G.M Quality Control.........

uncltrvlnmatt · Dec 22, 2010

Sucks nuggets. I had to do a head and cam on a G.M. 1.6 vortec industrial engine. The first problem is these crappy engines are extremely heat sensitive being a alluminum block and head. My customer cooked the engine pretty good and toasted the head gasket, had the oil comtaminated with coolant. Pulled it apart and sent the head out it came back o.k. only shaved it .004, not to bad but enough to kill the head gasket. It also had a bad cam. It started to come apart due to the oil conatamination. Ordered new cam and all related parts to do the job.

Start to put the engine together and the first thing to piss me off was that the writing on the bottle of pre-lube was 100% Portuguese, or Spanish. Then the cam was bad. Thats right the brand new cam shipped to me had a chunk taken out of the #2 intake lobe from a bad casting. Soooooooo, I ordered a new one. That one also had a chunk taken out of the lobe, but this time it was on the #3 exhaust.

I guess Brazil does not have quality control inspectors. I will never ever own another G.M. vehicle.

Javi · Dec 22, 2010

Hate to see this happen to you Matt, as i have had great success with my DD..

but again my car has no parts from Brazil,its all from canada

uncltrvlnmatt · Dec 22, 2010

This is not my car. It is a customers sweeper.

MustangChris · Dec 23, 2010

those poor brazilians dono how to make quality parts....

also, my buick has ran great... since i threw more money into fixing it than the KBB value. LOL!

also, fun fact of the day:
brazil is the only country in south america to speak pourtugese instead of spanish. When the new world was discovered, Spain and Pourtugal met with the Pope (yea, the Vatican actually had power at that time) and the pope drew a line on an "incomplete" map of the world (did not have south america, only the newly "discovered" parts of north america) this line was litterally a shot in the dark as to who would get what... spain got everything west of the line, portugaul (sp?) got everything east of the line.

After landing in south america, portugual found that they got a very tiny amount of land, so they explored inland and claimed as much land as possible with the argument that they "started" on the east side of the line. That is why Brazil, the only land portugual laid claim to, is such a large chunk of land, and why it speaks portuguese instead of spanish.

-Chris

uncltrvlnmatt · Dec 23, 2010

I had another one of those wonderful Brazilian engines blow up.

D3VST8R96GT · Dec 24, 2010

MustangChris said:
those poor brazilians dono how to make quality parts....

also, my buick has ran great... since i threw more money into fixing it than the KBB value. LOL!

also, fun fact of the day:
brazil is the only country in south america to speak pourtugese instead of spanish. When the new world was discovered, Spain and Pourtugal met with the Pope (yea, the Vatican actually had power at that time) and the pope drew a line on an "incomplete" map of the world (did not have south america, only the newly "discovered" parts of north america) this line was litterally a shot in the dark as to who would get what... spain got everything west of the line, portugaul (sp?) got everything east of the line.

After landing in south america, portugual found that they got a very tiny amount of land, so they explored inland and claimed as much land as possible with the argument that they "started" on the east side of the line. That is why Brazil, the only land portugual laid claim to, is such a large chunk of land, and why it speaks portuguese instead of spanish.

-Chris