[SunRescue] Dodge vehicles

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The "perfect" 4?  You refer to the 2.2 and 2.4 of K-car heritage?  Nothing
more than Slant-6's sans 2 cylinders.  To wit, perfected long long before.
;)

I still wanna buy my neighbors Challenger, but it's only got the
318(ick)...

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On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Michael Free wrote:

> sounds like the mitsubishi 2.6 engine....they used 'em in the front drive
> cars in the early eighties before chrysler had perfected their own four....
> which rocks, BTW...I drive one, dodge shadow.
> 
> Check this guy out
> http://dodgegarage.www2.50megs.com
> he has a turbo 86 plymouth reliant that runs 10's in the quarter at 120MPH+
> 
> Mike Free
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wa2egp at att.net <wa2egp at att.net>
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Saturday, March 31, 2001 12:24 AM
> Subject: Re: [SunRescue] Dodge vehicles
> 
> 
> >  You were lucky.  My friend had one and the timing
> >chain "went".  Actually a plastic pin that held a guide
> >for the timing chain (which was still metal) wore, the
> >guide slipped and the chain fell off and jammed.  He had
> >to disassemble the engine.  It was amusing that during
> >the process when the engine was out of the car, the car
> >computer decided to announce there was an engine
> >malfunction ;->
> >> Hi All.
> >>
> >> Nothing can kill the Dodge Diplomat! I used to run a fleet of taxicabs,
> >> and the only cars I would use were Dodge Diplomat ex-police cars! You
> >> just can't kill them! In the fleet I was leased thru there were 3 of us
> >> that owned most of the fleet, I had 12 Diplomats, one guy had nothing
> >> but Chevy Caprices, and the last guy had nothing but Ford /Mercury Crown
> >> Vics / Marquis.  I generally paid 1/4 of what the other guys paid per
> >> car, and had 1/4 the mechanical problems with them too! I sold off most
> >> of the cabs when I moved to TN, but I brought 4 of them up here with me,
> >> and started (and fairly quickly closed) a small cab company here. I
> >> still own 2 of the Diplomats (although I might sell one of them, I got
> >> TOO many cars!), and my main vehicle is a Dodge Ram 1 ton diesel dually.
> >> The only thing I got that's not 100% chrysler is a 79 Jeep, but since
> >> the buyout, I guess it's retroactively a Chrysler product now :)
> >>
> >> The newest Diplomat I had was an 87 (this was just a couple of years
> >> ago), and the earliest was an 82, and they regularly were MUCH more
> >> reliable than the 90 chevys the other guy was using! I never had any
> >> problems with computers or sensors going bad (well, ok, one computer did
> >> die on me), but the Chevy's and Fords were always having sensor
> >> troubles. Of course there's no harder test of a car than making it a
> >> cab, they run 24/7 and actually get harder use than a police car does!
> >>
> >> Back onto the topic of computers, mentioning the rackmount drive trays,
> >> I have one in my SS690, but it only had 4 drives in it rather than the 6
> >> it could hold (this is the tray that holds 6 5.25" differential drives),
> >> anyone know where I can get the brackets that mount the drives into it,
> >> as I currently added the last 2 drives, but without proper mounting
> >> brackets I just have them sitting on old mousepads in the box, and I'd
> >> like to fix that. Thanks.
> >>
> >> -Mike
> >>
> >> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 11:37:00PM -0800, James Lockwood wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > On a trip up to San Jose from L.A., I managed to pack 8 of the large
> Sun
> >> > > rackmount drive trays into my '78 Dodge Diplomat (4D sedan), plus 2
> >> > > passengers and a bunch of extra drives. That included about 60 5.25"
> FH
> >> > > hard drives with a total weight of well over half a ton.
> >> >
> >> > Ah yes, the famous "dodge4d" architecture.
> >> >
> >> > I have found Chrysler products ugly and cheap, but quite good at
> holding
> >> > lots of stuff.  I often drove a Caravan ("minimax" architecture) around
> with
> >> > up to about 4000 pounds of stuff in it when I worked for my family's
> business.
> >> >
> >> > Cordially
> >> >
> >> > Patrick Giagnocavo
> >> > patrick at zill.net
> >> >
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