1934-1950 Buick and GM Parts Interchange Manual. Click on thumbnail to zoom. Item #: BK93450QCA11FLP9N4Z Our Price. 1934-1935 Buick Series 40. Rebuilding the 3.8L Buick Engine. The all new Series II 3800 was used for most of the naturally aspirated applications in. Buick has used five different. Buick 3800 Series 2 Interchange Manual Online We take pride in offering the most extensive collection of Buick parts online. Buy here and take advantage of our low.

• (natural aspirated engines) • (supercharged engines) The Buick V6, popularly referred to as the 3800 and initially marketed as Fireball at its introduction in 1962, was a large used. The block is made of cast iron and all use two-valve-per-cylinder iron heads, actuated. The 3800 was on the list, made Ward's yearly 10 Best list multiple times, and is one of the most-produced engines in history. To date, over 25 million have been produced.

In 1967, GM sold the design to. The era had taken hold, and GM no longer felt the need to produce a V6, considered in North America an unusual engine configuration at the time. The a decade later prompted the company to buy the design back from (AMC), who had by that point bought, and the descendants of the early 231 continue to be the most-common GM V6 as it developed into a very durable and reliable design. Though the pre-3800 (RWD) V6 uses the bellhousing pattern, an oddity of both the (FWD) and RWD 3800 V6 is that although it is a 90° V6, it uses the (Metric Pattern). Sentou Yousei Yukikaze Ost Rarity.

For use in the FWD applications, the bellhousings on the FWD transmissions are altered slightly. This engine has the cylinders numbered 1-3-5 on the left-hand bank (front bank for FWD applications) and 2-4-6 on the right-hand bank, the number 1 cylinder being the furthest from the flywheel end. The firing order is 1-6-5-4-3-2. The engine was produced at the plant in, with engine blocks and cylinder heads cast at the Grey Iron plant (now the GM Saginaw Metal Casting Operations plant) in. It is a derivative of Buick's 215 cubic inch (3.5 L) aluminium V8 family, which also went on to become the, another engine with a very long life (1960–2006).

Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Fireball V6 [ ] The first engine in this family was introduced in 1961 for the 1962 model year with Buick's 198 cu in (3.2 L) engine, the first V6 in an American car. Because it was derived from Buick's 215 cu in (3.5 L), it has a 90° bank between cylinders and an due to the crankshaft having only three crank pins set at 120° apart, with opposing cylinders (1-2, 3-4 and 5-6) sharing a crank pin in, as do many V8 engines. The uneven firing pattern was often perceived as roughness, leading a former American Motors executive to describe it as 'Rougher than a cob.' In 1977, Buick redesigned the crankshaft to a 'split-pin' configuration to create an 'even-firing' version.