A friend of mine has a magnaflow on his 4.8L 1500, IMO it is not loud enough, it has a little grumble to it but barely any louder than stock

Its a flat tappet motor, I would have liked a roller setup but wasn't ready to spend that kind of money

Pulled the trigger on a 260HP/350TQ crate motor today. It is not a powerhouse, but its all new and will provide me with some good bones to build upon. Also ordered thinner head gaskets and a more aggressive cam to put in, this combo should net me about 325HP.

Can't wait to get this together (and ...

Comparing to modern V6 has nothing to do with a 3800, DOHC, direct injection, variable valves, etc....

Building an F body with a 3800 will be a continual life of wishing you built an LSx car... By the time you add and tune a decent turbo setup you'll be into LS1 price ranges, where you could have ...

Unfortunately it looks like all board attachments on BPro were lost during host migration as we were unable to get a perfect backup.

I do not think these files are any longer available. I will look into it for you

in the meantime, you can try to PM BillBoost37, no telling if he will see it though

I bought my brake light overlay on ebay (8 years ago)... I spent 2 minutes looking now and didn't find them

LaserSVT wrote:

Jfridge92 wrote:z34's were fun cars! You're always welcome here no matter what you drive...unless it's a ford

Am I gonna be shunned because this is my current build shop toy? :p

OMG, I looooove a well done MK7/8

The oven is not necessary, but it does make things easier. If you let them warm up to room temp you can manage to finagle them apart. I have done over a dozen sets and only ever baked 1 or 2...

If I was still living in Norwood I would insist on meeting up to do these. I used to be the go-to guy for ...

Cars & Coffee in MN in April?!?! Dont you still have 2" of salt on the roads and 2' of snow on the ground?

Howdy

I really dig it, but I am biased towards old-school buicks

I'm still -kinda- around...

I think I saw your car a couple months back on 495N in Franklin

3: yes. it would be horrible. When I had my SE I took the resonator out, swapped in a high flow cat, and kept the stock muffler and it barely sounded better than trash. 3800s NEED a resonator to sound reasonable at all

Welcome fellow Masshole

Welsome!

What I would do:
Swap to Dorman upper intake
Replace lower intake gaskets
Swap to metal coolant elbows

there is basically zero chance you need to do the head gaskets

BonnieBoy08 wrote:If the defrost is on I think they will run regardless as that somehow makes use of the A/C compressor even though its blowing warm air. Try turning all interior climate control functions off and check if they are still running.

Yes, defrost runs the AC to dehumidify

Looks nice. A freind of mine has a mint 89 Turbo S.. Quite a bit different than the base model but I love it

Really anything is going to scratch the *shoot* out of the clear... god knows if it is snowing out you have sand on your car.. pushing the snow off is just going to drag sand and ice all over it