2.8,3.1,or 3.4 V6

[1988GTU]

Where are you at? I'm about 35 miles NW of Des Moines, Iowa. I can come to either Iowa boarder to get it, but you'd have to meet me there.

Michigan, 39 minutes north of Detroit.

[pocket-rocket]

hey thats the same motor my neon had!! god i hated that car. it was cool in the winter though, except that it never had power steering.

Except the Neons have a reverse flow version. The intake is on the front and the exhaust is on the rear, vs exhaust on the front and intake on the rear for DSMs. I've no idea why they did that either...

[Superdave]

you could get another 3.1/2.8 for dirt cheap at the junk yard locally. i gave mine to a guy for free a few years ago.. and it only had 30-40K on it.. lol

[2.8 Grand Prix]

Where are you at? I'm about 35 miles NW of Des Moines, Iowa. I can come to either Iowa boarder to get it, but you'd have to meet me there.

[1988GTU]

For 200 you could have one of my 3.1's.... but you'd have to come get it or arrange for shipping.

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

hey thats the same motor my neon had!! god i hated that car. it was cool in the winter though, except that it never had power steering.

[pocket-rocket]

A Chrysler engine used in the DSMs and Chrysler cars. It's a 2.0l DOHC 16 valve engine. I don't remember what year Mitsubishi started using them in the DSMs, but they were the ones you got if you didn't get a turbo car (that had the 4g63 engine).

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

laugh if you will, but aside from a cool number, lol, whats a 4 20,eh?

[pocket-rocket]

It was test and tune night. His car was stock besides aesthetic mods and it was an auto. At least it was a 420a

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

that was one helluva mustang! but what the hell was with the guy in the avenger?? did he win anything that day? lol

[pocket-rocket]

Mine's 7,150 and I shift around 7k It sounds nice at those RPMs too (sorta, but I have a fixer for that- a 96 intake that will move my powerband up 1k rpms, then I will change my cam timing to bring it back down where my peak is right at my shift point so my powerband is more broad). Took my friend for a ride once, had a rolling start around 10mph, put the hammer down, front end got squirrely, nailed 2nd at 7k rpms, front end got sqirrely again, nailed 3rd for a bit and let off. He grabbed the A pillar and exclaimed "It's too fierce, I don't like it!" He was used to his Festiva, rofl! This was with the original intake setup and 13* cam timing.

Here is our 2005 meet, and my car was the first up- with Josh narrating and Ben as the heckler. Just sucks my cat was plugged then (that's fixed now )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvOYVLMKbs0

BTW, I hate how cars look so slow on video...

[robertisaar]

post your BCC and i'll tell you... shift points as well...

[SofaKingWeToddDid]

what should the redline on my engine be? the tach marks 7k i think, but it shifts at 6,500, maybe 6.

[2.8 Grand Prix]

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind. Actually, I have found a Buick 3800 that I am thinking about putting in. After all, the '88-96 Buick Regals had 3800s and they were w-bodys just like the Grand Prix. Thanks for the Ideas, I'll keep ya posted on my progress.

[pocket-rocket]

Well, I went through 2 before swapping in the 5 speed. And the first one I pulled out (@99k miles) did have a "Re-manufactured by Hydro-matic" sticker on it, so that one wasn't original either. At least I did get 30k miles out of the $300 junkyard unit I bought. Although at the end half the time it would go into lockup, half the time it wouldn't. And half of the time it did go into lockup it would slip so I would let off to disengage lockup to avoid burning up my torque converter. The first one went out while going to Chicago for the car show. It was fine all the way out there, then as we pulled into town it started slipping really bad until finally a mile later it wouldn't move until it cooled down, which worked out so we didn't have to push it onto the trailer. It's not the transmissions fault. The 4t60-e lives fine behind most other engines, just not the DOHC because of the rev range of the engine exceeding the redline of the transmission.