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yeah, i was just playing.
i actually was considering swapping that motor into my 3.1 z24 for a while. hehe the good old days of when i didn't know better
Love the 3800. Best V6 GM ever put out imo. Always wanted to put a gtp motor in a fiero.
3800 is a pain in the ass to work on!
it has better power than i thought and keeps on pulling pretty good.
the bad thing is if you beat on it expect a bit of rod knock.
i've wrenched on 3800s. 3400s, and ANYTHING other than doing the basic oil change is a pain. even swapping out the air filter is retarded. book time for a tech on a timing chain is 9 hours. to replace passenger side motor mount is almost impossible. and the biggest problem with these engines is that they leak every fluid possible. the transmission will only last 50 to 60k miles, if you're lucky ( being heavy footed makes it worse) suspension issues will arrise after 20 to 30k miles.... i can go on. my 94 civic 4 door sedan has 120k and is on it's original suspension... although i should probably check out that rattle.... oh well. american cars suck, a 2009 unibody construction fwd gm vehicle still bears the same resemblance to a car from 1989 with the sheetmetal stripped away.... the 3800 series engineis still mechanically identical from 1986 to 2009..... enough said. they sucked then, they suck now. the only good thing about these cars is that when they do break down with all of their pain in the assness, i can charge more to repair them.... because they are a pain in the ass. and they WILL break down. don't feel so bad about them anymore...
my problem with gm's is not the motors. i think the motors are pretty good.
its just the rest of the car around it sucks.
too many stupid things break.... windows off track, plastics crack from the sun, wipers, etc etc
my problem with gm's is not the motors. i think the motors are pretty good.
its just the rest of the car around it sucks.
too many stupid things break.... windows off track, plastics crack from the sun, wipers, etc etc
haha yep!! 4 door delta 88..drivers window ALWAYS fell off track, dash was sooper warped from the sun and only 2 of the 4 doors opened.. was down to 1 when it blew up..did mad burnouts tho!