No disrespect Mike, but they were built on the assembly line that I first supported when I got to the engine plant in 97....
In 98 they split the 3.5 off to a separate assembly line and added the 3.2 L based off that engine...
I used to get the weekly dyno reports for all of the engines built at our plant... All of the v6's dyno'ed about 30-40 HP less than advertised... I asked the head of Engine Design why my engines dyno'ed that much below advertised HP and his reply was, "We built ONE that made that much HP"...
I told him that as a customer I don't care what they can build one to make, I want to know what the engine in MY CAR puts out... And they should advertise the actual numbers that the production engines are putting out, not what a hand built prototype can do...
Not like the good old days where they advertised the 340's at 275 HP and they put out more...
