So what is the worst engine you can remember either owning or seeing?

I meen, there a few lemons out there, so lets hear it.

 

Mabye it was unreliable? or mabye it was just slow?

 

I'm gonna kick this off by listing the 'Starfire engine'. They were found in

early model Commodores, Coronas and verious other vehicles, I just bought

a corona with a Starfire engine (more like a startfire!). Its by far the slowest

smokiest peice of dog shit ive ever driven, and it has a timing chain rattle that

would give off the impression that its had a hand full of washers dropped down

each bore. Absolute rubbish! :jamie:

Anything by Mitsubishi in the 80's. I wonder how they survived? Their whole fleet were rubbish. Also the Holden Camira. The only Aussie build FWD Holden and it was a Lemon. You still see them around tho.

GM 3800

Opel/Daewoo family II series (all of them)

Nissan RB25

Nissan ZD series diesel

 

oh and everything made by Mitsubishi, with the exception of the 4G63B.

Whatever the engine was in the TC Pulsar......

 

Only engine I've ever come across I could blow up inside of 3 days of what I call normal use.......

 

Oh, and whatever the heavy piece of junk boat anchor was that blew up in the Triton...... Never before then had I seen 6 shattered rocker arms in one engine.......

Rebuild, pop, rebuild, pop, rebuild, sell......

 

*edit* I'd like to point out that at no point have I ever owned or considered owning a Triton, they are too much like a car to drive, lack ground clearance, and apparently explode at the very thought of work.....

Edited November 27, 200916 yr by Toy-Yoda

Anything by Mitsubishi in the 80's. I wonder how they survived? Their whole fleet were rubbish. Also the Holden Camira. The only Aussie build FWD Holden and it was a Lemon. You still see them around tho.

 

The Camira, lest we forget. lol

 

And the f@$kin triton! what a rubbish rubbish heavy as vehicle!

Edited November 27, 200916 yr by KETURBO25

Umm... who made/makes the Triton... :jamie:

Umm... who made/makes the Triton... :jamie:

 

Lol, Mitsubishi...pretty much the creator of everything that is rubbish.

While a fair enough statement in and of itself, this was a mid-nineties Triton and it was nothing but a lemon right from the go......

 

Since then I've avoided the three diamonds like the plague......

GM 3800

Opel/Daewoo family II series (all of them)

Nissan RB25

Nissan ZD series diesel

 

oh and everything made by Mitsubishi, with the exception of the 4G63B.

 

HUUUUUHHHHHHHH?????

Yeah shades said mitsi's evo engines are ok. But how much development would have gone into those.

 

Speaking of '80 mitsi engines - That what these new Great Wall utes have in them!!! 1984 Magna motors!! :jamie:

Whatever the engine was in the TC Pulsar......

 

Only engine I've ever come across I could blow up inside of 3 days of what I call normal use.......

 

That would be the Opel family II :jamie:

 

For such a diabolically unreliable engine, they sure did shove it in a lot of cars.

 

 

 

I was burned by the first Mitsubishi I ever encountered (with the fanTASTIC Astron II engine no less) and in the decades since I've given them countless chances to redeem themselves, but no.

 

Every single one has been garbage.

HUUUUUHHHHHHHH?????

 

They're rubbish.

 

Stock = slow and unrefined.

Modified = Thrashy, noisy, and unreliable.

 

The RB20 is an infinitely better engine.

Yeah shades said mitsi's evo engines are ok. But how much development would have gone into those.

 

Speaking of '80 mitsi engines - That what these new Great Wall utes have in them!!! 1984 Magna motors!! :jamie:

 

Yep... Astron derivative, originally sold by Mitsubishi to Proton, and now to Great Wall.

 

So not only was it a tragic engine to begin with, but now the Malaysians have fiddled with it, and now the Chinese have found a way to produce it with undoubtedly substandard quality.

They're rubbish.

 

Stock = slow and unrefined.

Modified = Thrashy, noisy, and unreliable.

 

The RB20 is an infinitely better engine.

 

Yes but this is the "WORST ENGINE EVER" thread. It may not meet your exacting standards but it isn't hopeless trash.

 

 

I suspect you're just trolling anyway.

1750 leyland marina engine

slow and noisy and with su carbs that went out of tune on a minute by minute basis

backed by the WEAKEST gearbox in history

dorp a skid in ANY GEAR and that gear became permenantly unavailable from then on...

drove mine for 3 mths .. 2 engines and 4 gearboxes .. then SOLD to some smuck