 2.2, 2.6's and the 3.0L Mitsu V6 my dad and I replaced, rebuilt, repaired from the 1980's to just before the 2000's Then we got into 4 speed transmission rebuilds thanks to a poor design there. We remedied them by modifying the transmissions so it wouldn't go into partial lock-up and also with external coolers. No one could understand why after we rebuilt the transmissions they would last the life of the vehicle but when done at the dealers / other shops they wouldn't last at all.
Hmm... I think they did go back and forth over which was better. I had the 84/85/86 engines. I got the turbo after the 84 went out with the carb. Didn't have a problem with the transmission on the 2.2, but then again, I think the car was done by about 120k or less. The 2.2 turbo was a stick with fuel injection and never had a problem with fuel injection. When I bought it, it had a replacement engine which I thought was a good thing. Then that engine went and I got another one for $500 and had it replaced, did the clutch at the same time. Then when that one blew the head gasket, it was time to give up, had about 140k at time I think. I tried to get another one, but the ones I test drove seemed somewhat slow til I realized that the previous owner had put in an aftermarket turbo computer so it was probably getting more boost than standard which may have lead to the previous two failures. I worked at a place that had a truck scale so I drove the car up on it once and it weighted about 2600 pounds. Now cars weight more like 4000 pounds and they're about the same size.
