The Omni GLH and GLHS were for those that wanted a car that could tear around the race track on the weekends and take the kids to school during the week.
They weren't very fast. My BF's GF's father bought her a GLHS for her 16th birthday. My BF's `68 Mustang GT would easily outrun it. It torque-steered like a mothrerfucker and wanted to plant itself in the curb if you launched it without hanging on and countersteering for dear life. It was the pinnacle of unoptimized FWD hot hatches. It took some muscle to drive fast and she only kept it for a couple months. The twin-stick gearshift was a gimmick/fuel economy bastardization. It was essentially a 4-speed with a manual overdrive like 1965 MGBs had. But you had to use the clutch to engage it.
Those Omni's were really quick. My Dad was mad when we got smoked by one in our IROC-Z. They were horrible to ride in though. The suspension was stiffened so much to handle the motor it was like riding in an ox cart.
@OriginalFake That is not 100 perc true....new Bugatti Bolide can be faster than modern F1 with more than 1500Hp per ton. Standard F1 if iam correct have around 1200Hp per ton.
@OriginalFake Ofcourse it depend on track,with more corners and less straight in can be faster. Race car like unlimited 919 Evo or new 1250Hp Nissan GT-R NISMO LM can be same fast or faster.
I drove an Omni GLHS, number 404 to be exact. You held that steering wheel with BOTH hands! When it got into serious boost it wanted to go right off the road due to torque steer. That car was an absolute blast to drive!
I mean current V6s arent far off from that lol, they are all within 800-900hp and are 1600ccs in displacement and dont run kerosine and multiple engines per weekend :)
Hell yes they were , there was a guy who has one when I was carrying out groceries in 87 and the hood caught fire and he came out and put it out and all he said was "that may be too big of turbo" I was a V8 kid I had no clue
I remember at age 15 working on V8 US cars and a neighbor had a GLHS silver and blue , HE thought me power to weight at age early 15 I was working in a car I had bought. Wow thank you for the memories
The fun part about the CX500? The stock, n/a engine can easily handle a small turbo that boosts it up to 85ish hp. Only very minor 'upgrades' are needed, like rejetting the carbs, slightly heavier valve springs, and adding lighter/stronger pushrods. They are tough little engines. I built a pretty quick stripped Silverwing several years ago. I put the 500 heads on it, and rebuilt the engine, beefed up the valves, springs, pushrods and bigger carbs. All because I added a supercharger. Boy howdy, once I broke a hundred hp, that engine SCREAMED.
A simple "like" doesn't do justice for the work and research you do to make these videos. I consider myself a car-guy, but never even knew that Suzuki Cappuccino existed! Great video!
You forgot the 4E-FTE 1.3 liter turbo engine from the Toyota Starlet GT-Turbo and Toyota Starlet Glanza V. These engines are magnificent and are even by todays standards very quick. Other than that nice video!
The Chrysler/Talbot/Simca Sunbeam sold in Europe looked just like the Omni, despite them not sharing any body parts at all! We didn't get the turbo engines, but we did get the Lotus Sunbeam fitted with Lotus's legendary 2.2 litre twin cam engine. There are just a couple of Turbo Sunbeams in existence that were made by fitting the Esprit S3 turbo engine giving a whopping 270+ bhp
@@derxKai Hey! The car scene here? Pretty good but recently i saw a lot of Italians with german Cars... I mean if you want to be cool you must have a new Porsche or Audi these days :) but i think they are Crazy! There are some ppls in my Town that owns rly cool cars: alfa romeo 75 "America", i see 3 different lancia delta integrale everyday passing by my house, one guy has a Subaru Impreza 22b... My close friend had a vw golf MK2 GTI! I mean i love new Cars but the old 80/90s fashion is the real cool stuff in my opinion! I had an alfa 164 2.0L, and another friend of mine bought an M3 E46 😎 so yeah the car scene is good if you know where to look i Guess... I got the opportunity to go for a ride on a Yellow Ferrari 360modena when i was 18 (best esperience ever) and recently on Lotus Elise and audi quattro S1... Now i know that One day i have to buy a quattro somehow 😂
The mustangs and camaros of that era were an embarrassment and cars like the glh and all the japanese cars moved the american cars into the current era, or at least out of the 50's
I drove a GLHS at the time when it was new. It was a handful to drive in a straight line. When you'd punch it, it wanted to take out the car in the next lane. Or any street signs. Anywhere but straight ahead
You could almost consider the 500 you finished the video with as having 2 engines :D, it was only the US version that got the hydraulically controlled valves (Multi-air) as the 500s in the rest of the world all use the T-Jet engine instead! The newer Punto Evo and the 124 Spider got the Multi-air in Europe, while the Grande Punto got the T-Jet too.
MOPAR engines (Shelby GLH(S)) were Turbo III & IV. The I & II were for "actual" MOPARs. Although I believe the Turbo III made its way into a Spirit or Acclaim or something; the III was actually a VNT, but they had lot of problems and made the IV which I believe had a better turbo and made more power just not as wide a power band as the VNT
Nothing I love more than a literal wall of torque. Nothing, nothing, nothing, backwards into a tree! Ok, maybe not so much for actually living with, but they put such a smile on me to see and hear 😂
I read somewhere that all the blocks used for the M12 engines were road car blocks that had done over 100k km. BMW would strip the blocks bare, put them outside out the back of the workshop and piss on them for a year or so before machining them up. Apparently this would ensure the metallurgy was good enough to be used for F1. Or it could've all been an elaborate excuse to piss on things, you know what Germans are like..
Honda’s RA-16 F1 engine, used in the McLaren driven by Senna back in the day could make up to 1200 hp from 1.5L V-6… Engine life was measured in hours!
Those early/mid 1980's Dodge turbo cars were really cool. I remember going to a test/tune night at a local strip in the early 90's and watching an Omni GLHS destroy a bunch of Fox Body Mustangs and some Camaro's. Little car could scoot!
BMW M12 F1 had ~ 1400 b.h.p. in qualifying tune up. That would make him last for 3-4 laps of qualifying session. In the 2000's with Williams they were again, the most powerful engine on the grid, alas again , because of this the engine had a tendency do "Fat Man". BMW were eccetrics. They were in the F1 to prove that they can make the most powerful engine on the grid. Will it be able to finish the race and win was not on their priority list! %‑)
The Charade GTti was a car I always wanted - Porsche sound for a fraction of the cost. The FIAT (Abarth) 500 was just overpriced for what was offered (certainly in the UK where you either got 140 or 170PS) - 200PS would have made it better value, but even then not oustandingly fast at the top end because of the car's tallness (why does a car have to be so tall? I had a Renault Clio mk3 for many years and that was also unncecessarily tall, suffering a very limited top speed - so much headroom that a giant could have driven it). More pose than potential, but maybe that's how Italians like their cars?
Great video! I might see if I can find myself a Charade gtti xd. Btw, the RSA Dynamics video, I believe both cars were Porsche. I'm not sure where in the video but the Charade was a bright blue.
if u make a 2 part. u can add the prince engine, its the most powerfull 1.6 engine, block power capacity of 400 hp or 300 hp ( Peugeot RCZ R) without mods, only sotck . good video!
i think of over-spool just as i think of lag ... turbos obviously increase an engines's efficiency, and more so when work is done to decrease lag, over-spool and fit the use-able power-band. but i do find myself more drawn to frequency wave tuning working with variable valve timing tech.. maybe it is being a motorcyclist, ( we don't like lag ), but i have worked out nearly a half bar of boost in this way, with no turbo.. where mild frequency tuning, on fixed cam timing, is generally smoother, and can also be very efficient...it depends on the application, but well done turbo systems are no less impressive.
Visio how can you say anything about the BMW engine without mentioning it's nickname? Called Megatron it has probably the best "name" for an engine ever. Love the videos man, I've been a sub for 4-5 years and really enjoy the content. With the amount of power it made 40 years ago I am curious to not only see the difference in overall peak power and the shape or the power band using today's turbo technology.
It is a rebrand more than a proper nickname, BMW pulled out of F1 after I think it was 1986, but the engine lived on under the name of Megatron, and was supplied to Arrows. It was similar to what happened to the Renault engine of the late 90s being rebranded as Mecachrome, Supertec and Playlife :)
You've educated me on engines I've never seen before I would like your opinion on the Ford EcoBoost 3.5 what do you think of them... And maybe some old sea grave fire engine v12s
The Omni GLH and GLHS were for those that wanted a car that could tear around the race track on the weekends and take the kids to school during the week.
Amazing.
And then fall apart the next weekend
They weren't very fast. My BF's GF's father bought her a GLHS for her 16th birthday. My BF's `68 Mustang GT would easily outrun it. It torque-steered like a mothrerfucker and wanted to plant itself in the curb if you launched it without hanging on and countersteering for dear life. It was the pinnacle of unoptimized FWD hot hatches. It took some muscle to drive fast and she only kept it for a couple months.
The twin-stick gearshift was a gimmick/fuel economy bastardization. It was essentially a 4-speed with a manual overdrive like 1965 MGBs had. But you had to use the clutch to engage it.
@@Markle2k Yea, they were pretty brutal. Helped to give turbos a bad name in the '80's.Thank God the Japanese suck with it refined the whole package.
Those Omni's were really quick. My Dad was mad when we got smoked by one in our IROC-Z. They were horrible to ride in though. The suspension was stiffened so much to handle the motor it was like riding in an ox cart.
Nissan March Super Turbo, from mighty car mods fits perfectly in this category.
The BMW M12 F1, all the formula 1 turbo V6s of the 80's and all the rally cars, they sound incredible, compared to the current formula 1
Any engine sound better than modern F1...
@OriginalFake That is not 100 perc true....new Bugatti Bolide can be faster than modern F1 with more than 1500Hp per ton.
Standard F1 if iam correct have around 1200Hp per ton.
@OriginalFake Depend on race track...
@OriginalFake Ofcourse it depend on track,with more corners and less straight in can be faster.
Race car like unlimited 919 Evo or new 1250Hp Nissan GT-R NISMO LM can be same fast or faster.
@OriginalFake See this is why i write:Depend on race track.
Also both wehicles accelerate 0-300Km in nearly same times.
I drove an Omni GLHS, number 404 to be exact. You held that steering wheel with BOTH hands! When it got into serious boost it wanted to go right off the road due to torque steer. That car was an absolute blast to drive!
Sounds like a thrill ride. Just, with more ass raising adrenaline. 😂
The only blast he is feeling is that sudden kick called “torque steer.” Which, he literally just mentioned 😂😂
You would be sent to prison for a million years if you ran such a set up as the M12 in F1 today
Black flag report directly to Guantanamo Bay.
Yes banned forever:)
and for sure, some Karen would show up, yelling to you: "You are WORSE than HiTLeR!!"
I mean current V6s arent far off from that lol, they are all within 800-900hp and are 1600ccs in displacement and dont run kerosine and multiple engines per weekend :)
I had one of those 2.2l turbos in my dodge lancer shelby. It was badass.
Hell yes they were , there was a guy who has one when I was carrying out groceries in 87 and the hood caught fire and he came out and put it out and all he said was "that may be too big of turbo" I was a V8 kid I had no clue
@@cnance1972 that's wild.
Those Dodge Omni's were so fast for the time 😂 They made muscle cars of the era look really bad
These were called Talbot Horizons in the UK :)
I once rode in a high 11 second Omni. It was hysterical
That's because muscle cars of the era were really bad lol
Imagine, getting dusted back then by one of them and thinking there was something wrong with you. 😂😂
Bad enough to “shame” an 8 cylinder into submission. 😂
I remember at age 15 working on V8 US cars and a neighbor had a GLHS silver and blue , HE thought me power to weight at age early 15 I was working in a car I had bought. Wow thank you for the memories
The fun part about the CX500? The stock, n/a engine can easily handle a small turbo that boosts it up to 85ish hp. Only very minor 'upgrades' are needed, like rejetting the carbs, slightly heavier valve springs, and adding lighter/stronger pushrods. They are tough little engines. I built a pretty quick stripped Silverwing several years ago. I put the 500 heads on it, and rebuilt the engine, beefed up the valves, springs, pushrods and bigger carbs. All because I added a supercharger. Boy howdy, once I broke a hundred hp, that engine SCREAMED.
A simple "like" doesn't do justice for the work and research you do to make these videos. I consider myself a car-guy, but never even knew that Suzuki Cappuccino existed! Great video!
Thank you, Audrius!
not a bike fan but i'd love an 80's 90's one like in that True Lies scene
Kawasaki EX500, then in 2000 they called it the ninja500
2:00 this 4 cylinder engine sounds better than the modern v6 turbos
On top of the GLHS, they had a Super 60 upgrade package that included a larger turbo. Apparently they were hilariously quick
You forgot the 4E-FTE 1.3 liter turbo engine from the Toyota Starlet GT-Turbo and Toyota Starlet Glanza V. These engines are magnificent and are even by todays standards very quick. Other than that nice video!
Came looking for it too :(
Rip starbos, disrespected to death lol
The Omni GLHS is something I would love to have. I have a Saturn Ion Redline now, 2.0L S/C I4. I can keep up with a Abarth 500 tho😅
The Chrysler/Talbot/Simca Sunbeam sold in Europe looked just like the Omni, despite them not sharing any body parts at all! We didn't get the turbo engines, but we did get the Lotus Sunbeam fitted with Lotus's legendary 2.2 litre twin cam engine. There are just a couple of Turbo Sunbeams in existence that were made by fitting the Esprit S3 turbo engine giving a whopping 270+ bhp
I'm italian and i dropped a like on this video as soon as i saw a punto gt (turbo) on your list ;)
And what about the Abarth?
@@SkywalkerTibor really cool car too, but i grow up in the 90s and the punto turbo was a Legend back in the day!
@@Bsc8 I´m German but also like those tiny pocket Rockets from bella Italia. How´s the Car-Scene down there?
@@derxKai Hey! The car scene here? Pretty good but recently i saw a lot of Italians with german Cars... I mean if you want to be cool you must have a new Porsche or Audi these days :) but i think they are Crazy! There are some ppls in my Town that owns rly cool cars: alfa romeo 75 "America", i see 3 different lancia delta integrale everyday passing by my house, one guy has a Subaru Impreza 22b... My close friend had a vw golf MK2 GTI! I mean i love new Cars but the old 80/90s fashion is the real cool stuff in my opinion! I had an alfa 164 2.0L, and another friend of mine bought an M3 E46 😎 so yeah the car scene is good if you know where to look i Guess...
I got the opportunity to go for a ride on a Yellow Ferrari 360modena when i was 18 (best esperience ever) and recently on Lotus Elise and audi quattro S1... Now i know that One day i have to buy a quattro somehow 😂
@@Bsc8 beautiful engine sound in those alfas
I would put (albeit not very common) the Ecoboost Fox 1.0 in the 200 hp tune. It came in the Formula Ford Ecoboost and the M-sport Fiesta R2
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My dad had an Omni GLH is was a quick car for the time, it would outrun Camaro's and Mustang's of the same era
The mustangs and camaros of that era were an embarrassment and cars like the glh and all the japanese cars moved the american cars into the current era, or at least out of the 50's
Those 2.2 and 2.5s still are around some drag strips punching very hard...
I drove a GLHS at the time when it was new. It was a handful to drive in a straight line. When you'd punch it, it wanted to take out the car in the next lane. Or any street signs. Anywhere but straight ahead
omni goes like hell
@@joshuajacome8803 I had a 92 Chrysler LeBaron with the 2.5 turbo. That thing was a lot of fun to drive.
You could almost consider the 500 you finished the video with as having 2 engines :D, it was only the US version that got the hydraulically controlled valves (Multi-air) as the 500s in the rest of the world all use the T-Jet engine instead! The newer Punto Evo and the 124 Spider got the Multi-air in Europe, while the Grande Punto got the T-Jet too.
I would also put the 1.5 litre turbo v6 from the mclaren f1 cars of the 80's
MOPAR engines (Shelby GLH(S)) were Turbo III & IV. The I & II were for "actual" MOPARs. Although I believe the Turbo III made its way into a Spirit or Acclaim or something; the III was actually a VNT, but they had lot of problems and made the IV which I believe had a better turbo and made more power just not as wide a power band as the VNT
All of that 3 cylinders is a huge troll 😂😂
Nothing I love more than a literal wall of torque. Nothing, nothing, nothing, backwards into a tree!
Ok, maybe not so much for actually living with, but they put such a smile on me to see and hear 😂
I love the sound of the Abarth.
You do a good job on camera. Glad you decided to incorporate that into your videos.
Those Suzuki Capuccino and the Dodge Omni GLH they look so fun to drive
A true connosaur of automotive performance
That little Daihatsu SCREAMS
I read somewhere that all the blocks used for the M12 engines were road car blocks that had done over 100k km. BMW would strip the blocks bare, put them outside out the back of the workshop and piss on them for a year or so before machining them up. Apparently this would ensure the metallurgy was good enough to be used for F1.
Or it could've all been an elaborate excuse to piss on things, you know what Germans are like..
The Fiat 500 Abarth is such an angry little car, I love it!
Thanks for video, bro!
Particularly love your trucking diesel engine vids, and the diesel vids in general.
My “two-liter”, barely sees anything north of 160. So, I find this selection rather impressive. 😂
BMW M12 F1 with 1000+Nm, that's amazing!
it wont last 5000miles though
My Daihatsu 660 cc turbo engine churns out just a 60 hp...but it is the coolest engine for me
Def looking up racing footage of the Binmer after this video. Was going to stop this one and go find some immediately if you hadn't included some :p
7:56 I'm sold, I want a Suzuki Cappuccino
I didnt watched it yet but i see an Bmw M12/13 Powered Brabham on the Thumbnail, i hit like!
Paul Rosches Masterpiece!
..so lets watch it.
The Dodge Omni was a highly underrated car. With only a few mods you could get into the low thirteen/high twelve second territory,
Very nice mini turbo video
My friend's Dad has an Omni GLH they've added more chooch to. It's badass.
That 1.4l Abarth engine though sounds pretty damned good for a little one.
The F1 BMW was angry anyplace besides wide open throttle!
Honda’s RA-16 F1 engine, used in the McLaren driven by Senna back in the day could make up to 1200 hp from 1.5L V-6… Engine life was measured in hours!
How could you forget the smart roadster brabus, it has hold the record for a 3 cilinder engine power output (100Bhp/700CC) for several years
Finally you show yourself. Keep up good work
Those early/mid 1980's Dodge turbo cars were really cool. I remember going to a test/tune night at a local strip in the early 90's and watching an Omni GLHS destroy a bunch of Fox Body Mustangs and some Camaro's. Little car could scoot!
Very interesting video. Commenting to please the algorithm with "engagement" because I always enjoy your videos. :)
Much appreciated!
Small but mighty
BMW M12 F1 had ~ 1400 b.h.p. in qualifying tune up. That would make him last for 3-4 laps of qualifying session. In the 2000's with Williams they were again, the most powerful engine on the grid, alas again , because of this the engine had a tendency do "Fat Man". BMW were eccetrics. They were in the F1 to prove that they can make the most powerful engine on the grid. Will it be able to finish the race and win was not on their priority list! %‑)
FIAT POWER!!
This channel is getting better and better! :)
The Charade GTti was a car I always wanted - Porsche sound for a fraction of the cost. The FIAT (Abarth) 500 was just overpriced for what was offered (certainly in the UK where you either got 140 or 170PS) - 200PS would have made it better value, but even then not oustandingly fast at the top end because of the car's tallness (why does a car have to be so tall? I had a Renault Clio mk3 for many years and that was also unncecessarily tall, suffering a very limited top speed - so much headroom that a giant could have driven it). More pose than potential, but maybe that's how Italians like their cars?
Every engine is a tiny turbo engine these days
VizioRacer.....do a video about the 1980's "Hot Hatch" cars.
He already covered that topic in one of his old videos
@@TheSilverShadow17 Thanks. I will look for it.
Yaris GR ?
Nice work 👍👍 Even sources are listed! Gonna check out that GLH s'more 😁
I've never seen this guy's face until now
Another great vid, keep up the awesome work
The cx 500 turbo is my absolute dream bike
I'm sure I watched a video about leaving the M12 engine blocks outside in the weather and urinating on them and stuff to "toughen them up".
I love these videos, keep them up 👍🏻
Have you done a small car with big engine episode? My first car was a Fiat Ritmo 130 TC Abarth with a 2L engine with ITB. 950 kg and 130 hp.
What about the 2017 turbo smart car with a 899cc 3 cyl with 89hp and 100 lb-ft of torque?
I love this channel
M12 still the most insane 4cyl engine ever made
👍very Nice video mate! Like always!
DODGE OMNI = TALBOT HORIZON 😎
cast "eye-ron' ? haha yes!
The fuck is “turbo lag”, when my engine is about the size of a sports bike tire. 😂
Wow, I had an Omni GLH years ago. I miss that thing, nobody took it seriously.
Also, no Swift Turbo?
keep up the vids man love your stuff
Great video! I might see if I can find myself a Charade gtti xd.
Btw, the RSA Dynamics video, I believe both cars were Porsche. I'm not sure where in the video but the Charade was a bright blue.
I have a 2013 Dodge Dart with the Fiat Abarth engine.
The 500 Abarth makes all the right noises, without being that fast.
i don't know man there is a tractor that passes by my house every day that makes the exact same noises
@@cristianseminario7899 You might be mistaking that for a Harley Davidson.
7:23 how i feel in the backseat of my mums car
The small yet the mighty engines.
if u make a 2 part. u can add the prince engine, its the most powerfull 1.6 engine, block power capacity of 400 hp or 300 hp ( Peugeot RCZ R) without mods, only sotck .
good video!
i think of over-spool just as i think of lag ... turbos obviously increase an engines's efficiency, and more so when work is done to decrease lag, over-spool and fit the use-able power-band.
but i do find myself more drawn to frequency wave tuning working with variable valve timing tech..
maybe it is being a motorcyclist, ( we don't like lag ), but i have worked out nearly a half bar of boost in this way, with no turbo..
where mild frequency tuning, on fixed cam timing, is generally smoother, and can also be very efficient...it depends on the application, but well done turbo systems are no less impressive.
The new Toyota yaris gr4 is missing. But its a nice Video.
This is cool! Great video idea.
So cool !
I dont think that tiny car was gonna reel in that 911 on the track.
That system on fiat 1.4 turbo is called MultiAir...it is not very reliable...and is expensive to replace
Btw great video and greetings from Croatia
Renault 5gt, starlet Twin charged,no mention?
2 bar is the best pressure to run.
That Fiat punto Gt with the Portuguese plate is from Yuri Francês, not from Calvin MotorSport.
Awesome
With, an engine about the size of a Moped. I would believe that “turbo lag” everyone keeps talking about, would have been resolved.😂
If over 2,2l engine is "TINY", so 2,0l Impreza and Evo engines are even more TINY :D
The Dogde looks like a kadett.. a little bit
The M12 did run on special fuel to make such high power out. Rocket fuel.
It's mentioned in another video that during time trials they used pure toluene, so the motor didn't knock itself out under 4 bars of boost.
Visio how can you say anything about the BMW engine without mentioning it's nickname? Called Megatron it has probably the best "name" for an engine ever. Love the videos man, I've been a sub for 4-5 years and really enjoy the content. With the amount of power it made 40 years ago I am curious to not only see the difference in overall peak power and the shape or the power band using today's turbo technology.
It is a rebrand more than a proper nickname, BMW pulled out of F1 after I think it was 1986, but the engine lived on under the name of Megatron, and was supplied to Arrows. It was similar to what happened to the Renault engine of the late 90s being rebranded as Mecachrome, Supertec and Playlife :)
I never knew they called it Megatron
@@VisioRacer it's an awesome name for an engine that advanced F1 a great deal
Sad the glanza v didn't make this video
Daihatsu charade i have 2 of tose but they are 1.3 liter 4 sylinder and the base model 3 sylinder
I want that cx500 turbo
You've educated me on engines I've never seen before I would like your opinion on the Ford EcoBoost 3.5 what do you think of them...
And maybe some old sea grave fire engine v12s
The shot at 7:23 is hilarious