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Performance parts source for 3800 ?


padgett

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thrasher.com.pdta.com, are a few, just about all the parts for the pontiac 3800 will work. i have added a kn cold air intake high po pcm smaller sc pully and exaust. can you say rice burner killer!!

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Well not quite. There are some minor difference between the "C" (88-90 Reatta) and the "L" (91-) series I engine and port spacing differences between the series I and series II

To use most of the later stuff you need at least the series II heads which have significant differences from S I (see here - sounds like you really need a complete engine.

Have never really looked into it beyond there is a passage from head to intake manifold that is different between the "C" and "L" engine.

The easiest way is to bolt an entire "L" into an earlier car (what Greg did & why the s/c was a bolt in) but do not know what mods are required to "mix and match". Suspect the "L" head might be a bolt-on to a "C" but do not know.

For that matter, you should be able to bolt a complete S-II engine into

a Reatta without much difficulty, but the electronics will undoubtedly need some mods - if going that far, a 4T65E "HD" trans would also be a good idea.

Really wish I could play with this stuff but inderstand why Thrasher etc have gone to the SII stuff, that is where the money is.

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