Worst engines ever.

[rp23g7]

I knew there was another engine I missed..Furd Exploder 4.0 SOHC engine...5 Timing chains one of which, the engine has to come out to replace it in the REAR of engine...

Yeah, i have one, a 99 no problems with the chain yet, but i added the restrictor and had to do the manifold gasket fix.  Whe the heck they made the intak in two pieces is beyond me.   I was taking it apart and couldnt see any reason for it.  They made that engine way more complicated than it needed to be.

That's to keep people like the ones on this forum from working on their own cars in the back yard like they did 30 years ago...The "Shadetree" meck-a-neck is long gone....

Yeah, well who ever designed it are idiots.  Nice place for a oil drain plug too, without a piece of cardboard to block it, oil goes all over the control arm when you drain it.  It is getting way better milage now without a huge vacume leak when cold.  It can go a week on half a tank of gas now.

[Nacho-RT74]

Mopar 400



Todd

low HP ( just because lower compression ) doesn't mean WORST or BAD engine if you ask me. It is same than a 383. Raise the compresion to same than 383 and will get more Juice of it than the 383.

[ITSA426]

My wife had two Buicks with the non turbo 3.8.  They each went well over 200,000.  One is still running and her kid is driving it.  They seem to go until the body rots away from the car from Northern salt damage.  The 2000 did have a recall for an intake problem but Buick took car of it.  It took over 400,000 miles before I could get her into a Dodge.  Now I'm concerned that the bar might be kinda high, but the Charger has even better creature features than the Regal.

[ACUDANUT]

Mopar 400



Todd

low HP ( just because lower compression ) doesn't mean WORST or BAD engine if you ask me. It is same than a 383. Raise the compresion to same than 383 and will get more Juice of it than the 383.

The 383's are to times better engines than the smog 400's.  I believe the 383's had forged cranks as well.

[69rtse4spd]

7. Chrysler/Mitsubishi 3.0 V6...Burned oil right off the lot..

Every time I am sitting at a light, and see a big puff of white smoke several cars ahead of me, I always think to myself early 90's Chrysler minivan. Those are good for one thing. A mosquito fogger.

Valve guides would drop down, hence the puff of smoke at the light. Had a 87 Caravan 3.0, did a valve job on it, got 240,000 out of it before the tranny went out again. Picked up a 93, rolled it, have a 98 now with the 3.3, will hit 270,000 tomorrow, never had the engine apart. One quart of oil ever 3000 miles, change it every 3000- 6500, use it more than my pickup. Would not think twice about buying another one with the 3.3 or 3.8, or one with mostly highway miles on it, as long as it was taken care of. In fact have one in mind, but they do not have 100,000 on it yet. . 

[Nacho-RT74]

Mopar 400



Todd

low HP ( just because lower compression ) doesn't mean WORST or BAD engine if you ask me. It is same than a 383. Raise the compresion to same than 383 and will get more Juice of it than the 383.

The 383's are to times better engines than the smog 400's.  I believe the 383's had forged cranks as well.

ok we are discussing WORST engine by quality or power ?

take in mind the reason WHY the 400 came out to float. Once again, raise the compression on a 400 to same 383 specs and what we will get ? same QUALITY engine, with, mostly sure, more power ( or haven't been said, no replacement for displacement ? is not valid now ? )

anyway, even being casted crank I don't think you'll find easilly a broke mopar casted crank to rate it like a "worst" engine ever

and if so, what about 360 ? isn't a little bit more of the same ?