Thread: The durability of the 3.8

YouTube - buick crushed twice by 20 ton dozer, still drives

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YouTube - motor blow and fire, buick 3.8

yep... the 3800 will last forever if you take care of them well. they are good motors

Lol, ftw

Originally Posted by 2000GTP

yep... the 3800 will last forever if you take care of them well. they are good motors

+1...

Ha! That's awesome. Wish I could have been there. That looks like fun

Originally Posted by GrandPrixGT00

to bad the trannys only last like 70000 miles

I don't know what you're doing wrong then. I got over 150,000 miles out of my stock tranny in my car and it was raced quite a bit back in the day. Sad part is the tranny is in my shed and still works. I replaced it for a stronger, geared/stalled race tranny.

Oh and my other GTP has 146,000 miles on its original tranny.

Goes to show you, a little maintence goes a long ways......

3800 FTW, that car went through some hell, I must say, i'm impressed...

Dave is a joke, that's all I am going to say.

Dave is awesome. I always watch his vids when I want a good laugh. It looks as if the fire started near the back manifold area... maybe a leaking VC gasket???

Originally Posted by GrandPrixGT00

to bad the trannys only last like 70000 miles

+1 personal experience with that and had one go after like 17k miles...something like that

Originally Posted by GrandPrixGT00

to bad the trannys only last like 70000 miles

I'm @ alil over 70 on my La Crosse & my wife 2000 Lasabre is push 215, 000...

Originally Posted by SuperSport

Dave is awesome. I always watch his vids when I want a good laugh. It looks as if the fire started near the back manifold area... maybe a leaking VC gasket???

No no he is not lol

i remember catching those videos somewhere before. i always get a good laugh out of his vids