Originally Posted by
Mars_302
There was some other late model buick/olds that had a dohc v6, I think it was a 3.5 based motor. The LQ1 was fwd and I think made 200 or 210 hp. In my dealings with it, its nothing more than old 3.1 pushrod motors converted to DOHC. My parents had both a lumina Z34 and monte carlo z34. Cool little motors, but they liked to eat up alternators due to no cooling for them
And alternators are a royal pain in the ass to change on those. I think the labor manual calls for 4.5 hours iirc. and it takes almost every bit of that.
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