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Basically 305 and 350 cci gas engines retooled as diesel engines as a "quick fix" solution to the growing popularity of diesel cars in the late 1970's and early 1980's. The engines couldn't handle the increased compression and other forces of the diesel combustion process and blew with alarming regularity.
Soured a generation of Americans on diesel cars.
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