Rev up your engines!
Dao says, what do you think about Land Cruisers, ok Land Cruisers are well made, Toyota makes
them, now the Land Rovers are rolling piles of junk, the English stuff, but the Land Cruisers
are really excellent made vehicles and can last a long time,
but realize, they are gas hogs, those things get terrible gas mileage because
their huge and they weigh a lot, I mean the newer ones are better than the
older ones, I had customers with the old ones when they were big straight 6 cylinders with
giant pistons and standard transmissions and they got like 7 miles a gallon in town with
the AC on, but they can last a really long time,
Atom bomb says, Scotty my 1999 Buick Century misfires only between 35 and 45 miles an hour,
I checked plugs, cylinder 3 the plug was worn badly, replaced that and it still happens,
what now, ok if you find that it's only misfiring at
that speed, what you want to do if have a mechanic do what's called a wet and dry compression
test of your engine, because it could be that the number 3 cylinder
is just flat wearing out, if that plug is worn badly and the other aren't,
it generally means you have a problem in the number 3 cylinder, and if a mechanic says
yes you know you're wet and dry compression ratio shows you got a serious worn part inside
your number 3 cylinder and that's a 1999 Buick, you might either live with it or get another
car, because to rebuild the engine is going to
cost you thousands of dollars to do it right so you know,
Hanson says, big fan Scotty, you recommended an automatic transmission over CVT but the
Corolla uses CVT thanks, well for a while you could have a choice,
you could get a regular or CVT and I'd say get the regular, but my son bought one with
a CVT that was a year old and he loves it, he says it gets better gas mileage than it
was even rated for so, you know I'm not a big fan of how CVT's drive and I personally
like a standard anyways, but Toyota makes pretty good stuff, that said,
do not buy a Subaru CVT, do not buy a Nissan CVT because you're going to have problems,
they have lots of problems with those, Dexbolt says, Scotty do you think it's a bad
idea to put a turbo into a 2000 Honda Civic with more than 220,000 miles, well it is if
you don't want to rebuild the engine, realize Honda makes very good engines, they
were originally a motorcycle company so their engines are top notch, their automatic transmissions
no, and their CVT transmission no, but their engines are really strong engines,
but that said, their made for what size they have and what power,
so you take a small Civic engine that's got 220,000 miles on it and you put a turbo on
it, you'll probably end up blowing the engine, that said if you want to rebuild the engine
or put a later model engine in it and turbo go right ahead, their strong engines,
but with that kind of mileage your kind of pushing your luck adding a turbocharger now,
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