6A12, what is made of?

spetz · Post by **spetz** » Wed May 25, 2005 2:32 pm

On one of the forums someone said that the A in 6A12 means it's an aluminium engine.
To my knowledge Mitsubishi never made aluminium engines?
So how true is this? Or maybe its just alloy heads or something?

Black_FTOGPX · Post by **Black_FTOGPX** » Wed May 25, 2005 2:36 pm

The 6A12 is a cast Iron block with Alloy heads.

They only Mitsubishi engine that has an alloy block that i know of is the 8A80 V8. (there may be more, but im not sure)

to4garret · Post by **to4garret** » Thu May 26, 2005 11:54 am

the "A" in 6A12 denotes the block generation