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Originally posted by warmonger:
Originally posted by weargle:
I hate German engineering. Why wouldn't that piece all be the same as in a Miata transmission? They take an easy solution and overcomplicate everything. I have a feeling that this is the last German car that I will own.
This car is Ford, pretty much through and through. The engine might have originated from german engineers but the transmission isn't.
German engineering is usually tops....
For the tranny problems, blame Ford of Europe.
You mean the MTX-75 that is manufactured in Cologne, Germany, in the Cologne Transmission plant?
http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=269
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True but the car isn't made in Germany is it? 
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Originally posted by weargle:
Originally posted by warmonger:
Originally posted by weargle:
I hate German engineering. Why wouldn't that piece all be the same as in a Miata transmission? They take an easy solution and overcomplicate everything. I have a feeling that this is the last German car that I will own.
This car is Ford, pretty much through and through. The engine might have originated from german engineers but the transmission isn't.
German engineering is usually tops....
For the tranny problems, blame Ford of Europe.
You mean the MTX-75 that is manufactured in Cologne, Germany, in the Cologne Transmission plant?
http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=269
[censored], half the cars and parts for Ford are made in mexico, but that doesn't make it a Mexican car!!!
The engineers were probably British and American.
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Originally posted by todras:
True but the car isn't made in Germany is it?
How 'bout those Camrys made in the fifth island of Japan, Kentucky? Or those Ohio-san Accords? Are they any less Japanese?
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Originally posted by weargle:
Originally posted by todras:
True but the car isn't made in Germany is it?
How 'bout those Camrys made in the fifth island of Japan, Kentucky? Or those Ohio-san Accords? Are they any less Japanese?
No they aren't and the contour isn't any less American/British
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And the verdict is ...  And the wristpin is shot too, so the piston flops around on the connecting rod like Paris Hilton's head in my lap after she inhaled an eightball.
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Originally posted by weargle:
And the verdict is ...
And the wristpin is shot too, so the piston flops around on the connecting rod like Paris Hilton's head in my lap after she inhaled an eightball.
WHOA WHOA WHOA...you blew the motor already and pulled it out and found your culprit!!!!? 
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But at least the rod never broke.... 
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Nope, I just got around to putting up the pic of the #6 piston and rod and bearings from the toasted motor. The new one is quite fine. That pic is my new wallpaper, and I have a souvenir to boot 
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Good old oil related #6 rod bearing failure. That looks all too familiar. 
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