I have such a soft spot for the SCX. 

Colin Wood

This story is actually the first time I had ever heard of the SCX, so color me interested.

bobzilla

In reply to Colin Wood :

190HP 7800rpm 2.3 in 1991. GM was making high hp high revving chain driven DOHC engines better than honda…. fight me. 

Peabody

bobzilla said:

GM was making high hp high revving chain driven DOHC engines better than honda…. fight me. 

I won’t. I don’t think GM really got credit for what a good motor it was at the time.

Love me some Quad4, I still have a set of each, H.O. and W41 cams in my shop just in case.

Robbie (Forum Supporter)

bobzilla said:

In reply to Colin Wood :

190HP 7800rpm 2.3 in 1991. GM was making high hp high revving chain driven DOHC engines better than honda…. fight me. 

Seeing as Honda wasn’t making chain driven engines…

I do love me some quad4.

iansane

My mother had a base achieva as a G car for a few weeks and holy hell was that a disappointing turd. I was just about to start driving so I rolled it around the neighborhood a few times. Yikes. It wasn’t until years later and understanding transmissions more that I realized that thing was very berkeleyed up.

APEowner

The Quad 4 was a great engine.  The cars that it came in were significantly less so.

bobzilla

Robbie (Forum Supporter) said:

bobzilla said:

In reply to Colin Wood :

190HP 7800rpm 2.3 in 1991. GM was making high hp high revving chain driven DOHC engines better than honda…. fight me. 

Seeing as Honda wasn’t making chain driven engines…

I do love me some quad4.

Nor many dohc engines at all. 

EDIT: in 1991 Honda was struggling to make 150hp from their 2.0L DOHC B20. It wouldn’t be until the mid 90’s that honda was making the same power but less torque with the B18C5

 

David S. Wallens

JG was driving this car when we met. 🙂 

Tom1200

Tom1200


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4/11/23 11:08 a.m.

I really liked these; a co-worker had one with some level of goodies on it (couldn’t tell you what model / trim level).

I remember a racer named Lou Ryba who ran one of these in a pro series.

As for the quad 4; the yellow sports racer in this picture is powered by a quad 4.



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