Best/least bad version of M96/97

[mack73]

Originally Posted by Jake Raby

The 2.7 by far is THE best engine. This goes for the 5 chain and 3 chain variants.

Last year I only saw 2 of those engines fail, and one had 190K miles on it when it popped.

Dang, I thought I was all set in looking for an 'S'.... but now I read this..............

[Smallblock454]

Originally Posted by Qmulus

Now I wonder if there is such a thing as a "good" M96/97

Yes, the cars with the Mezger engines. They seem to fail much less - around 0.5 to 1%. Which is a very normal number if you campare it to other sports car manufacturers.

The DFI engines are new from scratch, that's right, But they also have problems.

I would go with a water cooled Mezger.

PS: Never forget, that the production in the Wiedeking era was driven by as low as possible production costs and by a maximum in production efficiency.