# LOL anyone on here buy a 3.5L or 3.9L GM car in the last few days here?? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [September 22, 2006, 9:29am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-anyone-on-here-buy-a-3-5l-or-3-9l-gm-car-in-the-last-few-days-here/17859 "2006-09-22T09:29:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![HotRodKid](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/hotrodkid/32/7609_2.png) [@HotRodKid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/HotRodKid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2006, 10:39am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-anyone-on-here-buy-a-3-5l-or-3-9l-gm-car-in-the-last-few-days-here/17859/8 "2006-09-22T10:39:55Z")
> [@Silver](#): > > Ouch. Wouldn’t they issue a recall for potentially affected vehicles? Or is it not bad enough for that? bad cams is a VERY bad problem the only thing worse is soft cranks or soft rods when cams break, if they break in 2 places, thats a big chunk of steel that has to make it past the spinning crank w/o hitting anything … if it gets between the crank and block its instant catastophic engine failure i once saw one of the early 80’s 60\* 173ci engines (IIRC) that blew apart from the same problem, a section of the crank was hanging out the side of the block it doesnt help that cams are relativly soft to begin with, its usualy pretty easy to give one a wack on the ground and break it in 2 or 3 places --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/lol-anyone-on-here-buy-a-3-5l-or-3-9l-gm-car-in-the-last-few-days-here/17859)._