MaGicMAN

I had the 3800 in one my camaros and it was no snail with a few mods, of course i had the three pedals so that helped. And my buddy has a buick ultra with the super charger on it and its quite the sleeper.

taythegibs

looking into it more (if i remember correctly) i have the L36 block and the easily modded ones like in the camaro have the L37 block. i still can outrun a modded o5 neon

MaGicMAN

oh yeah man there great motors. I always take crap from people about it being a v6, i had the Y87 package on it and it would easily kill 5.0 foxbodies, granted they werent blown or anything. The 3.8 they throw in the stangs arent even worth wasting gas on in that thing, it was fun i loved it.

00jeepXJ

Just a thought... but the intake manifolds are the same size but different shapes for the Naturally breathing 3.8 for the year as with the Supercharged for that year. Swapped out my N/A intake for a year newer Supercharged intake from a park and it worked pretty well. That was OBD1 though. Just a thought.

taythegibs

that would be fun but im having some tranny slippage issues (only a couple of weeks after i blew the one in our 74 k5) and a few other things i need to fix.

UserID6095

Have a '93 Buick Park Ave with 78k miles. Car rides like a dream, just floats along the road. I have heard of these engines hitting 300k miles no problem.

Willys55

Anyone say "demolition derby ?!"

taythegibs

it's worth a wee bit too much for that.

taythegibs

its over. the ug-chick is gone. i gave it to my dad and im driving his truck (00 mazda pickup+ payments) to orlando when i move tomorrow.

DCM

Good luck on the disney program, my sister has a week and a half left and she loved it

taythegibs

What was her role?

DCM

Quick food in the magic kingdom, mainly toontown i think

taythegibs

that doesn't sound too fun. i just checked in and i got Custodial in Future World in EPCOT!

floydwall888

Nice cars, and as mentioned several times the 3.8 is one of the best things to ever come from GM.

I vaguely recall participating in some "top fuel" burnouts with the old mans Bonnie SSEI. Hit that TCS off and she'd burn 'em to wheels.

firstime00XJ

The only bad thing about that is the guys that swap superchargers into a N/A motor take the risk of scattering parts on the ground if they mod the motor too much. I've seen it once where a guy supercharged the motor and didn't lower compression - scattered the motor. He had other issues too though. The compression ratio of a S/C 3800 I believe is 8.5:1 and I believe the compression ratio of a N/A 3800 is 9.5:1 or even 10:1 in newer models. I had a '99 Monte Carlo Z34 with the N/A 3800 and put a K&N CAI, heads, pistons, rockers, lifters, and a shift kit. I was saving up for a cam but had to sell the car before I could get it. Oh well, I LOVE my XJ now. Too bad you couldn't keep the 98...those were nice cars.