The 5.7 definitely got off to a bad start, but to make a blanket statement that they were a failure is incorrect. By 1980 they were great. The 78-79s were troublemakers, but the crate motors were covered under the warranty and those were better. Stanadyne procuring Roosa-Master was a major step forward, and shedding that miserable injector return system was a boon as well. The overall package couldnt have been that bad, they built them to at least 1984 that I know of, and built a V-6 version to put in smaller grocery-getters as well. So somebody must have been buying them. As Dean points out , in 84 the mandates required them to be smogged to death with EGR and electronic controls on the injector pump; not horsepower kings to begin with, made them even more sluggish. They went out of production for the same reason every other engine does. Technology moves on. We watched this with the Cummins HRB, to the C and J series, to the 855, then the Big Cam, on to the L-10..... all the way to today. Whatever the 5.7s shortcomings were, nobody complained about 30 mpg on a Delta 88 or a Sedan de Ville.
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