I understand a person with limited knowledge asking this question. The answer really is that theres a billion differences between each of the motors you listed. As you can see by the responses, even the name is different. GM calls the 3.8L a 3800 and all others will call it a 3.8L or a duratech, blah blah blah.
Some have pushrods to open the valves, others have overhead cams that ride the valves. Some have long strokes, others short... tons and tons of differences.
To me it's kinda cool that you looked around and thought, "hey...3.8's are in other stuff are they similar?" They are really only similar in the facts that they are engines and have a one gallon displacement. Since it's a 3.8L ..... take a good look at the urinal the next time you are pissing somewhere and know that the amount of displacement in your engine is the same amount of water per flush in that urinal.
Originally Posted by BillBoost37
