Looks like oil money.

If you had the money you’d do the same thing.

Which V12 did you own? I’m looking at putting the NA version in an classic american truck. The problem is trying to find one to test drive so I can get a feel for the motor and if it would fit my light hauling needs.

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Tri turbo!

I’d like to see them push the smaller motors.

I know the 1 liter ecoboost can easily hit 200 hp (with a larger turbo), Let’s see them hit 350+

Obviously you’d hide it in plain sight.

A reliable car is not a car that requires no service.

The whole point is that the car is EASY to service, the parts are inexpensive and that they last to at least the next manufacture specified service interval.

It’s unreliable when you have premature parts failures or electrical malfunctions.

What type of cars are they driving?

It’s up in the passenger side dash almost by the right most vent.

Pretty much every new turbo motor I can think of has a mechanical vacuum pump. In fact GM is moving away from pneumatically actuated motor mounts because they’re not sure they’ll actually have intake vac at all in their next gen cars.

Things have come a very very long way from your 240 and GTX.

I think it had around 30k when I got it.

How is this camshaft configured?

Its it drive gear- lobes-high pressure fuel pump cam- vac pump?

Please don’t respond to me any more JimZ, after your technical fiasco with the diesel torque post I’m not trusting anything you say from a technical perspective. You clearly lack a substantive engineering background.

How many failed camshafts have you analysed? I’ve been doing things like this every single day for the…

That’s what I get for reading Jalopnik at work (totally at lunch....promise). I missed the NHTSA link.

It’s a turbo motor, there is no guarantee you’ll have engine vacuum (high speed, high load on boost) so they design the gassers to have a diesel like vac pump. This is pretty much standard on every new DI turbo gas engine.

For example my 1 liter Fiesta cruises at 75 mph with the intake air pressure right at…

I’d guess that the failures have something to do with the assembly process and too high of an interference between the shaft and lobe. This could impart high radial stresses on the lobe and weaken it.

The 1 liter is 5 speed manual only :-)

It rattles at idle! It’s the 1 liter 3 cylinder, it’s an amazing motor but due to the 3 cylinder design it’s moving all over the engine bay. There is quite a bit of vibration transmitted to the cabin at idle. Now quite as bad as my old VE pump TDI’s but you know it’s running.

I ran a specialty VW shop for a few years, I’m capable of doing it myself (Maybe try and not have to open the dash up) but the whole reason a bought a new car was to have someone fix the problems for 3 years/36k.

Is it bad that I feel like I can’t trust them and that they’ll only make it worse? It’s a 14k Fiesta, it’s…

Wow, it shows what a handful these cars are. I’m no Ferrari driver but maybe letting off/hitting the brakes was the wrong choice.