10 American Car Engines that STOOD the Test Of Time!

[@EliasGraves]

A Fiero? Good lord those things were rolling fire bombs!!!

[@maddhatter3564]

yup that proves this guy knows NOTHING about cars.

[@duroshebanja6810]

Iron Duke in the Fiero I had didn’t make it to 75 K miles. The timing gear sheared off teeth. It was a troublesome engine, with a plethora of emission control problems, & prone to mechanical failures.

[@jeremybennett5547]

Seems to do good in the LLV mail trucks

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

2:50 The entire FAMILY the Ford I-6 300ci was part of was robust. Many outlasted the vehicles they were in. Some ended up in semi tractors.

[@2148aa]

not sexy or over powering. But they would get you there all day long.

[@markchapman2585]

I had 1993 F150 4.9 300 it was 4x4 loved it had no problem at all. Just rusted out on me. The engine still ran great when i scrapped 😢

[@markchapman2585]

@@bryan-k2b Great truck. Love the 2 gas tanks great for long runs.

[@nickthompson318]

A little trivia for you. The 1970 396 was actually 402 cubic inches. They kept the 396 name for marketing purposes.

[@marcotelli1601]

Before 1970 only a full size car can have a motor over 400 ci except the corvette. So they called it the 396

[@mikesuch9021]

Insurance was cheaper to

[@7891ph]

The 262 C.I./ 4.3L Chevy V6 deserves at least an honorable mention on this list. As a small block V8 minus two cylinders, they're known for being almost indestructible in the commercial truck applications, and also showed up in some full sized cars as well. My 2000 GMC Jimmy has the last generation and has almost 180,000 miles on the clock and runs like new.

[@bradzimmerman3171]

A 4.3L,No not true

[@fido139]

Ford original 302 V8, and Ford Vulcan 3.0 liter V6, they were bulletproof.

[@ogcowboy5743]

Pretty good lineup. The 4.3 liter Chevrolet V6 was a Chevy 5.7 with two cylinders chopped off, also a good engine. The 3.9 liter Chrysler V6 was a Chrysler 5.2 with two cylinders chopped off, also a good engine. Also the Dodge 360/5.9 V8 LA and Magnums are good, reliable, durable engines. Weren't the Forn 360 and 390 cubic inch engines also pretty good?

[@kennethcohagen3539]

Early 396’s were known for losing their cam sprockets that were made of nylon. GM started putting metal gears in them, overbored them .030” at the factory and called them 400’s or 402’s. The Iron Duke 2.5 liter engine was junk from the start. In the desert southwest they were prone to crack cylinder heads and were extremely unreliable because of that. Pontiac came out with a thicker casting for performance applications, but they were no used in production cars, like the Fiero and Chevy Citation.

[@davekulman8195]

The Ford 289/302

[@lilibethdoherty295]

1986 and up EFI 302 was Smooth as Silk , it made lots of Torque and even got better mileage than my Ford 3.8 V6 which was not smooth at all.

[@andrewdonohue1853]

I have 2 3800s one of them a Bonneville ssei, l67 supercharged. Fantastic engine

[@cjespers]

The early Buick V-6s had an aluminum timing cover with a rope?!? seal. Yes. Bizarre, but actually had few problems. Later models got a "real" timing cover seal.

[@jeremybennett5547]

The ford 300 i6 is quite literally the motor that can throw a rod and put a hole in the side of the block and still get you home😂

[@Nothing-ox3oy]

Sounds like jason Mendoza from the good place

[@courtneypuzzo2502]

the turbo 3.8 l V6 in the 1987 Buick GNX is known to be a great engine a friend of my aunt Barbara's has a GNX for over 30 yrs though he eventually sold it for about 200k a few years ago due to the rarity of the car only 547 units were made for that 1 model year. granted there are currently 8 on sale near me ranging in price from 38,000 to 286,000 original sticker price in 87 was 30,000 for the GNX while the regal its based off of had a starting sticker price of around 17,000 that particular model year

[@stevenodell4798]

Chevrolet 216 stovebolt.

[@Toolaholic7]

The slant six was used in industrial applications also.The 4.0,piston skirts broke in the 1999 to 2004 years.Was repairable if caught in time replacing the piston.The 2v Ford modular engines are trash,one is they have oil pump problems seizing the bottom end up.See a lot of the Small Block Chevrolets in the older Ford street rods and hot rods due to them dirt cheap to build and much more easier to get parts for

[@dmandman9]

The 2v modular engines commonly last 300,000 miles or more. If one fails before 250,000 miles, it’s considered early failure.

[@Toolaholic7]

@@dmandman9 The 2 valves have that problem if maintained too.They are horrible to work and most shops say no to getting inside of them.I did work on one 4.6 and no more,horrible pain in the ass to work on

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

Missing the Ford 4.3 V6. Used in the early 2000s in E series vans among other places. *500,000* is not uncommon for these engines, outliving the I-300 they replaced in Ford's engine lineup. It's not ucommon to have to get the TRANSMISSION rebuild twice before the engine needs a refresh.

[@donaldsalkovick396]

That is not what the slant 6 sounds like lmao that's a v8. The fiero does not have a motor up front like your thumbnail suggests either

[@greenmachine5487]

I came here to see if he got called out for the front-engine Fiero thumbnail

[@maddhatter3564]

wrong, its exactly what a slant sounds like with the right exhaust.

[@fredcloud9668]

289/302

[@maddhatter3564]

This video is what happens when youve never seen any of these cars in real life and only go with what youve read about them. That would be forgivable if the cars were from the 30s 40s or 50s, but not modern cars.

[@minnesotatomcat]

How dare they put a 90 horsepower motor in a Camaro 🤣

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

The original Mustang and original Thunderbird had engines of similar power available.

[@lilibethdoherty295]

GM was trying to entice unknowing Consumers with the low price of the 2.5 Liter 4 Cylinder Camaro that was in reality just a Rolling Turd.

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

@@lilibethdoherty295 Given the Mustang had a 2.3 Liter 4 as It's base engine at the same time - it wasn't just GM.

[@lilibethdoherty295]

@@bricefleckenstein9666 I parked cars in the 80's and a regular customer had the 2.3 in his Convertible Mustang and it was a great car I parked it in just 1/2 a Parking Space !

[@bricefleckenstein9666]

@@lilibethdoherty295 I had the 2.3 in a 1986 Mustang for a while. Made plenty of power for a fairly light car like that, though it wasn't anywhere near a "stoplight winner". And that was with 89 net HP (about 120 foot pounds). The Camaro suffered comparatively as it tended to be about 10% more weight than the same year Mustangs of that era.

[@timmonson6089]

The Iron Duke 2.5 was a pos. Burned down Firio. Steal crank gear nylon cam gear. Knocked like hell.

[@edwardpate6128]

Steal?

[@frankleespeaking9519]

I know. This engine should not be on this list. Is this guy for real?

[@victorwanstreet3038]

@@frankleespeaking9519 great engine in rear wheel drrive simple to repair front wheel drive not so easy . all engines were using nylon on the cam gears

[@jeremybennett5547]

Seems to do well in the LLV mail trucks🤷‍♂️

[@mikesuch9021]

Don't like the AI voice