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Sorry for the unfortunate circumstances. I've had my '86 Pontiac 6000 for 9 years now and put on 90k miles since I acquired the car (165k total as of now). As far as reliability goes, the Pontiac has my Volvo beat, but I sure wouldn't want to be in an accident in the Pontiac.
If you're looking for a reliable GM engine / transmission. Try the Iron Duke (2.5 Liter 4-cylinder) and the T-125 automatic 3-speed transmission. Together, they're a great combo. My friends and I who have owned cars with this combo will agree, this was Detroit steel of better than average quality and properly designed to compliment one another. Don't take this to mean that the cars are bulletproof, since a few missed oil changes after 100k will start causing some lifter chatter. -But if you keep up the regular maintenance items, these cars were very reliable. The only time my Pontiac died on me was when an electrical connector failed at the inductive-pickup sensor in the distributor.
Also, the Iron Duke has a HUGE amount of low end torque. It would beat the pants off just about any 6-cylinder vehicle in a race from 0 to 8 mph. The iron blocks only produced about 100 to 110 peak hp, but the low-end torque values were abnormally high.
FYI, the replacement to the Iron Duke was the Quad-4 and they typically only lasted about 100k miles. I think the aluminum head and some other cost saving measures doomed this engine before it left the factory...
God bless,
Fitz Fitzgerald.
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'87 Blue 245, NA 228K
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