[DeTomaso] whats old is new again

[Will Kooiman]

Our Honda just turned 235,000 miles from a 1 litre, 3 cylinder engine.
Nothing has been done to the engine except for normal maintenance.  I
changed the spark plugs at something like 200,000, just because.

Why is it not a big deal for Hondas to run forever, but hitting 100,000 in
a 70¹s/80¹s American V-8 was a major milestone?

I¹m not bashing American engines.  I¹m really what makes the Hondas run so
long.  Is it because of overhead cams, better materials, closer tolerances?

On 12/6/15, 12:10 PM, "DeTomaso on behalf of Daniel C Jones"
<detomaso-bounces at poca.com on behalf of daniel.c.jones2 at gmail.com> wrote:

>   > When an engine fails or becomes very worn, it is usually pulled from
>   the vehicle and scrapped. Ford wants to change that by utilizing a
>   high-tech plasma process to remanufacture broken engines.
>   When my dad got back from Germany serving as a medic in WWII, he was
>   assigned to motor pool duty.A  The motor pool had a very well equipped
>   machine shop.A  One of the cars, IRC a Pontiac sedan with a flat head
>   straight eight, had been rebuilt several times.A  After a few re-bores,
>   they reached the limit of the block casting.A  Rather than scrapping
>   the block, they metal sprayed/plasma welded it back to standard bore
>   and rebuilt it again.A  IIRC, it had logged something like 500,000
>   miles.
>   Dan Jones
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