Thread: 3.8 ford v6

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Does any one have any info on who or where I can purchase 3.8 ford hypo parts. I am currently looking for a good camshaft for streetrod and would like to install a noisey geardrive. Any help would be greatly apprec. thanks. 3.8fordman

Are you sure you want to go there on the engine most likely to blow a head gasket in the entire world. If you have to hot rod one then I would sugest finding a wrecked SC t bird with a blower but even then I wouldn't go crazy.
They are ok engines as v-6's go but man they blow a lot of head gaskets. Oil pumps are a major source of the pain in my tail too. I work in the shop at a car lot so maybe I am biased from only seeing the bad ones but maybe not. I owned a 93 couger since new till some trucker decided to use it as a speed bump a couple years ago. It had the 3.8 and went through 3 head gaskets in 120,000 miles. I am very anal about my maintenance too so it was very well taken care of. My 91 ford 4x4 has well over 600,000 miles on it and still looks and runs perfect. All 3 times I replaced both gaskets and everything was done right. The second time I did have to replace the left head thanks to being cracked from my wife driving it too far with no water.
If you must do it though I suggest a ford motorsport catalog. Summit racing has them and has good prices.

Thanks m14dan I apprrec. the info.

It's me again. I was working on a 97 mustang today fixing the air conditioning and while it was sitting there running I smelled rotton eggs and noticed the coolant bottle was empty at about the same time. It only had 65,000 miles on it. With further checking I found both head gaskets blown. Guess what engine was in it. Yes a 3.8. It wasn't a lot car either, It was a freinds that bought it new.
Oh well. One thing I should have mentioned is to use felpro gaskets and new bolts with sealer on the threads and a can of copper high tach spray on the new gaskets if you ever do run into this problem. It will last the longest in my experience anyway.
I asked at the junk yard today at this freinds request about a replacement engine from a supercoupe. It was gonna be 400 bucks with the computer and harness. They said there was no demand for them so maybe you will luck out and find a good one cheap too if you want to go that route. Superchargers rule no matter what engine they are on. I guess I am gonna have another one to build in the shop this week. OH BOY! Lots of luck to you on building yours.