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I know the difference between open loop and closed loop, this was not the problem. This occurred while the system was in closed loop... it was essentially an emission defeating feature... http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/Pre_96/November95/596.txt.html Only link I can find on short notice.

Actually, the problem with these was not reliability, but driveability problems stemming from failing emissions components. Cadillac had similar problems in the late '90s when the EPA discovered that under certain conditions (full throttle) the computer would ignore emissions concerns completely. The EPA required recalls that booted them out of the country... but then UN sanctions killed their export business completely. Later, aerial bombing killed much of their homeland business. I give Zastava credit for still existing today. If you were to put the Yugo up against the original GM Diesel, 8-6-4 and Vega 2300, the Yugo would probably win in long term reliability. I believe if Zastava came back to the US with a newer $8000 car, people would be tripping over themselves to get it.

Ah, oddly that is an "optional" engine, hence I didn't see it. Optional, with a $165 credit. LOL. Still, the V8 weight in '82 is 3783, the V6 column had all dashes, hence the reason I thought it had gone away in '82. Not seeing the 4.1 V-6 in '80.

And if they fill the trunk with concrete, they can hit 4800 and call it a CUV.

Hmmm...I'm 6'0, 240lbs, found the CTS easy to get in and out of...what are you, 6'8" and 500lbs? (j/k).... We've been over this before. I'm 6'4" and 400lbs... however, I'm all torso. If my legs were in a normal ratio with my torso, I'd be about 6'8"~9". When I sit in a larger car like the 2004 Grand Prix, I need to put the seat all the way back, all the way down and then tilted back, so when seated, I can usually look out the rear window. Climbing out of that hole while getting my head to clear the roofline is a real PITA. At NYAIS a few years back, the Cadillac folks asked me not to try out the CTS, instead urging me to only play with the STS and DTS. The STS was still kinda small. Huh?? An '82 de Ville is more like 4500-4800 pounds, isn't it? That's a huge car... All ya wanted to know and then some Spec's Your specs are listing the 4100 as a V-6. I fat fingered the 3784, its actually 3783 in the Standard Catalog listed for '82 only. Other similar years ('80-'81/'83-'84) are about 3900. I suspect the '82s got some of the early '80s short lived aluminum parts. An '82 is mostly full of open space... just like I like my big cars.

Hope you like that CTS in White, Black, Silver or Red. That's all the luxury you get in color choice. The CTS-V is probably quite the fun car, if you have roads nearby where you can wring the 556hp out of it. But once you get past that, the normal CTS is like a 300hp RWD G6/Regal... cramped with no trunk... and in my case, it takes 5 minutes of careful folding to get inside. Not very Cadillac-like, to me, unless I utter that Cadillac name put on a certain J-body platform. Honestly, I don't even think I care for the styling anymore on the sedan. The Coupe and Wagon are still interesting, but waning... GF thinks the coupe is the ugliest thing she's ever seen. In the end, the only part of the CTS I'm interested in is the LSA drivetrain... maybe transferred into a clean 1980's G-body coupe, with Hotchkiss suspension upgrades. Or better yet, transferred into a clean Coupe De Ville... in place of the 8-6-4 disaster. '82 Coupe De Ville is 3784 pounds, vs. 4250 for the CTS-V... tenth a second for every 100 pounds lost... thats a '82 Coupe De Ville a half second faster in the quarter than the CTS-V.

And this was? Personally, I think Maybach should stay...Mercedes still has an opportunity to make something special... but if they kill it now, it will remain remembered as an Edsel, this time around. The antagonizingly long time in determining its fate indicates to me that Mercedes has spent some money on a possible successor. When the Maybach first came out, it was pretty unique... problem is that it simply turned out to be the future direction of the S-class, which quickly over took it in styling... and then stealing a page from the GM playbook, the Maybach was never updated. With Maybach at the top of the food chain, Mercedes can get back to its race to the bottom, competing with Chevy and Ford making tiny sedans, taxicabs and garbage trucks.

You're not the only one to notice the death of the DTS... or to comment on the loss of the Northstar. For me, Cadillac is dead because the only Cadillac car left is the diminutive CTS. Who would have ever thought Cadillac's largest car would be smaller than a Chevy Malibu... or a '79 Chevy Nova. Yes, yes, I know a Buick-quality replacement is coming in the form of the XTS. It'll take another decade before a true flagship comes out... lovely. Of course, its still all moot for me. GM died in the bankruptcy when they came back minus one particular marque.

No, I just double checked, the heads definitely do interchange... but you have to swap the right ones to actually have them work. To have them work well, well, thats another case. A little googling came up with a pretty interesting 301 project into a racecar... dyno'd at 476 hp... using "real" Pontiac heads on a 301. I agree that many parts do not interchange and that there is zero aftermarket support.

Wiki is claiming 135hp, but Standard Catalog claims 120hp... I'd go with the lower number. But it had 210 ft-lbs at 1600... that will move around mass... Speaking of the 265 on the header, thats not far off from the HP levels of the pedestrian 389s in 1960... 245, 281, 303 (excluding Tri-power or more exotic engines)... I'm sure its the cubes, though.... why someone would have painted that to brag about the displacement is beyond me. Speaking of the 301, I always wonder what could have been if GM didn't kill off the Pontiac engines, considering what Ford did with the 302, knowing that Pontiac had lots of experience getting power out of sub-5.0 engines with the stillborn '69 303.

Buy the '60 Bonneville and slide the pennies in the window. When the local municipality complains about the derelict car in your yard, explain that its a big piggy bank. Is the local municipality against encouraging people to save?

The '60 valve covers on a 301? No, they should bolt up... IIRC, nothing special about the heads' geometry on the 301/265, just the block and intake. The heads are standard Pontiac, just not really free breathing. In fact, I think some guys have used 301 heads on "real" Pontiac motors to attempt to increase compression... but I don't remember the details. Only glitch I could see would be metric fasteners, but thats easy enough to get right. I guy swapping the valve covers would make the engine look correct to the uninitiated. But knowing how short the block is cut down (lighter than a SBC), I would think the engine would get lost in the big Bonne engine compartment, sitting so low.

Yeah, but getting titles is harder and harder and more expensive all the time. You ever try procuring a title for a car left abandoned in a fenced storage area? Edit: What really irks me is that most "no title" deals are because the current owner misplaced it and are too lazy to go to MVS. When you said 350, I was figuring it was a SBC... but even a clapped out SBC is not always worth pulling. A "new" 301... LOL. Worth scrap unless somebody has a Trans Am and wants a stock drivetrain. IIRC, if the intake is post-'80, it has to be a 301/265... and because GM shortened the block height on 301/265s, the only engine a 301/265 intake fits on is a 301/265. Putting it on a P350 would result in huge gaps between the intake and heads. I'll sing the praises of many bad-rep engines (Olds 307, 403, Chevy 305, 400 SB, Pontiac 151), but the 301/265 gets no love from me. Surprised it would move a '60 Bonne.

I don't really like the P-60s, and I agree it would be cool... but no title, no bombing around. I think the price is too high for something without the title and engine/tranny (and why would someone both yanking the engine tranny out, unless it was nearly new). If P-60s were more collectable, I could see the price being right... but they simply aren't.

I dunno. My old neighbor had a low mileage 1998-ish S-10 Blazer... blown head gasket. I probably should have bought it for dirt cheap and fixed it, but I didn't want a little SUV. I see 3-4 '94-'02 on CL going for dirt cheap... each one needs an engine or tranny. Not always high mileage, either.

You can turn that off and or program the lock and unlock points (key out, park, etc..) in the settings section of the DIC. There's actually lots of stuff to program in there- even the volume of the turn signal clicking. Depends on the GM car. Probably more likely on newer GM cars... but I know many of the early "automatic locking" GM cars, this feature can NOT be disabled.

Got to zig when everyone else zags. I'm not surprised that Corvette insurance is not as high as some think... it has the same demographics as the DTS, Lucerne, etc. Corvette owners generally baby their cars and you really don't even see too many people on Youtube doing stupid stuff in a 'Vette. The 20 somethings are currently driving up the insurance rates for Civics and crap.

My experience with S-10s and derivatives is similar to what DF is seeing. Not the best reliability. I'm shopping for cheap-cheap S-10s and every one has a fatal flaw. I know some of you have enjoyed many miles of S-10 bliss, but I've seen many more die out of the blue over the years.

True... however, you need a convincing business plan to get loans... Lincoln is not helping that situation for it's dealers.

I agree that it sounds like the belt timing is off. They really should have test driven it. Trouble is, its hard to do a big repair like a timing belt without touching anything else. I'd jostle some of the wiring at that end of the engine, just to be sure they didn't make something loosen up or allow the spark plug wires to ground out at higher speeds. In any case, I would hope the shop should make good on it.

Assuming Lincoln sales stay at about 80,000, those remaining 325 dealerships spending $1 mill each will need to pass on $4000 per Lincoln sold in 2012. Thats before the dealerships even start paying salaries and the electric bill. Not a good time to be a Lincoln dealer. Its as if they want Lincoln to just fail now, before any effort is put into it to save it.

True... and that can be hard in a heavyish vehicle with only a 4. At least with the 3800SC, you can get around on the 6 cyl without struggling to keep up with traffic. Every four I drive, it seems like I have to drive them like I stole it just to keep up with traffic.

Its tough to tell, with all the plastic added to the top of the 650, but I think I have a 190cc B&S buried in the garage. Without seeing more images of your's, I couldn't make a judgement call if it would work or not. About 5 years ago, I had been running an old tough-as-nails Snapper lawnmower... when it started to smoke and squeal internally, I figured it was near the end of its life. That summer, I poked through all the piles of mower parts Dad left behind and some flea markets, and before I knew it, I had about a dozen nearly identical B&S motors and a Snapper "parts" mower. Its amazing how clean some engines are on the inside considering they were half-buried in mud when I found them. I was swapping this and that and had a combo working, but it was tough to start... thats when the neighbor gave me the free Craftsman. Most of the parts got shelved, as I figured the Craftsman will one day need copious B&S parts. That Craftsman has been a good mower, though. In any case, not likely worth the shipping, even if I could find it. I would hit up a flea market... know what your "short block" is and you could likely come home with 3-4 engines for $5-$15 each. If you look for one with all the fancy plastic, you're going to pay for that... most new mowers that fail are going to be engine failures, not body. Get yourself some chrome trim and side pipes and that bad boy will be the envy of the 'hood. ;-)

*Sigh* FWD. Well, even I wouldn't balk at a FWD lawnmower... actually, I've never cared for self propelled mowers (that you can't ride). So what kind of engine are you looking for? Looks like a B&S mount... I imagine the belt for the front wheels has some kind of adaptor. Should be lots of B&S motors for sale on CL... the basic motor never seems to change. Actually, it looks like the body stamping is the same as my Craftsman I got free from my neighbor a few years ago. I had a lot of problems with the front wheels not staying upright. I hope they reinforced that area on yours. Edit: Yeah, I see they have reinforcement plates on the sides. Something like what I was going to do to mine.

My JY has a very fast turn around... a car is only there a short time before its stripped of anything worthwhile and gone. If its there, I have to act then. If I wait, report back and get the OK to pull it, it will be gone. The whole idea being that these are hard to find items on this list... and should be grabbed on a 'buy first, ask questions later' basis. Sure, the requester may end up with a duplicate, but in this case, having a spare is not a bad thing.