<VV> GM(garbage motors) 4-6-8 Caddy engine mgt system

[Tamias Metis]

Absolutely horrible!  GM squandered any engineering prestige during that period.  Problem was "hubris" thought that they were the untoucheable giant.  What trash! Ditto the diesel produced from an Olds 350.  During the first gas crisis of late '73-74,   GM  found themselves without a decent engine with physical dimensions small enough to place into a smaller car.   All they had at the time was the excellent Chevy inline six which produced good economy and reliability  but they had nothing else..... Luckily, they were able to buy back the old V6 from AMC  after   GM product developers  placed  a junkyard early '60's Buick V6  into design project after realizing there was nothing else worth using and nothing on the design board.  Fortunately for GM,  who sold all the production tooling to Kaiser Jeep in the mid 1960's,  AMC got it when they acquired Kaiser Jeep around '69 or '70.   AMC mothballed the V6 in favor of their excellent small block V-8 and excellent 232 in line six
 both developed in the mid '60's.  Stupidly, AMC did not realize  the  ex-Buick V6 would have helped them had they improved the firing order as GM did after getting it back .  AMC's  232 though a really good engine like GM's in line six,  but the AMC in line six is physically longer and heavier than GM's 250  Chev inline six.  AMC would never again have a  compact powerplant that would go into  a  small  car.....   GM has certainly done many things right and are responsible for quite a lot of engine/engineering masterpieces  but the one time biggest in the world shamelessly dumped too many dog poo vehicles on the public.  Make the body and interior really pretty... Mr & Mrs Consumer will continue to be loyal GM buyers...where as Ford's slogan at the time was Quality is Job 1 ,  at GM it seems , the slogan at GM must have been Quality is Nowhere To Be Found!   Ah,  the X-Cars were engineering marvels, as was the superb Vega  engine and that magnificent 4-6-8 Caddy engine
 management system.   Seriously though its a pity that the OHC Pontiac 6  was abandoned and that Corvair development ended ...-had GM engineers been able to marry electric fuel injection to the Corvair as Volkswagen did with help from Bosch on the 1968 Squareback, and Fastback(the 1st use of electronic fuel injection  on a mass produced automobile).    That old reacquired V-6   from the '75 model to today is responsible for much of GM's good points along with the old faithful Chev small block,  still its a pity  the fine powerplants engineered by the other divisions were totally abandoned.   The 4-6-8 system ranks even higher at the top of GM masterpieces than the oem riveted flywheel on the Vair.                  Tamias  Metis


       
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