Spec/Fact-based Car Quiz

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I'm pretty sure the 4.3L uis 3/4 of a 350 because if you take 262 and divide it by 6 you get 43.67 and if you take that number and multiply it by 8 you get 349.34. So it's a 350 for sure, plus everyone on the S-10 forum talks about it. Just ask the Blazer guy next time.
 
Does that mean anybody? Well here goes.

I was produced in limited numbers between 1991 and 1993. I came with a turbocharged 280hp 6 cylinder engine, and AWD. What am I?
 
Any chance of a nationality?

I was thinking maybe first shape Mitsi 3000GT VR4? Or a Galant VR4?

Edit: No, wait, it can't be a Galant. Some quick research proves that only second and third gen Galant VR4s had the V6 twin turbo.
 
filthyfish
Does that mean anybody? Well here goes.

I was produced in limited numbers between 1991 and 1993. I came with a turbocharged 280hp 6 cylinder engine, and AWD. What am I?
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Would that be the GMC Typhoon/Syclone based off the S/T platform, by any chance?
 
I tried to be vague as to not make it to obvious, but maybe it was.

You got it.

(maybe i should have read your post earlier, where you mention the "s10 forums", and given you a challenge!)
 
filthyfish
I tried to be vague as to not make it to obvious, but maybe it was.

You got it.

(maybe i should have read your post earlier, where you mention the "s10 forums", and given you a challenge!)
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Of course, BX knows anything relating to Chevy & GM trucks ;)
 
High-Test
and I'm 100% positive that the 3800 is 3/4 of a 305.


Somebody post one up. :)
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Umm.... I don't think so. The 3800 is a much smaller engine than the 350, of which the 305 shares the same block. I believe it is a narrower block.
Edit - Confirmed. It dates back to the Buick Fireball V6 from 1962. Since then it evolved to the 225, the 231, the "3.8", 3800 Series I, Series II, and the still-used Series III.
 
The 3.8L is 231ci if you divide that by 6 you get 38.62 and then multiply that by 8 you get 308.94, which would have been rounded to a 5.0L.

Also you'll never get an s-series question past me :lol:.

Anyways how about a question.

What was the first production car to have anti-lock brakes and what company is credited with inventing them?

Ya it's not that hard but I don't know a ton of car triva.
 
BlazinXtreme
The 3.8L is 231ci if you divide that by 6 you get 38.62 and then multiply that by 8 you get 308.94, which would have been rounded to a 5.0L.
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Yes, but the 3800's ancestry goes back to the Fireball V6 from '62, as Slicks said. It was around before the 305 was dreamed up, which was a result of gas prices (and is generally viewed as a dog).
 
BlazinXtreme
What was the first production car to have anti-lock brakes and what company is credited with inventing them?
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The '66 Jensen FF was the first production car to use anti-lock brakes. Dunlop developed the system for aircraft.
 
Oops it is the Jensen, the thing I was reading worded it wrong. But Dunlop didn't develope it for the car.
 
High-Test
and I'm 100% positive that the 3800 is 3/4 of a 305.
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There was no 305 in 1962. The 3800 was based on the same engine in the Olds Jet Fire turbo (thus 3/4 of a 3.5L aluminum block, but instead built in cast iron for cost considerations), later to be bored out. Both the small block and 3800 share some tooling, but the 3800 is not based on any small block produced today, and never was based on any other small block except the Buick V8's.
 
Bosch is right and the question was probably asked eariler, I'm just not good with trivia.
 
I was a Jeep salesman at one time, but is it lame of me to have looked this one up for specifics?

84-96 2.5 I4
84-86 2.8 V6
85-87 2.1 I4 diesel (short us run, UK till 93)
87-90 4.0 I6
91-96 4.0 I6HO
94-96 2.5 I4
97-00 2.5 I4
97-01 2.5 I4 diesel (UK)
97-01 4.0 I6
 
filthyfish
I was a Jeep salesman at one time, but is it lame of me to have looked this one up for specifics?
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Yes. :D

(you buggered up the years for the 2.5L turbodiesel though; the 2.5 replaced the 2.1 in 1994)
 
ok, ill try my hand at trivia again...

What was the first GM production car to use electronic fuel injection and an ohc engine with 4 valves per cylinder?
 
The Corvette ZR-1. DOHC (LT-1??), 32 valve motor assembled by Yamaha, if I remember correctly.

I'm being kicked off the computer, so if I get this right then the first one to read this can post a new question.
 
filthyfish
not the ZR-1, but the LT-5 was designed/built by Lotus.

Toronado is closer...
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The LT5 was the engine in the ZR-1

But Mercury Marine Corporation of Oklahoma assembled the engines.
 
skip0110
1975/76 Cosworth Vega had a 2300 "Dura-Bilt" EFI 4-valve engine
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Bingo! I did better this time than last, your go... I didnt think anyone remembered the american gem with british engine!



Your correct about the LT5 Cracker, I just forgot the details!:sly:
 

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