These Six-Cylinder Engines Were LITERALLY Hard to Kill..

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[markdubois]

The Ford 300 and the slant 6 are "kill it" motors....they don't die.

[marksoldier]

The ecoboost v6 does not deserve a spot in this video. Nothing but problems from water pump to timing parts and others.

[twatdidusay]

The slant 6 did not start out as a 225hp engine, it started out as a 225 c.i.d. engine.

Edit, the smallest slant 6 is a 173 c.i.d.

[JosephCowen-fzvj]

My god you missed the best six of all ! The Ford Australia Barra 4.0 Turbo 24 valve, factory standard 436 Hp, variable valve timing and lift. Not bad for a motor that started in 1960 at 144 ci and evolved through the years, in production untill 2017 . 1200 hp stock bottom end, well over 3000 hp with all the good bits, they even make billet blocks and heads now as well as forged stroker cranks to take it out to 5.1 litres .

[kellismith]

My old F150 with 300 I-6 has 450k and still going strong, great engine

[kurtbarrett]

I happen to be a Mopar guy, but I have nothing but love for GM's 3.8/3800 and Ford's 300!

It may seem kinda cockeyed but, I have to laugh every time I hear how great the "leaning tower of power" is! I think I'm probably the only one who's had two of them grenade within a two year period. One was in a 70k mile one owner Duster, that I had all maintainence records for and it puked the #6 rod right out the oil pan. It began to rattle out of the blue, on flat ground cruising down the freeway and didn't even hold til I could baby it a half mile to the next exit. The second was in the same car, with the engine plucked from a 110k mile Scamp that I got from a 90yr old lady who wrecked it and it also had meticulous maintainence records. Like deja-vu, it jettisoned the #5 and #6 rods on the same friggin freeway, but this time I was pulling a decent hill as I tried to get to an exit. With that, I swore off the 225 Slant Sickness!

[jadenamoako]

the gmc big block deserves a spot. those were very reliable 6 cylinders

[shabadoo]

The old pushrod straight 6 engines were hard to kill. The 258 AMC

[repnatl]

GM 3800 was amazing. Especially the L67 variant. Just like honda v6's, the transmissions are why ppl junk them.

[davidrochow]

In Australia the Valiant 245 and 265 were pretty much indestructible.

[markchapman]

Loved my old 1993 F150 with the 4.9 inline 6. Thing wouldn't die even when I scrapped it still ran great. She just rusted out on me. Joys of living in the Rust Belt.

[romulascott]

The Ford 170 to 200 inline 6 was produced from about 1960 to about 1985. Easy to work on. Also the AMC 232 inline 6 was produced for years.

[badazz]

Gm surplus v6 engines definitely deserve a spot. Available in a 3.1l, 3.4l, 3.5l, and 3.9l. I personally have an 07 equinox with the 3.4l that is heading to the scrapper because the alternator took a shit and the trans is slipping sitting at 428k miles and never even had a valve cover removed.

[dennisyoung]

The 250 Chev 6 is a decent one. So is the slanted six. Have had both.

[cozzoli]

Dodge 3.8 and 3.3 are pretty hard to kill

[chevyboyforlife]

The ford 3.5 is one of the worst engines...timing chains was horrible....I've owned a few and had nothing but problems

[bmeiubc]

@ 7;18 in the video those are ford F, E motors going down the line

[marksoldier]

My dad has a 2024 mega cab 3500 with that Cummins motor. Are you sure they are discontinuing it? Not only that, it's not up to 600lb ft. It's actually up to 1050lb ft. That's what my dad has.

[MisterDearly]

I feel like you missed the Ford Duratec 3.0. Mine has 240k. It was a Porsche design. You will see tons of older Ford Escapes on the road with this engine.

[susiedyer]

In my opinion Ford had the .300 inline 6 and in my opinion was and still is a work horse of an engine it had a really great bottom end to it and coupled with 4 speed tranny u had urself a power house that would last a million miles and the u have the greatest inline 6 ever made cause u just can't kill theses motors and this engine has such a unique sound when being started and if u haven't guessed it here it is it's the Mopar slant 6 best fkn motor ever made pound for pound can't nothing touch it except the f.300