Ideas for swaps other than a V8.

Nutsid · 04-22-2008, 03:39 PM

A friend of mine had a 3800 supercharged Regal. He was pretty into the car, so we spent a weekend at a track with nothing but these cars. 15 Supercharged 3800's. Out of those 15, 11 of them blew up. All that was done was a pulley upgrade and fender well intakes on every one of them, with a tune. I'd think about what happens when the engine gets modified before sticking it into a car.

TheDriver216 · 04-22-2008, 03:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Nutsid

A friend of mine had a 3800 supercharged Regal. He was pretty into the car, so we spent a weekend at a track with nothing but these cars. 15 Supercharged 3800's. Out of those 15, 11 of them blew up. All that was done was a pulley upgrade and fender well intakes on every one of them, with a tune. I'd think about what happens when the engine gets modified before sticking it into a car.

Wow thats nuts.. ive seen quit a few run some insane Hp and run daily driven for years... bad tunes? stupid drivers? Intense racing and ZZ Performance have done some crazy stuff with their and customers cars that run for a long time. Thats just weird that so many popped at the track

Nutsid · 04-22-2008, 04:03 PM

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Wow thats nuts.. ive seen quit a few run some insane Hp and run daily driven for years... bad tunes? stupid drivers? Intense racing and ZZ Performance have done some crazy stuff with their and customers cars that run for a long time. Thats just weird that so many popped at the track

Intense is actually one of the companies that were at the track and blew up. ZZ Performance sounds familiar as well. All I know for certain is that turned a lot of the guys at the track that weekend against Intense. A lot of them.

I just remembered. The weekend was Intense Drag Days a couple years back. Perhaps they've sorted their shit out since then, but that one weekend I saw more piston engines blow up than I've ever saw rotaries blow up in person, and that is exactly why I'm so against 3800's.

This same friend also went through three 3800 Supercharged engines and four transmissions in his Regal. His car was tuned by a guy who used to run Regals as well, but found them to be so problematic that he switched to a Cobalt SS. He now runs 12's in his Cobalt SS, Rob I believe to be his name (not sure what his last name is).

TheDriver216 · 04-22-2008, 04:10 PM

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Intense is actually one of the companies that were at the track and blew up. ZZ Performance sounds familiar as well. All I know for certain is that turned a lot of the guys at the track that weekend against Intense. A lot of them.

I just remembered. The weekend was Intense Drag Days a couple years back. Perhaps they've sorted their shit out since then, but that one weekend I saw more piston engines blow up than I've ever saw rotaries blow up in person, and that is exactly why I'm so against 3800's.

This same friend also went through three 3800 Supercharged engines and four transmissions in his Regal. His car was tuned by a guy who used to run Regals as well, but found them to be so problematic that he switched to a Cobalt SS. He now runs 12's in his Cobalt SS, Rob I believe to be his name (not sure what his last name is).

Nice! was it an IDD at Norwalk? and the FWD tannys for those cars were junk to begin with IMO... but ive never heard to many stories of 3800 popping like that.. hmm food for thought

$100T2 · 05-03-2008, 05:00 PM

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Originally Posted by Nutsid

A friend of mine had a 3800 supercharged Regal. He was pretty into the car, so we spent a weekend at a track with nothing but these cars. 15 Supercharged 3800's. Out of those 15, 11 of them blew up. All that was done was a pulley upgrade and fender well intakes on every one of them, with a tune. I'd think about what happens when the engine gets modified before sticking it into a car.

I have a GTP with the L67 supercharged motor. Great car, super fast for a 4 door. I haven't modded it though, thinking about trading it for an RX-8.

Nutsid · 05-07-2008, 01:25 AM

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I have a GTP with the L67 supercharged motor. Great car, super fast for a 4 door. I haven't modded it though, thinking about trading it for an RX-8.

I absolutely love my Rx8. Great car, and tons of fun. My only real complaint is the obvious bad gas mileage. I actually had to spend about eleven hours in it yesterday, and the comfort was good the entire time. It isn't the quickest car in the world, either, but it has enough speed to be fun for sure.