3.4L engines Experiences please?

[pingman22]

Looking to get a 95 Monte Z34 SS w/3.4L. Your experiences the engine good and bad would be appreciated, please?

[GMMerlin]

Originally Posted by pingman22

Looking to get a 95 Monte Z34 SS w/3.4L. Your experiences the engine good and bad would be appreciated, please?

Good cars with lots of power.
But as a GM tech, I wouldn't own one (a 3.4) if you gave it to me and paid for it.
Timing belt is a PIA to replace
Hide and go seek Alternator

[DOUG-O34]

i have a 3.4 L monte and i love it. yes you have to remove the pass. side tire to get the alternator, and the oil leak everyone talks about. but my car has 140k miles and drives like the day i baught it. i love it.

[wpbharry]

From what I can gather, the '95 and earlier versions were okay, not great, but OK. Because of OBD II, introduced in the '96s (and I had one of the first), things for that model year were awful. My engine lasted only 10.7K miles (after 2 PCM failures and then a stuck cam), and as a result the trannie was on the way out when I ditched the car (before the engine swap). '97s were a tad better, but more trouble-prone than the '95 and earlier ones.

Bottom line is that it was a pretty sorry experiment on GMs part.

[mizredZ34]

I have a 97 Z34 3.4L DOHC with 214,000 miles on the original engine. It's still going strong!

Rose

[Kension]

I have a 95 z34 3.4L dohc that had a cracked block and ran from about 67,000 miles on it, including bracket racing at a drag strip it pulled 11.2 sec in an 1/8 mile consistently I can not speak highly enough about this car and engine.

[monte carlo1]

Originally Posted by Kension

I have a 95 z34 3.4L dohc that had a cracked block and ran from about 67,000 miles on it, including bracket racing at a drag strip it pulled 11.2 sec in an 1/8 mile consistently I can not speak highly enough about this car and engine.

i have a 95 z34 with the 3.4 dohc with 108,000 miles and still going strong