Wow! Who knew? Guess I'll replace my LB6 with an 3.8 E Type engine.
Now all I have to do is find a DB6 AND an E type engine.......
Dave W.
On 7/29/2011 12:06 PM, Kirk Hargreaves wrote:
> I guess you could file this under "what were they thinking?"
>
> I was reading a magazine that I picked up in the UK a couple of months ago
> with an article by Tony Tocock. Tocock was Aston Martin's service engineer
> and race mechanic during the era of the 50's and 60's.
>
> > From page 61 out of the June issue of *Thoroughbred& Classic Cars* Tocock
> writes about the quality issues of the DB6 engine. (Lagonda Bentley 6 Cyl).
>
> Very interesting (at least to me). Tocock joined Aston Martin in
> 1950. *(David
> Brown* acquired *Aston Martin* in 1947 and Lagonda the following year).
>
> Quote from the article:
>
> *"The LB6 was a bad engine. When David Brown bought the company it was one
> of the first twin overhead camshaft engines in a conventional car. Jaguar
> jumped on it pretty soon afterwards and beat us hand over fist simply
> because it's engine had a normal cylinder block and a seven bearing crank.
>
> The LB6 had a four bearing crank with aluminum cheese bearings. They were
> absolutely diabolical. To think of a DOHC six cylinder on four bearings!
>
> The blocks were weak too. It was a disaster and it was a wonder the
> warranty rates didn't break the firm. I can remember at one time having
> four customer engines under my bench waiting for attention."
>
> -------------------------------------------
>
> *I guess this might be considered one of the low points in British
> engineering.
>
> Kirk *
>
> *
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