Vega engine

[nacelp]

Geez, just to end this <g>
Vega had an AL block, and cast iron head.
Easy to blow headgaskets, replace headgasket, and then blow the rings outta
them.  Was living in LA at the time, and saw many of them die.   On a *good*
hot evening driving from LA to Riverside, you could watch 2 start to smoke,
and wind up on the side of the road, on the way home.
  Some folks loved them.  Others hated them.
Grumpy


> > >Also betcha that the first engines with anything resembling solenoid
> > >operated valves are about as long lived and popular as the Vega engines
> > >were!
> > Vega?? I think I have just made you point! So what is a Vega engine
then?
> Nobody else has jumped in, so I'll answer even though the Vega is a bit
> before my time:  The Vega engine was a SOHC 4 cylinder with an aluminum
> block with no cylinder liners.  The aluminum had a high silicon content
> to minimize cylinder wear.  I looked at one briefly in the wrecking yard
> - the head seemed to be iron!


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