V6 P6?

unstable load said:
A friend used to drag race back in the 80s and they used to boost the stock V6 engines with virtual impunity and then try to break them.

He got into the P6 scene a bit later and he showed me that the 3.8 V6 is virtually the same engine as the V8 with 2 pots off the end, to the extent that the heads will fit and bolt holes line up perfectly with the exception of the extra/missing cylinder, depending if it was a 6 pot head on an 8 pot block or vice versa.
He even went as far as to machine an 8 cylinder interruptor for the V6 distributor and ran it in his P6 V8, it's still there, to this day and he raced it in our local Classics scene. He said it gave a massively better spark than the stock Lucas distributor did.
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Makes sense, later model Buicks had coil packs and direct ignition.
 
My ride, as a company car in the late '80s; a Chevrolet Kommando, South African assembled and very "Vauxhall" with a 3800 V-6 and Auto

I don't know how this came to be in New Zealand, it was the only example I ever saw. Parts were no bother except on one occasion the starter pinion exploded into dozens of bits and nothing off-the-shelf fitted, I reassembled the pinion out of the shrapnel, took this to a mechanic friend who was a GM buff and he pored over the interchange manuals until he discovered a GM marine pinion that was identical

Wikipedia suggests over 25 million of the V-6's were made, making these one of the most produced engines ever

Kommando? A nice, comfortable powerful car that could have done with slightly better brakes, they assembled P6B's in South Africa as well

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TokyoP6B said:
My ride, as a company car in the late '80s; a Chevrolet Kommando, South African assembled and very "Vauxhall" with a 3800 V-6 and Auto

I don't know how this came to be in New Zealand, it was the only example I ever saw. Parts were no bother except on one occasion the starter pinion exploded into dozens of bits and nothing off-the-shelf fitted, I reassembled the pinion out of the shrapnel, took this to a mechanic friend who was a GM buff and he pored over the interchange manuals until he discovered a GM marine pinion that was identical

Wikipedia suggests over 25 million of the V-6's were made, making these one of the most produced engines ever

Kommando? A nice, comfortable powerful car that could have done with slightly better brakes, they assembled P6B's in South Africa as well

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Later, we had the Opel Senator with the V6 3.8 lump. A very nice car overall and a brilliant towing vehicle.
My mate used to tow the drag car around with it and said it was a pleasure to tow with.
 
Interesting topic
Has anyone on this forum done a V6 conversion?
I‘m really intrigued with the possibility of more power and a nice 5 speed gearbox
Being in Canada there is no shortage of donor cars
Cheers,John
 
Rovohn said:
Interesting topic
Has anyone on this forum done a V6 conversion?
I‘m really intrigued with the possibility of more power and a nice 5 speed gearbox
Being in Canada there is no shortage of donor cars
Cheers,John
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At the time when I owned my Mitsi GTO Twin Turbo I had thought that it would make an excellent conversion but cramming all the other goodies in would be near to impossible, 4WD limited slip, 4WS, active suspension and 5 or 6 speed manual.


Graeme
 
My daily driver is a V6, and a bit of a beast too. I wonder if I could fit that into a P6?

Spec - 320bhp, 650NM Torque (480 lb/ft). That should make Sparky pick up his feet a bit :)

Where's my tape measure?
 
quattro said:
My daily driver is a V6, and a bit of a beast too. I wonder if I could fit that into a P6?

Spec - 320bhp, 650NM Torque (480 lb/ft). That should make Sparky pick up his feet a bit :)

Where's my tape measure?
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I think if I was going to carry out an engine transplant of a different breed now I would be fitting a nice big electric motor. Ten years from now I can see electric classics being quite common, twenty years from now they will have become the only way to run an old vehicle....... maybe ?
 
There's a telly programme about a mob in Wales converting classics to electric. Very interesting, especially the one with the Tesla motor transplant - that was quicker than my pet racing snail :oops:
 
ghce said:
At the time when I owned my Mitsi GTO Twin Turbo I had thought that it would make an excellent conversion but cramming all the other goodies in would be near to impossible, 4WD limited slip, 4WS, active suspension and 5 or 6 speed manual.


Graeme
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I had wondered if a 4x4 conversion would be possible with a Synchro/Quattro/Subaru setup, or even a transfer case like the Jensen FF uses and a regular diff.
It would take some serious massaging and fettling up front, that's for sure.
 
unstable load said:
I had wondered if a 4x4 conversion would be possible with a Synchro/Quattro/Subaru setup, or even a transfer case like the Jensen FF uses and a regular diff.
It would take some serious massaging and fettling up front, that's for sure.
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It sure would and could you call it a P6 once you had completed it? the closest equivalent I can think of would be something like a modified sports man class car, retaining all the donor car running gear and popping the P6 body work on top.


Graeme
 
The Rovering Member said:
A bit like the Lexus V8 with the P6 body lowered over the top of it.
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I was trying to recall that but could not get there. This has to be the way to go rather than trying to add new running gear to a P6, add the P6 panels to a modern platform.
So the hunt is on for a smallish donor with all the goodies.........
 
cobraboy said:
I was trying to recall that but could not get there. This has to be the way to go rather than trying to add new running gear to a P6, add the P6 panels to a modern platform.
So the hunt is on for a smallish donor with all the goodies.........
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Tesla Model S.......


Graeme
 
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