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12-26-2011, 09:04 PM
The slant-six originally was a 225-incher, and very soon thereafter was also available as a one-inch-less-stroke 170. I have owned both, and they were both just as bullet-proof as the engine they replaced. They also made an aluminum-block version for a year or two, but they just weren't the same.
I punched a hole in a piston of a 225, and continued to drive it for a few months, smoking badly and occasionally getting enough gasoline vapors into the crankcase to ignite. That would blow off the breather cap (which I eventually just left off), and leave me with a reminder that it was just a matter of time before I would splatter the pan all over a highway somewhere. But it never did. I finally put another piston and rings into it, seated that set of rings, and promptly sold it. It was in a '61 Valiant with "three on the floor".
It was a great little car, and was nice, basic transportation, but kinda' ugly. For all I know, it may still be running!
The "economy" engine in the "cheap" full-size cars (taxi, fleet, etc) from 1960-on was also the new six, though I don't remember the 170's being available in the large cars.
Pop
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12-26-2011, 11:10 PM
Yea, the Slant six came out in 1960 to replace the uber-reliable (though heavy and inefficient) Chrysler flat-head six, which lived-on "industrially" for a few more years in fork lifts, tugs, compressors, generators, etc.
The slant-six originally was a 225-incher, and very soon thereafter was also available as a one-inch-less-stroke 170. I have owned both, and they were both just as bullet-proof as the engine they replaced. They also made an aluminum-block version for a year or two, but they just weren't the same.
I punched a hole in a piston of a 225, and continued to drive it for a few months, smoking badly and occasionally getting enough gasoline vapors into the crankcase to ignite. That would blow off the breather cap (which I eventually just left off), and leave me with a reminder that it was just a matter of time before I would splatter the pan all over a highway somewhere. But it never did. I finally put another piston and rings into it, seated that set of rings, and promptly sold it. It was in a '61 Valiant with "three on the floor".
It was a great little car, and was nice, basic transportation, but kinda' ugly. For all I know, it may still be running!
The "economy" engine in the "cheap" full-size cars (taxi, fleet, etc) from 1960-on was also the new six, though I don't remember the 170's being available in the large cars.
Pop
The slant-six originally was a 225-incher, and very soon thereafter was also available as a one-inch-less-stroke 170. I have owned both, and they were both just as bullet-proof as the engine they replaced. They also made an aluminum-block version for a year or two, but they just weren't the same.
I punched a hole in a piston of a 225, and continued to drive it for a few months, smoking badly and occasionally getting enough gasoline vapors into the crankcase to ignite. That would blow off the breather cap (which I eventually just left off), and leave me with a reminder that it was just a matter of time before I would splatter the pan all over a highway somewhere. But it never did. I finally put another piston and rings into it, seated that set of rings, and promptly sold it. It was in a '61 Valiant with "three on the floor".
It was a great little car, and was nice, basic transportation, but kinda' ugly. For all I know, it may still be running!
The "economy" engine in the "cheap" full-size cars (taxi, fleet, etc) from 1960-on was also the new six, though I don't remember the 170's being available in the large cars.
Pop
Don't forget the 198 CID slant six. It replaced the 170 in 1970.
Jim
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If I recall correctly.. this was a made for TV movie, that became a bit of cult classic, and eventually was shown on the silver screen. also I think Spielberg was still in college at USC at the time, Or maybe this was just after graduation.. I'll have to research it.
My son used to attend Embry Riddle in Prescott AZ. one weekend visit we saw this tanker truck at a museum in Jerome, which is where my mother's family is from.. I have attached a link....about half way down on the link page is a unique sleeper tanker truck it is pretty cool to see in person.
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My son used to attend Embry Riddle in Prescott AZ. one weekend visit we saw this tanker truck at a museum in Jerome, which is where my mother's family is from.. I have attached a link....about half way down on the link page is a unique sleeper tanker truck it is pretty cool to see in person.
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Well according to that movie you could run the radiator, and the oil pan dry, and still get another 100 miles out of it .... LOL Damned tough Dodge! My dad had a 63 model 330 with a max wedge 426.... that car was a beast, I remember as a kid taking trips every few months to the cabin in North Tahoe, and that car would never slow down for anything I would sleep up in the rear window ledge... while my brother and sis shared the back seat...... Yeah I know what seatbelts....