Diablo canned tune on a 3.8

shovel · May 8, 2023

Yep.

shovel · May 16, 2023

This was tuned with a Diablo i2 which is discontinued but the i3 works the same way

unterstutzung87 · May 23, 2023

I may be in the minority but I love the 3.8 and love seeing people mod them, such a fun motor. Was hoping to see more 3.8 builds.

shovel · May 23, 2023

I sought this thing out specifically because of how boring it is to see all the non-gearheads moo about V6 Mustangs being disposable and hopeless - to me it's more of a skill test that a lot of people flunked. I don't really think the 3.8 is a particularly great engine but the flaws it has are a known quantity, and it does have some merits. I'll work with anything, just enjoy the process.

I wish I had more time to put into Youtube because this build series could have been a lot more entertaining if I did. When this car all comes together I hope a few people will "get it" and of course some folks never will.

unterstutzung87 · May 24, 2023

shovel said:
I sought this thing out specifically because of how boring it is to see all the non-gearheads moo about V6 Mustangs being disposable and hopeless - to me it's more of a skill test that a lot of people flunked. I don't really think the 3.8 is a particularly great engine but the flaws it has are a known quantity, and it does have some merits. I'll work with anything, just enjoy the process.

I wish I had more time to put into Youtube because this build series could have been a lot more entertaining if I did. When this car all comes together I hope a few people will "get it" and of course some folks never will.

I love seeing them being built there is a company super six I think? They have awesome parts for 3.8 v6s. I will gladly follow a 3.8 build any day ! I smoked some pretty fast trucks in a 3.8 5 speed new edge they were all shocked too.

shovel · Thursday at 12:43 PM

It'd be fun to throw some money at Super Six or Morana but I'm not in that tax bracket. I'd be curious how much they sell since Mustang owners as a whole have made a religion out of hating any piston count fewer than eight. Maybe there are a couple people out there building beastly Tauruses

I'm putting a set of SVO heads on my GT in the near future and when that happens I will have a spare set of 1.73 roller rockers that might make their way into the 3.8 just for giggles. I doubt it will have a significant effect on power alone. I look at tuning as a holistic process where each individual part might not make a huge contribution but as a whole they do add up. I wouldn't buy the roller rockers for this engine - they're "free" if I already have them.

Going split port is the obvious choice for making significantly more power and I'm not going to do that because I have arbitrarily decided on limits and once I'm swapping heads I might as well put a 4.2 bottom in there too (a whole 4.2 from a junkyard is not too different in price or difficulty vs. split port swapping my bottom end) and if I'm putting a 4.2 in I might as well just put a 5.0 in, and I already have a 5.0 in my other Mustang... hopefully you see where I'm going with that.

So this car is staying single port but I want to see how far I can take that. It's not too serious, just something to do while waiting to die.

unterstutzung87 · Saturday at 10:51 AM

shovel said:
It'd be fun to throw some money at Super Six or Morana but I'm not in that tax bracket. I'd be curious how much they sell since Mustang owners as a whole have made a religion out of hating any piston count fewer than eight. Maybe there are a couple people out there building beastly Tauruses

I'm putting a set of SVO heads on my GT in the near future and when that happens I will have a spare set of 1.73 roller rockers that might make their way into the 3.8 just for giggles. I doubt it will have a significant effect on power alone. I look at tuning as a holistic process where each individual part might not make a huge contribution but as a whole they do add up. I wouldn't buy the roller rockers for this engine - they're "free" if I already have them.

Going split port is the obvious choice for making significantly more power and I'm not going to do that because I have arbitrarily decided on limits and once I'm swapping heads I might as well put a 4.2 bottom in there too (a whole 4.2 from a junkyard is not too different in price or difficulty vs. split port swapping my bottom end) and if I'm putting a 4.2 in I might as well just put a 5.0 in, and I already have a 5.0 in my other Mustang... hopefully you see where I'm going with that.

So this car is staying single port but I want to see how far I can take that. It's not too serious, just something to do while waiting to die.

Well thats pretty bleak, hope you enjoy your builds.