Reply to "Oil leaks and oil change"

Stan Galat

I love these engines, but they may be the stupidest mass-produced design ever. Cases split side to side? No oil seal on the pulley end? 3 lousy main journals? No valve-seals?An oiling system only Rube Goldberg could love (oil bypass based on viscosity... seriously)?

Every time somebody starts to blather on about the "Sainted German Engineers", I want to grab their ear and drag them through a small-block Chevy so they can see how a real engine is designed.

It's possible to get them to make a lot of power, live a reasonably long life, and not leak oil by the gallons- but it'll become your life's work. Nobody will care, and sensible people will start to avoid you.

Call me Ishmael.

8/24/1710:08 AM

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