I see yer point Sick6, but I gotta say in defense of AMC and their sixes that most of your Eagle's problems stem more from it being an '82 than from being an AMC six. The early '80s were just about the lowest of times for traditional detroit iron, trying to meet ever stricter CAFE and smog standards with band-aided 70s technology.

Swap on earlier AMC igintion and induction, and that Eagle prolly would have settled down into a reliable ride. Or, goin' the other way, I read a while back about a guy who swapped the entire engine/trans/electronics/etc from a late model jeep 4.0 into an Eagle

Lurch, my faithful D150, is an '82, but the only reason it's smooth and reliable is because all the stuff that made that era so rotten has long since been trashed- the Lean Burn, the carb, the cat convertor (sshhh!) and replaced with simpler early 70s based stuff.

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Brian (Valianator)

'65 Valiant V100 170/T-flite
'82 D150 225/4-speed
'65 Dart 225 4 door
'68 Dart 225 4-door with Valiant front clip (future project)

My 2 cents worth....
The slant and the AMC motors would run a close race....
What if Chrysler had kept the slant in production and updated
it with Multi port fuel injection, better head design,etc. etc.
Isn't that what the 4.0 Jeep motors are? A modern 232/258?
Every slant I've owned has been reliable and went well past
200,000 miles.
Every 4.0 Jeep I've owned has done the same (and still going).
I've owned three 250 Chebby motors. The first in a '74 Nova
(my first car) which went through 2 sets of timing gears, a
distributor, 2 valve jobs, had to tighten the intake/exhaust
bolts up about once a month because they liked to back out,
also had to adjust the valves about 3 times a year, this car was
low mileage when I bought it and despite being my first car I did
not run it hard and maintained it extremely well.
Also had a '70 Pontiac LeMans with a 250 Chebby six and a 3
speed trans (yes that was the way it came from the factory-
bought it from the original owner) and by the time it reached
100,000 miles it was worn out.
Third Chebby was in a 63 Pickup. Prior owner had replaced
the original motor with a '78 model. He stated that it was low
mileage but had never ran quite right. The 78 motor had the
integral intake. Got it home and ran a compression test. Low
compression on two cylinders so I yanked the head. Two burnt
valves and cracked around the intake. So I replaced the head
and got rid of it.
Since then I've owned nothing but Chrysler products which
includes Jeeps.
Anyways...I'm pretty much convinced through personal
experience that the slants and 4.0's I've owned are
superior to the Chebby 6.
Todd

Yeah that's it, but the version I've seen was a 478 V-6. This was a BIG engine. I onetime drove a 1966 GMC pulpwood truck with that engine. I could start it off in high gear and it would chug it's way right on up. But as fast as it would run was about 60 MPH.

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82 D150-225/727
02 Dakota-3.9/5 speed
87 GMC C7000-8.2 Detroit Diesel/5+2

I gotta agree with sick6 too......That motor wasn't good for anything 'cept staining my driveway



-dave

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what part of "illegal" is so confusing???

Isn't that AMC GREMLIN with a 258 a version of the Jeep 4.0?

My opinion with 40 + years in the engine building business, Gas, Diesel and LP, Oval Track racing Slants for 4 years, Drag racing on and off since 1965.....

The Slants are TUFF - No Question and DURABLE - No Question.
Back in the '60's & '70's while living right here in the Detroit area and having access to Highland Park Engineering where there WERE back room attempts to see just how far a Slant could be pushed AND for how long, there were weekends and evenings when I LIVED THERE. Remember they got 275hp out of one with mostly production line parts.
I'd KILL for that head they finally did.
Oval Track: An .060" and .100" over /6 was the plan. Cutting .110" (total) off the block and head was the norm also.
Remember: One of the main down falls of EVERYBODY'S inline 6 AND 8 is BREATHING.
These heads share one side for both ports. Intake & Exhaust. Not Flow through like a V-6 or V-8.
We are talking now in hi Performance, hi RPM applications NOT in your grocery getter economy ride or even a mild street engine.
The cold/cool intake charge is polluted by the HOT outlet charge. This even brings up issues with the direct injected racing /6 engines. Notice in production EFI - PORT INJECTED engines if you've ever seen one where the injector is so close to the exhaust port? Nope.
Adding a cooling passage between the exhaust port and the intake ports on the Slant can help but this is only being developed here recently. May be tested this season.
Ford Tricks: Ford Total Performance (Detroit) built a 300 Ford 6 and threw a pair of 351 Cleveland heads (with their apposing cylinders CNC removed) on to the 300 block. At the center cyl.s (#3 & #4 cyl) these 2 heads were apoxied together. Interesting that the bolt pattern of the 300-6 head and the 351 heads are the same.
Flow through technology for the Ford 6.
Matter of Record: Jim Britt here at Flat Rock Speedway won 2 fast heats and finished in the top 10 EVERY night against 355ci V-8s with this gem. They only gave him a 200 lb. break for having the 6.
AMC Tricks: I have little performance knowledge of these engines other than that Mopar would have kept the /6 and dumped the 258 when they took over AMC but, by a minimal margin, AMC had developed the 4.0 to run cleaner with less HP loss than Chrysler could with the Leaning Tower of power. The slants did NOT fend very welll when slid into the narrow confines of most Jeep Chassis. Guess who won?
Chevy Mods. There were quite a few REAL wild ones in the group that won 90% of the time. Running 7000 rpms in a Wild combo, like using a 250 block with .060" over 327 pistons and sleeves and the 292 truck rods and crank, pushing the cubes to 304. AND it had to run ALL NIGHT LONG TOO!
Having GM's Main worldwide Engine Lab in Warren Michigan helped a LOT.

Final note. Watch the Slant-6 Shootout boys. They are doing their home work.
Don't count out the Slant as your power plant. You can create a screamer.
Once apon a time Hot Rod Magazine contracted for a Street Rod 'T' Bucket to be built using the Slant/6 for power. I will go to my grave still believing this to be one of the GREATEST & COOLEST rods ever built. I believe it was called the XR-6 ??
I haven't seen a picture of it in 20 some years.
Hope to see you all at the strip, at least once this season.

Terry

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Terry Bogusz
From Super 6 Left turns to Straight again.

You mean Tex Smith's XR6?

http://www.motorcarportfolio.com/site/p ... fm?id=2460
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"When you find a big kettle of crazy, it's best not to stir it." - Pointy-haired Boss

1964 Valiant V200, 225/Pushbutton 904
BBD, CAI, HEI, LBP, AC, AM/FM/USB, EIEIO