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Originally Posted by S.J.SLEEPER
Berretta..... = doors falling off going down the road
2.8 3.1 etc... valve cover gasket design
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if you mean the Lower Intake Manifold Gaskets on the 660's then nah the design on them were fine, its just when they moved to dexcool they didnt realize the dexcool would eat away the rubber inlays over time and create a ''blown head gasket'' type symptoms. lots of people got rid of a lot of good motors over a really cheap and easy fix.
which brings me to berettas. im a beretta fan just as much as i am of fbodies. theyre cars that have never failed me. a lot of them fell apart from cheap interiors but mechanically these are some of the best and most reliable cars you can own...granted as long as it was the 2.0/2.2 or the 2.8/3.1. the things not a lot of people know about berettas is that they were a test model for a lot of things gm ended up putting into their later cars. hell there are even fwd v8 and awd twin turbo v6 concepts of these floating around...and theyre amazing.
another little known fact...before all these kids were pining over their dohc hondas, gm was already ahead of the game with a 180ish hp dohc 2.3 l four banger known as the quad 4. it was totally ahead of its time but without the beretta and other little known gmfwd cars as a test bed for the 2.3, becoming the 2.4 twin cam in the z24's the ecotechs later on in the future might not have been as good learning all the ins and outs of a 4 cylinder running on a higher output than most.
If they had released them in america with the euro headlights it wouldve sold a bit better i think. it really shows the whole baby camaro idea off. this is a pic of a fully restored (laugh i know its funny to you) Beautiful MQBM Beretta GTZ from Europe.
more pics can be seen here
http://www.quad4forums.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=19812