The Inferior Sub Standard Chineese Parts Co.I

[aerodonamic]

I left the club meeting Sat. Got on 285 got apx. 10 miles car ran hot turned on air nothing !!! Pulled over and jumped the fan switch DEAD!! I had changed it at the run for the hills as it went DEAD on the DRAGON of all places The factory unit lasted apx. 21 years the next one lasted excatly 4 years, next one 8mos. the fact that they are Lifetime warrented is little consolation when you are sitting on the side of the road!! Car didn't run hot it just blew the hose from the water rail oh what luck. 14.00 dollers of anti- freeze left the seen also!!!Well thanks for AAA got home in one piece!!!  People look and why has he got the trunck open??? Some slow down waiting to see it burst into flames.Got to go now and replace the motor again!!!

[Fierofool]

Are you saying you cooked the engine and need to replace it? 

[GTRS Fiero]

I realize this was from years ago, but given the car's current issues...

Did he have to replace the engine?  He says it didn't run hot.

[Raydar]

Don was barely computer literate, and not used to using a keyboard, His mind and hands worked much more quickly than he was able to type out. (If you ever met Don, you know how quickly he worked. Even in the final stages of his illness, he probably had more energy than I do. Or at least acted that way.)
I'm thinking that the motor he was replacing was the fan motor. I remember him having some issues with those.
The last engine he put in it was the 3.4. And that was WAY before this.

[GTRS Fiero]

So, the current engine is a 3.4?

I never met him.

[Fierofool]

Somehow, I remember him saying he had a 3.1 bored and stroked close to a 3.4.  The only way to tell would be to look at the starter mounting area on both sides of the engine.  If it has bolt holes on the trunk side, it's a 3.1.  If not, it would be a 3.4.  In any case, I positively remember him saying the engine was bored out. 

[GTRS Fiero]

An F on the side of the block?

[Raydar]

It was a 3.4. I was with him when he picked it up from Ed.
It was a Grooms rebuild that Ed had swapped in, for a customer. It developed an intake manifold leak and watered down the oil. Ed replaced it under warranty.
Don bought it from Ed as a "rebuilder", at a substantial savings. He replaced the bearings (I think) and it was good to go. Everything else was fine.
But yeah... being a rebuild, it was probably bored to 3.5.  At least that's what Don said it was. I never bothered to do the math.