Sunday, March 4, 2012

Which year of Cadillac Eldorados have aluminum casing around the engine?

I鈥檓 a young female looking to buy her first car. I am in love with Cadillac Eldorados and want one badly. Someone told me some Cadillacs have aluminum casings around the engine; I鈥檓 wondering which years so I can avoid buying those years.Is a Cadillac a good car for your first car or should I buy a different Make? If you have any information or can help me at all I would greatly appreciate it! Thank you for your time?Which year of Cadillac Eldorados have aluminum casing around the engine?Let me answer your question this way. One day I'm at the self-serve car wash cleaning my Eldorado.A guy pulls into the stall next to mine to wash his car.He looks over and says,"I've always liked those cars".I ask him,"Are you married"?He answered"Yes".Then I ask him,"Can you afford to support a mistress on the side"?His response was,"No".So I tell him,"Then you don't want one.They're great when they're right.A royal pain in the A** when they're wrong.And generally take everything in your wallet to get them right again.Just like a woman"!!Which year of Cadillac Eldorados have aluminum casing around the engine?It's not aluminum casing around the engine. It's aluminum engine blocks with iron heads. They started building this engine in 1982. It was a fiasco, that 4.1 liter engine. In 1993 the Eldorado started using the Northstar engine, which is aluminum- the block and heads. They think they finally got things right, but engineered a "limp-home" feature when the cooling system might fail and overheat the engine, which you can bet would be destroyed by excess heat. That limping was supposed to prvent destruction or minimise it.



GM has been cutting their own throats building one aluminum engine or another since 1963, with the Olds Jetfire/ F85. The turbo versions would blow up all the time. The non turbos would just eat themselves if something as mundane as a burst radiator hose occurred. Yeah, aluminum is as good as a syphilytic prostitute with HIV, as an engine building material. Remember the Chevy Vega?



Want an Eldorado? Get a 1964. That was a real Cadillac. For a first car it is the worst choice you can make. Not to buy, but to maintain. Every part is big and expensive and very hard to work on. Your first car should be something cheap and easy to fix and you aren't going to keep but for a couple of years. First cars always take the most abuse. After you learn how to take good care of a car and have some money to do that, reach for something more premium.

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