"First 3800 Startup!" Re: The 3100's Last Idle

The 3800's first REAL start up!

The swap is done!!!!! I only had one minor issue, and that was a cracked transaxle side cover (The donor car was in a rollover) due to whacking the engine cradle really good!

I made a cheesy slide show because my camera effed, but the sound is great quality! If you want a copy of the sound or slideshow, PM me here and I will give you my email address, that way you can email me, so I can reply with the file, just make the subject "3800 Audio" "3800 Video"

Thanks and enjoy!!!

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• 1999
• Chevrolet
• Lumina
• Chevy
• 3800
• L67
• Swap
• Supercharged
• V6
• BadBadRubberPiggy
• First
• Start
• Up
• Exhaust
• Loud
• Headers
• Open

[ERIC933G]

the m90 that got showed in this video is off of a 3800 thunderbird supercoupe

[ponchochan]

@ERIC933G - Yup. It's an Eaton unit used on many many vehicles.

[ERIC933G]

@ponchochan yup but a different style it wouldn't work on a gtp engine.

[ponchochan]

@ERIC933G - The chassis of the m90 is unchanged, just the throttle body mounted to it.

[anewzack78]

u cant just throw on a SC on a n/a 3800. The heads are different.

[ponchochan]

@anewzack78 - Well, you can, its called a Top Swap, but it is a higher compression head, and because of that more supporting mods are needed over a standard L67 swap. Otherwise you run in to KR and pinging... But the stock pulley gives you more power in an L36 than an L67 because the compression is higher and therefore the same amount of boost on a higher compression motor yields more power, but at the cost of some reliability.

[form109]

that Engine sounds like a Beast!

[SpeedyTimm]

I need more power for my 96 grand prix se... I see alot of people do the swap but not with the 96 us there a reason for this? Could I do the swap? I found a nice used L67 motor with only 16,000 miles on it for a very good price please help I want to go fast agian. Thanks for your time.

[MonteLSV6]

There's alot that you have to do. You can do it, it'll take a couple days since your a novice as so am i, but it'll be awhile. PM me for a site for 3800 NA upgrades.

Also, join the Montecarloforums (search on google) We help anyone that has problems, questions, concerns and anything about a monte carlo. My name on there is the same as my name for YouTube.

[ponchochan]

That is probably the best option. You need to beef up your 4t65e or swap it for a 4t65e-hd and beef up your lower end if you plan on modifying it substantially.