The "Indestructible" Slant 6
You're telling me I blew my own engine up after determining it was a flow problem with the head where it lost all vacuum at a certain rpm and proceeded to fix it and install a $900 turbo set up just to blow the engine up a year or so later after driving it and depending on it every day? Hands off to your logic. The rod failed, whether I had it or someone else did it still would have failed. I don't blow a bunch of money on an engine just to tear it up.
Well sorry, I didn't see anywhere in the linked post that you fixed the issue and then turbo'd the engine. In fact, after reading
all of your posts, I didn't see any mention of a turbo until now, so I'm not really sure how the heck I could have known that.
But I don't think you have to use much logic to figure out that a stock /6 that's chewed up one set of bearings already and was only getting 10mpg might not be the best candidate for a turbo. At least not if you were expecting longevity.
And as far as expensive, you've got to be kidding. I couldn't even sell the mostly running, complete 225 /6 core I had, and it was a forged crank, 5 freeze plug style engine (stronger casting). Wasn't until I offered it up for
FREE that Bill Grissom came by and picked it up from me, although he was nice enough to throw a little money my way. :D And it still had the electronic ignition distributor.
Seriously, just sell that Duster. You seem to hate it, and someone else could drop a running slant in it for about $50 and enjoy it.
