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Originally Posted by mikeyg36
The Hemi motors are good, but they can't hold a candle to the LS engines.
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didn't say if they could or couldn't, though I will say I have never had issues with any of my chevy's but Dodge on the other hand.
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Originally Posted by Stew
What? Only problem with the 5.9 was that it was a gas hog. The 4.7 high output in my Dakota has 160k miles and the only reason the original 4.7 went out was because the previous owner ran a 175 HP of nitrous through a dry kit and killed a cylinder. Actually it had just ruined a plug and he thought it had killed a cylinder, so he decided to run some more nitrous through and finished it. Brothers GC also had 200k on his original 4.7 and transmission, he regrets selling it for his CTS, but that is how it goes. Can't really say anything on the 360 in his Dakota RT though since it has not been a 360 for a long time, it is now a Hughes Engineering 426 stroker. Have not really heard of any electrical issues in their trucks either, though the GC was a 01 and the Dakotas are 99 and 01s respectively and would all been designed per Daimler, though my Patriot never any electrical issues and had 110k miles on it.
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There are good batches and bad batches, but as a former Chrysler tech I can tell you that there are more bad than good of the 4.7L and 5.9L motors out there, Chrysler quality has always been on the lower scope, it has gotten 10 fold better since Fiat took over, but the history of Chrysler from the 1980s until the mid 2000s was hit or miss on quality.
Might have something to do with all those beer and pot lunch breaks assembly line workers take.
