Jeff
05-12-2005, 02:02 PM
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> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:57:41 GMT, "Jeff" <kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"msterspy" <msterspy@netscape.net> wrote in message
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>>> What cars have used aluminum for oil pans for years? I have never
>>> owned one before the Escape. I have owned most GM cars in the past and
>>> now I have Fords. As far as I know, the GM cars all had steel or cast
>>> iron engine parts. Actually my 85 cutlass had an aluminum intake
>>> manifold, I think.
>>>
>>> I remember the 74 Vega had an aluminum engine and was a lot of
>>> trouble.
>>
>>But the engines had cast iron cylinder heads. Having blocks and cylinder
>>heads made out of different metals leads to problems with the metals
>>expanding at different rates. This was good for my father, who rebuilt
>>engines.
>>
>>But there were aluminum engines in the 1960s:
>>http://www.slantsix.org/articles/dutra-blocks/alm-block-sl6.htm.
>>
>>The most popular car ever sold (i think around 25,000,000) had an aluminum
>>engine.
>
> If you are talking about the VW Beetle, I'll have to advise you you
> are wrong. The block of the Beetle engine was a MAGNESIUM Alloy, not
> aluminum. The heads were aluminum, and the cyls cast iron or steel.
Gee, you learn something every day.
Thanks.
Jeff
news:7lmt611495rgsqh9emddophif6t5bhinad@4ax.com...
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005 17:57:41 GMT, "Jeff" <kidsdoc2000@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>>"msterspy" <msterspy@netscape.net> wrote in message
>>news:m57r61duf2ke1qafhesmpeajv0b0j0ioju@4ax.com...
>>> What cars have used aluminum for oil pans for years? I have never
>>> owned one before the Escape. I have owned most GM cars in the past and
>>> now I have Fords. As far as I know, the GM cars all had steel or cast
>>> iron engine parts. Actually my 85 cutlass had an aluminum intake
>>> manifold, I think.
>>>
>>> I remember the 74 Vega had an aluminum engine and was a lot of
>>> trouble.
>>
>>But the engines had cast iron cylinder heads. Having blocks and cylinder
>>heads made out of different metals leads to problems with the metals
>>expanding at different rates. This was good for my father, who rebuilt
>>engines.
>>
>>But there were aluminum engines in the 1960s:
>>http://www.slantsix.org/articles/dutra-blocks/alm-block-sl6.htm.
>>
>>The most popular car ever sold (i think around 25,000,000) had an aluminum
>>engine.
>
> If you are talking about the VW Beetle, I'll have to advise you you
> are wrong. The block of the Beetle engine was a MAGNESIUM Alloy, not
> aluminum. The heads were aluminum, and the cyls cast iron or steel.
Gee, you learn something every day.
Thanks.
Jeff