Uping performance of a non-turbo Regal?

[StlRegal]

I have a 84 Regal 3.8 carb and just wanting to get better performance out of it. Im not asking for any mircles but what are my options of maybe getting a few more HP out of it?

I am on a pretty tight budget and with emissions right now im not going to even bother trying to add a 350. (Only two more years to when it doesnt matter)

So what can I do to get me by for now?

 

[Hafrod]

I HOT RODDED a 3.8 NON TURBO once! I went to a salvage and bought a 4-barrel Q Jet intake manifold from a 4.1 Buick LeSabre. I used an adapter plate and put on an Edelbrock 600 cfm carb,10 inch OPEN element air cleaner, gutted the cat,installed a Accel super coil and module, and put in a cam kit. It ran really good but as far as emissions goes, I DON'T THINK IT WOULDA PASSED!!! I live in OKLA and around my area we don't worry about emissions! I think Edelbrock makes the above mentioned parts(intake,carb,and cam)for emission standards though!Performance Automotive Warehouse (PAW)has lots of 3.8 hop up stuff and chrome stuff too for CHEAP! The 4 barrel would REALLY wake it up, but then again so would the cam!

 

[Adam Connell]

Making sure everything is running correctly and tuned goes a long way. I honestly wouldn't play with it too much, it probobly isn't worth modifying... thats what these dumb ricer kids dont get... their cars are pefectly acceptable until they go and do a bunch of stuff to them.

Just a thought though, it's your car so do what makes YOU happy and enjoy the hel out of it!

 

[blackstallion]

If you have strict emissions requirements its going to be tough you could do the simple stuff exhaust,air filter,The most important mod for a n/a regal is a gear swap I did this to my n/a regal years it really woke up since most have 2.41 gears switch to a 3.23 ratio.Go to the junkyard and find a 4-door 78-87 regal,cutlass or lemans they seem to have 3.08-3.23 gears don't know why?

 

[StlRegal]

ok, thanks for the info guys

 

[Ttype83]

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