How did I miss the Atlas engine?

Knurled. said:

Suprf1y said:

The0retical said:

In reply to Knurled and NickD. :

Well maybe not then. I haven't seen a truck built prior to 2015 that doesn't rust around here. Difficult brake jobs are where I draw the line. They're regular wear items so they should be at least semi easy to service.

In 12 years and over 400,000 km I've never done a brake job on my two Colorados.  Even so, t's not nearly the nightmare it's purported to be. I've seen a few rusty ones but neither of mine had any.

 

The nightmare is when the ABS tone rings come unglued and break up (or rust behind the glue and expand out and then break off) and the hub assemblies are some really absurd price like $600 each.

 

 

More like $60.

Complete. With the ABS sensor. 

I am a little disappointed GM only used the Atlas as a truck engine. 

I remember a guy built a 1000hp turbo Atlas 6 and dropped it in a backhalved Nova drag car. It ran at Drag Week '04 (or '05, whatever was the first year, where Carl Scott won with that BS Nova) but had teething issues that prevented it from running at full potential and the owner/driver got slapped with a permanent lifetime ban from the event after it was found that he was stealthily trailering the car to within a few miles of each checkpoint and track and then driving it the rest of the way. Never heard anymore about the car after that, it just seemed to fall of the radar.

In reply to spitfirebill :

WAAAY too big to fit in a (modern) car.  It is a very tall chunk of metal.

Any group of people that would approve such an ugly front end design obviously lack the good sense to make a reliable, easy to service, long lasting vehicle in general.

It really is a great engine.  Mom had a 6-cyl in a Trailblazer.  I only have two complaints about it.

- it sounded awful
- The VVT control wasn't well sorted out.  It wasn't progressive (at least not in that year) so as you went through part throttle acceleration there were surges as it stepped to the next cam position.  Made it feel like it had a fuel pressure or ignition problem.