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Originally Posted by tbomachines
Correct, the celebrity is the same chassis as your car. The later century had the 3.8 I believe but your generation would have the 60 degree as it is their fwd platform. My celebrity had the 2.8
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The Century came with both the 3800 and 3300 in the 1982-1993 time period. I'll scan stuff for you later today.
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Originally Posted by DieselPaul
Your car is supposedly the later version being a 1994
General Motors 60° V6 engine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They made 3.1 with the gen1 with iron heads, then they made gen2 a 3.1 with aluminum heads, then they made the gen3 which they called the 3100 most of the time and it also has aluminum heads. If your car is a Gen3 3100 that's a pretty good 60* with heads that flow decent. A 3400 bottom end swap is a straight swap as far as I know. The 3500 can be done with some modifications, as can the 3900.
I was(am) big into pontiac fieros so guys swap anything with a FWD bellhousing pattern.
I have an 87 with an OBD2 3800 Supercharged Series 2 swapped into it.
An OBD2 Series 2 or 3 3800 supercharged or 3800NA will probably get considerably better fuel economy than your 3.1 and have 2x the HP. I was being facetious though, I didn't really think you were doing a swap, but you did talk about manual swapping it.
Which would be possible with some J-body, fiero, and or early W-body parts. |
Really? Better fuel economy? I'll have to tuck that into the back of my head...
I want to swap at least one of my cars over to a manual. The attraction on the 300SD is that it is not original -- engine, transmission, and front seats from a different car -- whereas the Buick looks like it rolled off the showroom floor yesterday. However, it looks like I could get parts for swapping the Buick much more easily than those for swapping the 'Benz, and swapping the Buick would be something new, unlike swapping the 300SD, which has been done before. Do you have any thoughts on whether I'd run into any issues with the halfshafts during the swap? How about the flywheel? I've done plenty of reading on OM617 swaps, so that's where those questions come from... any thoughts on other potential issues?
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