Posted by sleeperspirit My dad had a monte Carlo with the 3.4 quad cam that thing was quick, but a pain in the ass to work on that's for sure.
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the 3.4L DOHC was a powerful little pile of shit, but it was so indicative of what was WRONG with GM in the early 90's. Instead of designing a clean sheet DOHC V6, the confobulated one out of the venerable 60-degree V. It was heavy and inefficient, especially in the cam drive design.
you had a hollow camshaft in the normal space driving the oil pump which was driven by the timing chain off the crank. Then you had an intermediate pulley on the block- cam pulley that drove the cams on either head and that belt was 2.5" wide. The only kudos that I gave GM was actually putting a manual transmission behind the 224hp 6.
Automatics were a far more lackadaisical 205hp.