"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
10/03/2014 at 21:09 • Filed to: None
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"Grindintosecond" (Grindintosecond)
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I do. I remember how amazing it was. 2.4 liters and 180/190hp for the street.....from 1989. It was to be put in the 1989 Fiero....and subsequently demonstrated greater performance than the Corvette. So they killed it after 1988. This one had 900 horsepowers.
Kanaric
> Grindintosecond
10/03/2014 at 21:11 |
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GM likes shooting themselves in the foot. Something like this engine in a Fiero is what makes them not a bankrupt company years later.
AMC/Renauledge
> Grindintosecond
10/03/2014 at 21:17 |
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The Quad4 was 2.3L.
It was mildly reworked and bumped up to 2.4 in the late '90s, but by then, it was renamed "2.4L Twin Cam."
And even if the '89 Fiero lost no weight at all (and it would have gained weight, since the concept was bigger than the '88) and had the max 190hp, it would most likely not have beaten the 245hp '89 Corvette. The power-to-weight figures would have favored the Corvette. And the Quad4's 160 lb-ft of torque would have been crushed in pulling power by the 320lb-ft of the Corvette's 5.7L V8.
But still, the '89 Fiero with the hot Quad4 it would have been a little screamer (especially given its lack of balance shafts) and a very cool car nonetheless.
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Grindintosecond
> AMC/Renauledge
10/03/2014 at 21:23 |
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handling....handling. Sure the vette would have out grunted the fiero in any drag but in handling terms, the Fiero would have waxed it on any place that used cornering. The l98 v8 had a lower redline than the quad 4 and that's how the NSX outgunned higher power sports cars...buy having more revs and the mechanical advantage of staying in lower gears longer. I think the comparison between the two was much closer than numbers say.
deekster_caddy
> Grindintosecond
10/03/2014 at 21:54 |
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Quad 442!!!
Jedidiah
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10/03/2014 at 22:26 |
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The Fiero is a Chevette turned backwards.
The C4 Corvette wasn't exactly a bad handling car.
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Jedidiah
> Grindintosecond
10/03/2014 at 22:38 |
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I always wanted to get one of the later Twin Cams from about 2001 and build a midget car replica.
The Quad 4 had too small oiling passages and terrible timing chains. The water pumps were driven by the timing chains, so when they went bad they pretty much destroyed the entire motor.
They had somewhat fixed these issues by 2001
BaconSandwich is tasty.
> Grindintosecond
10/04/2014 at 11:52 |
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It was also used in this beast: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldsmobil…
BrianNutter
> Grindintosecond
10/04/2014 at 11:55 |
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I worked for Cj Batten the developer of the quad 4 used in the olds aerotech program. Very strong engine and the castings were race pieces. i took the 900 hp variant to Norwalk when David Shi was running the Silver bullet Civic and Shaun Carlson was there in the early days of sport compact racing and the Honda engines were only making 600hp at the time. They wanted to speak with us about an engine program, but never came to fruition. I also happened to own and autocross a 1988 Fiero Gt. The 86 corvette dominated Scca SS class for a decade and handily beat my 88. Leading me to buy a '94 c4 a decade later. The fiero was a better car in a lot of ways though and i miss it more.
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Grindintosecond
> BrianNutter
10/04/2014 at 20:48 |
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that is an excellent account. Thank you for that. I cant find a reason anywhere why they ended a very good, even by today's standard, engine. Emissions perhaps.