This car is a beautiful, luxurious beast. Its owner loves to drive it fast. The valve stem seals were a good 1 to 2 mm off the stems, producing an incredible quantity of smoke out of the tail pipes. Read More
The engine in this car was originally designed for the C-Coupe from the early 2000s. That was a port-injected, naturally aspirated affair. Now they've bolted on a vacuum pump to one cam, a high pressure fuel pump to the other cam, beefed up the timing chain to more than twice its original strength, and put a turbo on it. Read More
The intake manifold had to be removed from this engine for repair.
The "tumble flap" intake control rods are made of plastic and commonly break after a while. Nothing unusual there. Read More
If you're getting the occasional engine misfire and no one can figure it out, maybe it's your engine mounts. Read More