92bird
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Wow, why would I do that?
This is just a fun experiment using what i have laying around the garage.. My '94 SC has some rod knock, and money is tight so I'm trying something fun in the meantime. This bastard child 3.8L will be between the shock towers of my stock '94 daily driver SC for hopefully less than a year, while I take my sweet time doing something yet to be determined with the '94 block that I take out.
I am taking the engine from a '96 Thunderbird LX 3.8L that i had as a parts car (blown head gasket) and stuffing it in the SC.
I intended to use the whole 96 motor but valves and valve seats were rusted pretty bad from sitting with water/coolant and i didn't want to put money into a valve job just yet. But i'll hang on to these 96 heads for future endeavors..
I have a spare set of heads from a 1995 Taurus police package car, which have a D-shaped combustion chamber. This should lower the compression of the N/A motor by a bit, and give it a chance to survive in the SC until i can do something sweet with the '94 SC block.
Now these heads do not have the deck integrity of the SC or 96-98 3.8 heads, but they should be fine for a stockish application. Might be worth a few hp too because the valves are not shrouded as much.
I've attached a pic of the head differences.. 95 police package heads on top, and 95 N/A 3.8L heads on the bottom. You can see the chamber differences.
Any thoughts what this might run like? The stock '96 cam isn't horrible, specs are better than the '94 SC cam. Who knows what compression will end up being.
Hope to have this running in the next few weeks.
Jeramie
This is just a fun experiment using what i have laying around the garage.. My '94 SC has some rod knock, and money is tight so I'm trying something fun in the meantime. This bastard child 3.8L will be between the shock towers of my stock '94 daily driver SC for hopefully less than a year, while I take my sweet time doing something yet to be determined with the '94 block that I take out.
I am taking the engine from a '96 Thunderbird LX 3.8L that i had as a parts car (blown head gasket) and stuffing it in the SC.
I intended to use the whole 96 motor but valves and valve seats were rusted pretty bad from sitting with water/coolant and i didn't want to put money into a valve job just yet. But i'll hang on to these 96 heads for future endeavors..
I have a spare set of heads from a 1995 Taurus police package car, which have a D-shaped combustion chamber. This should lower the compression of the N/A motor by a bit, and give it a chance to survive in the SC until i can do something sweet with the '94 SC block.
Now these heads do not have the deck integrity of the SC or 96-98 3.8 heads, but they should be fine for a stockish application. Might be worth a few hp too because the valves are not shrouded as much.
I've attached a pic of the head differences.. 95 police package heads on top, and 95 N/A 3.8L heads on the bottom. You can see the chamber differences.
Any thoughts what this might run like? The stock '96 cam isn't horrible, specs are better than the '94 SC cam. Who knows what compression will end up being.
Hope to have this running in the next few weeks.
Jeramie
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