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WVZR-1 · 08-19-2015

GM had all of the DOHC R&D done many years ago with many millions of miles with cars that generally were better maintained than the average product GM put on the highway. Had the NORTHSTAR done better there would be likely many or at least a few more DOHC projects that met the highway.

NORTHSTAR cars either did extremely well for years or with lack of maintenance most failed. They tried very hard to make that project work. VERY!

It's last install in the Bonneville was pretty well accepted and most that I know that owned them would have bought another. I found it just to difficult to move past the S/CHGD 3800's - I've had several and most with over 200K some slightly less with only one failure. Still drive a S/CHGD SSEi '03 last year.

08-19-2015	#84
WVZR-1 Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 1,884	Re: Point/Counterpoint: DOHC v OHV GM had all of the DOHC R&D done many years ago with many millions of miles with cars that generally were better maintained than the average product GM put on the highway. Had the NORTHSTAR done better there would be likely many or at least a few more DOHC projects that met the highway. NORTHSTAR cars either did extremely well for years or with lack of maintenance most failed. They tried very hard to make that project work. VERY! It's last install in the Bonneville was pretty well accepted and most that I know that owned them would have bought another. I found it just to difficult to move past the S/CHGD 3800's - I've had several and most with over 200K some slightly less with only one failure. Still drive a S/CHGD SSEi '03 last year.