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To: Jonathan Quick who wrote (28795)	5/9/1998 6:10:00 PM
From: Marshall	Respond to of 33268

Yea, OK, I'll keep a good watch on those things. I don't know where you're getting your reliability performance stats for that 3800 engine but from what I've heard they're equal or better to the old mainstay Chevy 350 engine that GM has produced for eons in various versions, of course I can only say that if you totally ignore some of those "disaster runs" of the 305 variations as well as that attempted diesel conversion. It's sad what one has to pay for a new car nowadays - even worse when you realize they're taking shortcuts in most of them in order to be able to sell them at that price. It isn't always the manufacturers' faults either - so many components are now being outsourced that quality control is in the hands of many different people. A good friend of mine worked for Mercury Marine in Stillwater and happened to be there at the time the Corvette engines were being manufactured. It seems that they were having trouble getting good "in tolerance" yields on some of the valve train components for the engine and of course he was rejecting anything that didn't fall under GM designated specs. Despite his complaints and suggestions as to how the manufacturing procedures could be tightened up the Senior management decided to "allow a few extra digits" in their "go/no-go" testing. Since he wasn't interested in signing off any work under these conditions he tried complaining to higher levels and was immediately offered the opportunity to "shut up or resign" - he resigned. Funny, wasn't long afterwards that we started seeing articles from the field about camshaft bearings occasionally seizing up on cold startup. I think this turned out to be an expensive lesson for both companies.