Blowing up a Chevy Quad4 motor in oldsmobile achevia no oil

[ChargedCMOS]

Hmm, that was unexpected., I mean, I thought I would see something more violent.

[MyLimpIsGangsta]

Can't believe all this Quad 4 hate I'm seeing here. Understandably the older Quad's had some issues and may not have been AS reliable as later versions. If maintained properly they run for a long time. Had over 200k on my 95 and that was with me beating the piss out of it.

[Texassince1836]

@MyLimpIsGangsta the 3.8 vin k v6 was better...got one in a 95 pontiac

[chevysb400]

I love how this guy says the engine was on its last leg but it started right up and ran and reved just fine, even without oil. Fucking Retards that are in this world.

[shinyfuzzy]

@chevysb400 u do not know about cars and engines, go away

[chevysb400]

@shinyfuzzy Okay don't EVER try and tell me i know nothing about engines or cars. I can fix anything from a lawn mower to a bull dozer. I've worked on just about everything except toyota and honda pieces of shit, those i would blow up and send to the scrap yard. Go fuck yourself and maybe next time you will post a useful comment instead of one suggesting you still suck on your moms tits for breakfast.

[SweetJaneofGoth]

My granpap says the Vega was the best and that youall are just a bunch of dumb kids.

[chrisbarry44]

shes a spitter

[fordtransman]

My 89' Quad Four has 214k miles on it.. original long block. Best GM engine ever if you change the oil.

[WhoSaidTyler]

That's funny that all the backyard mechanics who apparently got overwhelmed by these engines totally ignored the fact that so far NO GM 4-cylinder engine has made more horsepower than the Quad4. That "shitty" 3.4? It had to be electronically derated over 50hp because Hydramatic could not keep a 4T60 trans alive behind them. You guys shouldn't automatically bash engines because you find them too hard to work on. Maybe stick to a 150hp 305.

[zaklange]

GM should stick to their pushrods...

[billyzcruzin69]

I've had many GM's that have gotten close to 200K still running and looking like new... I don't see the big rage against the GM engines...Maintainance seems so FOREIGN to people...

[tona6g72]

Quad 4 and the 3.4 DOHC are 2 of the most shitty engines GM made.

[spoolinaround]

I couldnt agree more

[mtlmikeh]

@tona6g72 I agree the Quad 4 was crap, but I had one of the first 3.4L Twin-DOHC engines in my 91 Z34 and I sold it with almost 300,000km. The engine and 4-speed auto both worked perfect and were original and never had a single problem. The engine was always run on synthetic blend oil, and of course had the timing belt done three times at that point, and the transmission was flushed every 2 years, so it's prolly just a case of them needing regular maintenance.

[PolishMuscle1981]

Damn that car sounded like shit!

[CJMN91]

it says oldsmobile at the top

[elgrandechorizo]

this car isnt even a ford...

[spoolinaround]

no shit?!?!?!?!

[crazyracer002]

Fords are great. I got a 2006 F250. Modified to stink, bully dog programer, twin turbo, dual stacks, smoke switch, ram air. 842horse 901ft/lbs of torque.

[estidecrissdemarde]

ford suck shit

[ashho56]

you suck shit, ford is the best

[EmX3Ed]

diesel fords, good. OTHER FORDS BAD

[ashho56]

i can and cannot agree. i never had a ford fail high revving of any sort. chevy always blow up!

[rrrandommman]

omg love the fart noise when it died

[poppiesrule]

why didnt you just floor the gas?

[spoolinaround]

I didnt want to piss off my neighbors more then I already had also it had 150k miles

[chotochato]

Sorry bout that. You're right, i shoulda been more specific.

The Olds Cutlass Calais became known as Acheiva after the 92-93 model year...only about 2% of them came with that Quad 4.

How many miles did the motor have?

[chotochato]

thanks for correcting that (and me). Olds Cutlass Calais later became Acheiva. oops..

How many miles did it have?

[chotochato]

thats clearly the front end of and Olds Cutlass...that Quad 4 was a bitch to work with but its development paved the way for GM's Ecotec engines we see today.

[spoolinaround]

I am looking at the title right now and it clearly says Oldsmobile Achevia

[spoolinaround]

gm.... chevy....olds....pontiac.....c­addilac..... they are all junk just like ford...mercury, dodge,chrystler,jeep, eagle, DSM's and all imports

lol im sure I will piss off someone with that comment

[supersnot4]

well i like fords but i liked the rest of that comment.

[spoolinaround]

I like fords too, I really like my 78 Ford f-150 supercab

[supersnot4]

i love my '89 f-250 reg cab, and it only has a 5.0. we also have 2 brand new f-150s, a super cab with the 5.4 and a super crew with the 4.6. for is size that 4.6 is very powerful, and it's a v-8 so it's not punched out and therefore is extremely hard to blow. both are great trucks and i have no complaints. our '03 f150 has over 1k miles on it and is totaly stock down to the battery, and has had a load on it its whole life, except just recently. runs great, too.

[dasikotm]

my toaster will out live any ford and if you would like to drag your dreaming !

[supersnot4]

hey, bring it. i'll take up a drag anyday. unfortunately all we hae right now is trucks, which are not made for drag racing, although our new f-150 is pretty sweet when you gun it from zero, or from anything else for that matter. and i'll run over your toaster any day thank you very much. you know what? i'll go run over the first toaster i see.

[emmanuelnimmons]

Toaster! LOL!

[supersnot4]

seriousely, i went and ran over a toaster.

[Texassince1836]

@supersnot4 1,000 (1k) miles? ive had shoes that have damn near made that....my 1979 gmc has 500,000 miles....

[thekidrocks72]

Why the comments on the "Chevy" Quad 4? The Quad 4 was an Olds engine. If you overlook the Diesel Olds 260/350 fiasco (which I think was a corporate screw-up as much as Olds), this is the only Old engine I can think of that was total junk. And junk it was!!!

[supersnot4]

well oldsmobile is gm, as is chevy. they are exactly the same thing. so, therefore, it's just as much a CHEVY quad 4. also, more people know chevy than olds, so they call it chevy. it's just a more popular name.

[thekidrocks72]

Unlike Ford and Chrysler, GM used to have division engines. They had 4 brands of 350 engines(for example), none the same at all. While that changed, each division still made certain engines, and there were duplicates such as the Buick 4.3 and Chevy 4.3 V6's - far from the same. So to say the Quad 4 was Chevy is about as accurate as saying the Northstar is a Chevy engine.

[supersnot4]

ok, my mistake. but either way chevy is the more popular name, and both are gm. we can both agree on that as the reason he says "chevy" ¿RIGHT?

[smeegma]

YES! As a mechanic, anyone who takes these wretched engines out of service is cool by me!

Kill more, kill many more.

The only thing Quad 4s are good for is ensuring the car goes to salvage when they blow.

[Airox180]

I know they´re a pain to work on. But fix them properly and they will run just fine. My 92 GTZ has over 200000 kilometers done with the original engine. Did one head gasket swap with a new and revised Felpro gasket and since then never had a problem. I never rev the engine past 2500 rpm when cold though.

[bentboybbz]

so...normally you can get 200 000 MILES out of a gas motor

[stevef474]

yeah, i drive alot for work , just traded in a 96 lumina that had 276,000 for a new impala....still have a 2.2 s10 with 247,000 miles on it. change the oil and no jigger rig your repairs and they'll live forever

[Texassince1836]

@bentboybbz you can get a million out of a chevy motor wit a 4.0 inch bore

[supersnot4]

well thats a chevy for you, it didn't take as long as i thought it would.

[91STR0K3R383]

only cause its a pos motor not like a v8 chevy those r fuckin hard to blow

[supersnot4]

dude any chevy engine is easy to blow, as is any dodge engine, and maybe ford, if you really try. and chevy makes many v8s, which 1 are u talking about? they are all different.

[73DrtSprt]

Dodges small blocks and /6 are damn near indestructable

[spoolinaround]

I will agree, I still think the 225 Slant 6 and the Ford 300/6 are the two best engines out there

[73DrtSprt]

well ford products suck ass. im a Mopar guy

[supersnot4]

currently owning 2 f150s and an f250, plus many other fords and a couple chevys in the past i have to say you're wrong about fords. fords are awesome and i've never had 1 problem except a blown fuse from sticking a bubble gum wrapper in the cig. lighter. and an alternator from a loose battery terminal.

[supersnot4]

the problem with dodge is mainly their trannys, their engines are pretty good. but im a ford guy.

[Hiei2k7]

Dodge AND Ford Transmissions. Neighbor had an Escort for 3 months and the Transmission gave out badly.  No gear at all.

[supersnot4]

that must be from serious abuse because no tranny should go out that fast. probably put it in reverse when going 50 mph forward.

[Hiei2k7]

He drove slower than my grandpa ted.

[supersnot4]

and how ffast did ur grandpa drive lol. my grandpa is nuts behind the wheel.

[Hiei2k7]

HE's that guy you cuss at for going 40 in a 55.

[supersnot4]

lol well ur nighbor must have had the brake on at the same time as the tranny, left the parking brake on, or something. maybe bottomed out on a rock an busted something up because there is no tranny that i know of that under normal circumstances (unless it's defective) that will go out that fast. if it's new then it wasn't broken in so if he was holding his brakes on that would be the problem.

[spoolinaround]

um ok...... it is a chevy motor

[hondabait]

tech 4 or quad 4?

[spoolinaround]

it is a quad4 they are 2.2l with an aluminum head whereas the tech4 is a 2.5 with cast iron head and they stopped making them in 92

[mralero]

actually they never made a 2.2 quad for they made a 2.3 quad 4 dohc, sohc, and high output dohc, then the renamed it overhead cam and made it 2.4, luckily i have the 3.4 v6 and not the quad4. o yea and the 2.2 was a different motor all together and they still make the 2.2 ecotech

[91MyocyteX]

WHY?

[spoolinaround]

because I can and I wanted to..... good enough reason for me!

[PresidentBusch]

Ha ha, the good ole Quad 4....prolly woulda done the same thing WITH oil. LOL!

[spoolinaround]

you speak the truth! lololol

[jdsanchez473]

You obviously don't know a whole lot about q4's ... maby you should only talk shit on things you know for a fact are crap, but i guess considering your nickname, you don't know a whole lot :)

btw.. a q4 is 2.3l not 2.2...

[spoolinaround]

2.3/2.2 I dont give a fuck all quad4's are junk PERIOD just like Dodge 2.7's

[Airox180]

They`re not junk at all. They only had a bad reputation because of the faulty stock head gasket. Swap it for a new Felpro and the Quad 4 will last for a long time. Mine still runs fine and revs up to 7400 rpm if needed.

[lolinternets1]

wow that didn't take very long.

[XxXFudgeXxX]

filter ?

[XxXFudgeXxX]

sounds healthy

[spoolinaround]

it is just like new with 230k miles

you can still smell that new car smell

[spoolinaround]

snipped the trans cooler lines on the radiator to yank it and there was still some oil in the tranny so it squirted everywhere, you can see it squirt fluid

[mustangman66]

how did you get oil on your camera if you drained all the oil

[PresidentBusch]

Well, unless he went in and completly tore the engine down, wiped it out, deflated all the lifters, cleaned all the bearings, etc., there is still residual oil that can splash out.