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want more horse what motor should i use
Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:01 PM
If anyone can help i am trying to get more horsepower for my car. I dont know what motor to swap for my 95' 2.2 5 speed cavalier. Dont know exactly what i would need as far as computer, wiring harness, engine mounts, and exaust, and anything else that might have changed from the 2.2.

Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:09 PM
you can swap a 2.4, a Eco, or the 3800 Supercharg motor. just got to do some reasearch on the subject



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Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:11 PM
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Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Monday, March 28, 2005 8:34 AM
lol that would be sweet
but wich one will be the best swap
Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Monday, March 28, 2005 9:12 AM
which one can you afford?



Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Monday, March 28, 2005 9:46 AM
well, the 3800 s/c is pretty much as good as it gets when it comes to h.p. You can probably find a Buick regal in a junk yard almost anywhere, its just a matter of getting the PCM work done, the wiring, clutch, flywheel, tranny, custom subframe and much more work done.


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Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Monday, March 28, 2005 1:59 PM
you have a 95, so you have OBD1... find a quad 4 HO; boost it if that isn't enough.

other than that, 3.4/3400 is a popular choice; 3800 is slightly more complicated(but certainly not impossible).




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Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:25 AM
what would i need to get drunk do you have a boat

other than the motor what would i need to swap the 2.2 for the h.o. quad 4
Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Tuesday, March 29, 2005 7:14 PM
How much would the 3800 swap cost , with everything already up and running
Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:12 AM
all this talk about the 3.8L supercharger swaping.... made me think.. if only some one would be willing to swap in a 3.8L Turbo Buick engine.. dont know if there would be any way to make it for a front wheel drive but you never know...



Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 2:49 AM
http://www.j-body.org/forums/read.php?f=2&i=294513&t=294513
Read this post. These guys have given me alot of good ideas.

Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 3:05 AM
Freebs wrote:all this talk about the 3.8L supercharger swaping.... made me think.. if only some one would be willing to swap in a 3.8L Turbo Buick engine.. dont know if there would be any way to make it for a front wheel drive but you never know...


Why use that engine when the series 2 3800 is the third evolution to the old GN engines? The series 2 3800 does a great job and is already setup for FWD. You can then turbo it from there.



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Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:36 AM
^^ better yet the new series 3



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Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 8:43 AM
ide go 2.4.....





















































w/ twin turbo's hehe... maybe not twins though lil smaller and lil bigger one...



Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Wednesday, March 30, 2005 10:00 AM
Pushrods & Nitrous! wrote:^^ better yet the new series 3


Yeah you could use the series 3 but then you have to wire the car for electronic throtle, not sure how much of a pain in the ass that would be.



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Raven Autosports
55 McQuade Lake Cres,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(902) 850-3330
10.82@132
Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:06 AM
why swap?

build up the OHV you quitter =P

if adler can do it you can






Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Thursday, March 31, 2005 1:10 AM
raven - yea i know the 3800 is already FWD set up and what not... but it would be sweet just to see a 3.8L turbo buick engine sitting in the engine bay of a jbody... like picture this sitting in your engine bay... after a load of modifications that is.





Re: want more horse what motor should i use
Thursday, March 31, 2005 8:28 AM
It would look pretty cool to see that engine sitting in the engine bay thats for sure. I haven't seen one up close so I'm not sure if a FWD tranny would even bolt up to it (highly doubt it would as it probably has the same bolt pattern as the 350's). Now if I was going to convert it over to RWD then either an LS1 or LS2 would be in there.



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raven@accesswave.ca
Raven Autosports
55 McQuade Lake Cres,
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
(902) 850-3330
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