Nothing wrong with buick v6 engines, awesome things for Shaza and Daza mobiles
the habibs, Mohammeds and Latifas also love them you are in good company.

Id take the buick v6.
Usa's last muscle car.
Buick Grand national, turbo V6, only came in black
Below is the limited "GNX" model.
Some useless info for a datsun forum

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Dan.
Official organisor of Thursday nite pizza.

I've owned 3 Buick Commodores

VP, VS (was rebuilt at 80,000kms and properly balanced), VX (Supercharged)

How I rate the engines in order

Reliability

VP, VS, VX

Power

VX, VS, VP

Fuel consumption

VS, VP, VX

Serviceability

VP, VS, VX

Mileage

VP (380,000kms never missed a beat I loved this old car), VS (280,000kms till I sold it and it still ran beautifully), VX (270,000kms - two blown head gaskets, anyone want to buy it? )

Common theme here is the VS. The engine had a few more tweaks over the more rattlier VP so it produced more power but Holden never fixed the autos so they blew them around 150,000kms almost like clockwork (but rebuilds with better internals go forever).

I've since (as of last week) got the missus a VE Series 2 SV6, totally different engine with lots more power, torque and economy. If I was going to Holden V6 a Datto the VE Series 2 (or VF) would be the one I would use as they are so much better

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Current Garage:

1971 Datsun 1600
2019 Mazda 6 Touring Wagon
2009 Holden SV6 Sedan

exactly

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1600 with FJ20 & Simmons. something different.

Do the alloytec's in the late VE's still have timing chain issues?

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Dan.
Official organisor of Thursday nite pizza.

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Classic Auto Fabrications:
http://www.ozdat.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=31659

http://www.lescollinsracing.com/

Geee boys you all must be bogans if you like ECOTECs cos likin something makes you a bogan apparently

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My Crew
Toyota Lexen (VP Commodore Vacationner mock up)
holden Camira SLi2000 CONCORS RESTO
1977 datsun 200b GX drag\drift ECOTEC powered.
holden Camira FORMULA RIP

Thats the shiz right there

i actually considered a 1976 vega gt with the TA Performance alloy v6 buick replica but to get them to handle like a 260z its quite a feat & vegas are now looking like toranas here for babyboomers

http://www.taperformance.com/proddetail ... d=TA_V3800

http://dreamcarly.com/wp-content/upload ... evy-76.jpg

http://image.hotrod.com/f/featuredvehic ... r_view.jpg

Yep! there's a VE at a mate's workshop now getting that problem fixed

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1600 with FJ20 & Simmons. something different.

VQs never had chain issues, my old cefiro vq25de is still going with 431,XXXkms - my nephews daily uni hack.

that's because you can't beat japanese quality

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1600 with FJ20 & Simmons. something different.

Shave 500kg off a VS the best way - by making it a Datsun - and you'd actually have something very nice to drive. A lot nicer than (for example) guys who do SR20DE or similar as the power/torque delivery would be great comparitively.

That said, I'd never do it myself unless it was an absolute sh!tter.