ORIGINAL: sinceire

My logic is saying this, the engine has ALOT less mi than my current one (lol) The supercharger alone cost a whole lot more than there selling the engine. But I am curious as to whay type of supercharger comes on these engines?

ORIGINAL: bumpin96monte


You do realize that is just a shortblock right? IE- its just a block, pistons, rods, crank, front cover, cam, etc- there are no heads, no supercharger, no anything else.

So if you put this in your car, you're goign to add a very tiny bit of power from increasing from your current 9.4:1 compression to the 9.5:1 that comes with (plus a tiny bit more power from being bored .020 over).

I dunno if the cam would help or hurt you-its a very mild cam made for a supercharged engine, so unless you plan to add a supercharger, I don't think it would help you much being NA.


Personally, I wouldn't say theres a catch at all. I know its a lot of money into it (figure $800 for the pistons, $750 for machine shop work, $300 in stock parts like the block and such, $100 for the head studs (minus nuts), and $300 for the cam- but it is a used engine. Not to mention rebuild 3800s are not very desireable at all. I'd be very weary of it unless they gave you the information about the shop- and it was a shop that has rebuilt 3800s before. These aren't as simple to rebuild as many machine shops think they are- and many end up spinning bearings and such. So I actually think $1200 for a short block from an unknown engine shop is actually pretty high priced IMO.

edit- not to mention it says there is absolutely no warranty- if you spend all day putting this thing in and it spins a bearing in the first block you drive it- you're screwed.