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rickf · 05-28-2009, 08:30 PM

I'm somewhat afraid to post this, to mark myself as one lazy SOB.

My 230L6 burned a valve in #1. I got it fixed, but the cyl went to basically 0 compression in about a year. (And that shop had since gone out of business.)

I drove it nearly a decade on the remaining 5 cyls.

A rather rough idle, kind of shaky off the line, smoothed out reasonably at speed, and got me to the races and back once a month for years on end.

I loved that 6. The various Hondas and Volvos in the family, every one of them crapped out dead a time or two. But that 230L6, it ran worse and worse, but it always ran.

05-28-2009, 08:30 PM	#5
rickf Registered User Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Lake Oswego, OR Posts: 318	Re: My engine is hurt...dangnabit I'm somewhat afraid to post this, to mark myself as one lazy SOB. My 230L6 burned a valve in #1. I got it fixed, but the cyl went to basically 0 compression in about a year. (And that shop had since gone out of business.) I drove it nearly a decade on the remaining 5 cyls. A rather rough idle, kind of shaky off the line, smoothed out reasonably at speed, and got me to the races and back once a month for years on end. I loved that 6. The various Hondas and Volvos in the family, every one of them crapped out dead a time or two. But that 230L6, it ran worse and worse, but it always ran.