carburrettored V6

[potshots007]

hey everyone, just wondering if anyone has done this to their vn, would doubt if anyone has done it, but just wondering if anyone knows where abouts you can buy a manifold for my V6 for carby, or if anyone knows who makes them, harrop? edlebrock?

cheers, nick

[Boonz]

buick made a carby version of the 3800 motor a while back, try googling it and see what comes up... ive got a buick 3 litre in my boat and that engine is only 7 years old now

[potshots007]

ok cool , might do that

[potshots007]

just not sure how it would work on the fuel injected V6, like the manifolds i found dont have a bit for the thermostat housing, so im a little confused, but will keep looking i guess and work something out,
ok now im confused of how my spark will work without injectors, and stuff, are well, things like that i can think about later and work out, main bit is finding a manifold or making one, little hard for me i think,


cheers, nick

[vn_lexcen_s2]

never knew there was a 3.8 carby. why would u want to go from fuel injected to carby??

[potshots007]

was waiting for someone to ask that, no real reason other than i prefer carburettor, i do like fuel injection, but just carby is more fun, apprently early buicks came out with a carby version, its just so hard to find a manifold for it, although if i want i can probably get one sent over from america but the cost is just too much for me, so im just searching around here for now

cheers, nick

[s0sage]

take all those parts i gave and you hit yourself over the head with each of them. goose

lol

carby .. honestly ... lol! btw you left the other vp headlight at my joint mate, think i was a bit too hungover to notice ..

[potshots007]

oh ok, are well one better than none, lol you crack me up s0s, too hungover, lol you didnt look to crash hot, did you notice my car bit louder, lol, still not finished, but yeah still going to try and go carby v6, its a series II motor that im rebuilding and im just getting some info now, but really want to make it carbied,
so your car painted yet, or still getting it prepared?

[s0sage]

oh im gettin sick of the boys at work ... lol
now we're too busy this saturday to paint the outside of my car ... so im still drivin it around with purple door jambs and engine bay

hahhaa it really does look like an abo's humpy covered in primer half stripped.
fingers crossed it the work lightens up and i get to sneak my car into the
oven one night during the week... cant wait for a the purple mx6!!

as for your carby v6 ... ill ask the engineers next door what they reckon of the whole thing. they made a copy of a walker dual plane for a 307

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Edelb...QQcmdZViewItem

1 x carby dual plane manifold to suit buick 3.8L engine.

might not be good for OUR V6's .. theres a part number there. .. give edelbrock a ring and tell them you want THAT spec product to fit your engine.. they'll have the pat number there... or even some kind of adaptor plate? its the same block after all ..

anyways .. hope it helps in some way .. if only more information for your research

[PaRaDoX]

i imagine it would be alot of work, considering how many sensors the engine has

[VNV6VENGEANCE]

why carby an injected six? The efficiency of the engine is compromised. The fuel injected system holds more advantages, why do you think modern cars don't have carby's?

[Full Spectrum]

Yeah it would be like removing a testicle

[s0sage]

look whos car it is ... hahha it doesnt matter if you remove a testicle or not if the whole system is shooting blanks.

jk nick mate haha

[Full Spectrum]

His mums??
hE should talk too Pele about blanks and limpness

[boomnvn]

talk to EFI Hardware in melburne (nunnawading i think). When I was working at autobarn in melb a customer showed me a carby setup on a origonally a EFI V8 in a VR.

[greenfoam]

Getting hassled by the EPA, maybe a huge fine and the slowest VN that exsists is about all you have to look forward to with this idea

[atrail308]

there are a couple of aftermarket manifolds for that, such as the harrop one and the torque-power manifolds, but you'll have to then use the older distributor such as the mechanical HEI dizzy out of the blue/black 308's...

[padrickz88]

umm i dont know much about carbys and fuel injected but what ive been told injected is better because its mroe efficient and you get more power. so what is the purpose of a carby set up on a vn? i know on older cars id rather have carby because it looks more original but why on a vn? whats your gains? its just one of them things i dont get so i fought i would ask.

[hakhawk]

ok, best way would be to hack up a vn manifold, diy style.

you will still get spark, just have to run the ecu still i spose, unless the coilpack can be run seperate to the ecu.

weld up the injector holes, weld on a carby base plate, weld up any holes that arent needed, etc.


also, pre vn buick v6's manifolds wont fit, different port layouts and coolant passages

[NORTI]

there was a VN in SC awhiles back, but after appearing in SC etc... EPA got him & had a field day on his arse & the car.... so that is back to inj now.....





D.

[greenfoam]

That was a LS1 countess, this guy is talking about his V6, just want to make the V6 go like a crusty old carby 202 I think

[s0sage]

i think he's actually aiming at a 186 greeny

[hakhawk]

why not just transplant in an old grey motor, will go like the clappers

[immortality]

i'm pretty sure Edelbrock do a carby manifold for the buick V6 3800 as thats how they came out in the states, lots of stufing around however with all your sensors etc

[greenfoam]

It's still crazy when you wont ever get the same throttle response, power, economy or ease of tuning that you have with efi plus it's 110 times illegal, may as well pay 400 bucks for a big lump of lead to stick on the floor on the car to get the same result. May as well just buy a VT