GMC Syclone Documentary (History and In-Depth Review) | Truck Central
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- Опубліковано 16 лип 2024
- The GMC Syclone is one of the most interesting truck stories of the 90s, and this truck in particular has an interesting story as well! Enjoy!
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Fun fact! In 1991 the Syclone was quicker than a Ferrari 348 in the 1/4 mile, vaulting it right into the history books.
In my humble opinion, absolute perfection.
A great example of what happens when you let American car engineers do what they want! No market segment to meet, no price point to achieve, no major changes from corporate.
It was so ahead of its time - turbocharged, automatic transmission, 4wd (if you dig and research around, they have an amazing service history as well - rock solid).
I think it’s fitting that it only came in black - it was a truck that changed the mind frame of the automotive world. Much like another vehicle that only came in black - the Model T.
All that having being said - I bleed red, white, and blue. So, I’m biased.
Love the car story. That’s a kickass car guy! Rock on brother!!
Absolutely!
The most informative and unpretentious review I've watched. Good work, Jake.
This is a top 5 best review of a vehicle. This guy is so comfortable with a camera in his face. Doug Demuro and Tom Volk have compition if he has a channel.
Thank you!
Demuro is straight up obnoxious
I’ve always loved these trucks. By the time I could afford one there were other things I would prefer to own. Maybe I should pick one up to enjoy for a couple years just so I can experience one and live out that dream from 1991.
Best truck built with love greetings from the UK. I had S10 back in the Day. Souped up.
What is great about the Psyclone isnt just the power but the design. It is one of the most perfectly designed vehicles ever made. It never looks dated.
One thumbs down from the 45 year old guy in his moms basement with the testarossa poster still on his wall. Love these trucks. 👍🏼👍🏼
Amazing review!!! I've had several square body S-10's and one Sonoma. Always wanted a cyclone. Amazing but simplistic engineering. Great video!!
Yes, more ball chillers GM! Great review of a very cool truck Jake! Loved the owner's story too.
Always liked the square bodied S-10s and GMCs blazers
And the blocky body didn't seem to hurt its performance. It could catch a Ferrari 348...
Props for GM for building it.
And sadly, they refuse to make a modern version of it. That's why I gave up on GM. They now lack imagination and don't want to make fun cars. I abandoned them and bought a MINI instead.
@largol33t1 Well, GM didn't want anything competing with the Corvette, then they killed Pontiac, who worked with Buick and GMC to make the Syclone, so yeah.
Exceptional review on my favorite truck ever. Don’t care what truck does what, nothing recently compares to it. Viper truck Lightning Ecoboost Trackhawk. For 1990 technology AWD 4.3 turbo took the world by storm and with minor upgrades still hold its reign. The new ZO6 DOHC? GM resurrected the ZR1. Bring back the Syclone/Typhoon and bring back 90’s!
So this is the truck I have seen make rare appearances here in Wichita! Love the truck and awesome video. Thanks for bringing me back to my high school days when this beast came out!
Nice! Back in 1994/5 there was two brothers who each had one at Rock Falls Racetrack in Wisconsin. They are Twins. We were there running my friends Buick GrandNational we had just done a bunch of work on. The two brothers ran 13.83,s @ 103 mph all day, from 10am to 3pm!! Both trucks, 13.83 @ 103. Same times as Sid Breem with his 850 Norton Commando all day as well. We ran 11.20,s all day with the Grand National.
Really cool story 👍👍 Love stuff like this… thanks for sharing!
Yeah, 13.83@103 was pretty damn good in the 90s!
Great work!!!
Great take on a sweet truck
Love these trucks so much
Same here!
So ive been an s10 guy forever.
Ive always had a lowered s10 of some kind. Had several 2wd, several 4x4, ive had the xtreme, in a pick-up and blazer.....but never a syclone. this is on my list.
But id honestly go with a Typhoon clone because i need the leg room of the blazer.
AC seats were the answer to that little vent you mentioned lol, but yes all cars should have some form of it
*What's the fastest truck you've ever been in?*
This one lol
my 06 2500 h.d gas i have been 137 not turbo but its fast, this video was done really cool nice job
2000 f250 7.3L tuned lol
My TMNT truck!!!! Check my videos
My 1992 GMC Typhoon.
My brother bought his in 91 still has it. Looks better than new.
If you didn't know, s10s have G body front ends, everything but the sway bar. A arms, springs, shocks bushings. Gm parts ben
Every time ,i see videos of the syclone/ cyclone. I want one. I drive my old man's 1992 chevy s10 2.8 v6 5 speed regular cab.
They got rid of the metal tailgate stops because they rattle every time you hit a bump.
Great review! The black GMC letters were not an option, they were only on early 1992 Typhoons.. CD players were only an option on Typhoons.
Love these trucks. You kept calling it a car... Very fun trucks to drive if you brake boost them before you launch so there isn't lag. Prices have jumped through the roof now so I doubt I'll ever own one now. The Typhoons seem to be a bit better priced.
To make the Syclone go around corners all you need is a sway bar mounted on the back axle. it will go around corners like a go cart.
My buddy is a camaro guy and his 2010 SS does not corner as well as my Typhoon (lowered 2 inches and big sway bar in the back)
It already has one, factory installed.
s10's are solid... most of the usps mail trucks that are still on the road have the s10 underpinnings.
So American, I love it.
Picked a really nice Syclone to review! Watch Matt Marans Syclone video of my Syclone to watch a modified Syclone review!
Great review!!! 4LSlippy. Love that lol!
I saw the brand new Syclone at an annual dealer New Car show in Salt Lake City. The show always had new concepts which is what I thought the Syclone was with the name and look and thought it was just bodycladding. I assumed they were gauging public interest based on the look alone and most people just walked right by it. While my friend and I looked at and sat in it, the man watching over the truck didn't say a word about it to anyone. I liked the colors and badging but not the low look as I was more interested in 4WDs and thought the Syclone was only 2WD since it didn't have a transfer case shifter, was so low, and AWD was rare and basically unheard of back then. The part that frustrates me most was finding out about the truck 10yrs after it's release. A few years later than the Syclone GM sold the newer bodied S10 Extreme 2wd which I just thought was basically an updated version of the Syclone being about body cladding alone, and both being 2WD.
When I was in Foster care my foster parent had an s10 with the crappy sideways jump seats behind the driver and pass seats. They are decent trucks, except the 2.8 v6 was garbage. The truck lost speed going up hills floored. I don’t miss 80’s and 90’s gm consumer economy cars at all….
My friend and I delivered News papers in the McLaren prototype Cyclone. Pass Automotive had the truck. Chuck Mountain owned Pass Automotive. My friend spun it out on an entry ramp taking it back to Pass. Truck impounded and he was arrested for suspended license. Oh and 🔥'd!
😳!!
That truck in cherry red would be bad arse
They were all black
Wow! Super cool story! Enjoy your rare fast ass truck! Pass it down to your son or daughter. Please don’t ever sell it!
This truck was designed, built and manufacturered through PAS Inc. check up on them. They also built and engineered the typhoon and 1989 twin-turbo trans am
The Trans Am Turbo was single turbo. It was a slightly modified version of the Buick GNX engine.
@@rdsimmonds I'd have to read bit more I believe the pace car version of trans am was a twin turbo.
@@TheMusicKicks to the best of my knowledge, the pace car was a stock 1989 Trans Am Turbo. I know I've heard more than once that it was the first car to be used for the pace car that was completely stock.
@@TheMusicKicks my uncle owns a 89' turbo Trans-Am ..they are single turbo but run out very well!
Not built by PAS, just finished by PAS.
69k nice😏
How do you get that lucky 😂
I rode in 1992 over 2oo mph
well done!!!
I thought these were made 91'-93'?
The Syclone was '91 only (well, there were 3 '92 models). The Typhoons were '92 and '93 only.
So Donut media was wayyy off…
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Apparently holding down the brake pedal with the left foot while pushing the gas pedal with the right foot then releasing the brake and flooring it is “difficult”. There’s no reason to set the parking brake unless there’s issues with your brakes. Depending on the vehicle and it’s brake holding ability you can push the brake pedal as far as you can and hold it then put the transmission in neutral and rev the engine slightly to increase vacuum in the brake system which should allow the brake pedal to be depressed further and increase the clamping force of the calipers. Then while still holding the brake pedal down put the transmission into drive and raise the RPM’s up to maybe 3500 RPM’s depending on the vehicle to spool the turbo and create boost as well as preload the drivetrain and when you’re ready to go you simply let off the brakes and floor it. It’s a simple two foot process some call Brake Boosting or Boost Launch and shouldn’t include setting and releasing the parking brake at the right time. An old friend had a 93’ Typhoon and that’s how he launched it and he was always getting good hard launches.
@303StreetMachines ABS doesn’t activate or affect a vehicle when it’s already stopped and you’re not moving. If it did the ABS would always be pulsing and you wouldn’t be able to stay stopped at any time. We boost launched my friends Typhoon all the time and never needed the parking brake. Below is a an excerpt from the original Car & Driver magazine test for the Typhoon which mechanically is identical to the Syclone. Both are launched the same way for the quickest acceleration times.
“For maximum off-the-line ooomph, you'll want to run up the engine against the brake. Okay, shift into drive, hold the brake down with your left foot, and lower the throttle until the boost gauge swings as far as it will go. Ready for liftoff? Just lift your left foot off the brake and hold your right foot to the floor. Whhooooossh! No tire smoke. Barely a chirp from the rubber. And you are gone! The sprint from 0 to 60 mph takes-get this, SUV mavens-just 5.3 seconds.”
The owner of this Syclone says that his brakes are a little weak or something like that so I assume that’s why he used the parking brake but he may not know what he’s doing either. I’ve seen plenty of owners that didn’t know crap about their vehicles or how to drive them. Heck UA-cam is loaded with videos showing hundreds of owners like that. 😂
@303StreetMachines The Syclone and Typhoon along with the S-10 pickup, S-10 Blazer, Sonoma and Jimmy that had ABS all had issues with their ABS affecting braking distances and pedal feel due to the ABS system. But the ABS still doesn’t do anything when you’re stopped and Boost Launching a Syclone or Typhoon or any vehicle with ABS. Being a teenager in the early 1990’s I drove both the Syclone and Typhoon many times when they were new to the market as well as the S-10 and S-10 Blazer and Oldsmobile Bravada having owned all of them. They all use the same ABS systems. SyTy owners have been removing the ABS from their trucks for decades to have better brake control and firmer pedal feel when braking from speed not when they’re launching from a standstill. But disabling the ABS is more in depth than pulling the ABS fuse which I don’t remember the Syclone or Typhoon having because the wheel speed sensors are what control the ABS. Disabling the ABS in the Syclone and Typhoon requires removing the entire ABS valve body and redoing the brake line connections to the front and rear brakes. Regardless of all that your original comment that ABS makes brake boosting not so easy still makes no sense because like I said earlier the ABS only activates when the vehicle is at speed and the system senses the wheels locking up when braking and doesn’t do anything when you’re stopped and launching a vehicle from a standstill. I’m still going to assume that the owner just doesn’t really know what he’s doing and that’s why he’s setting the parking brake and then releasing it when launching.
@DOMMEX isn't the drive-train the same on the Syclone & Typhoon?
100% correct, countach interior is straight hot garbage!!
They didn't use the 3.8L grand national engine because they were being phased out as that was when buick was going to a FWD based vehicle.
Well, it's more to do with it would take too much modification to the S10 platform to work with the 3.8L. So it was easier to use the 4.3L that was already available in the S10s. The Buick 3.8L V6 was still in production into the late 90s (maybe later?) and was used extensively in Holdens in Australia.
@@jeffroberge When I attended a syclone typhoon meet several years ago we had a speaker attend whom was part of PAS, the company that completed the syclone conversion. He did talk about the 3.8l during its design which they did have a test mule with the 3.8l. Gm killed that option because that 3.8 was being phased out while the front wheel drive based 3.8 went into production. Nothing to do with fitment to the s10, there was a "Buick" s10 with the gm 3.8. A SBC fits into an s10 with not too much modifications. That 3.8 would have been a breeze.
@@Tribbatrot Interesting. That differs a bit from what I've found over the years. I've owned a Syclone for 18 years, so I'm not exactly unfamiliar with them. But I'd say after 30 years, some of the exact details have probably been muddied a bit. There's probably some truth to most of what both you and I have heard and read since the creation of these awesome machines.
@@Tribbatrot you right pretty much. I have Syclone and Jimmy S15 2wd V8 TPI. Motor mounts were easy to do. Wheel housing fit with no problem
@@jeffroberge it definitely was due to the engine being phased out. The Buick 3.8 V6 will physically fit with very little issue. But the 3800 series engines that replaced the 3.8 and were available at time these were built were for fwd applications only.
just bought one, have been dailying it for the past week. no one knows what the fuck it is, and when i get next to those cocky bmw drivers i send them to gapplebees for a 5 course meal
S10= Chevy S15 GMC
Correct. Also 1991 = long time ago :)
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Its not 4 wheel drive!! Its called all wheel drive. Wtf. A 4 wheel drive has a transfer case. If you are going to make videos atleast know what your talking about.
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