80's project cars...
I was / am into the 80's GM cars. Have several Buick and Olds cars; plus a 72 Chevy Nova. My screen name comes from my hobby of building turbocharger systems for these cars. I've built 6 or 7 of them.
Out of my collection, the favorites are my 84 Buick Century and 86 Buick LeSabre Grand National. The Century is a 1984 Olympia edition, to commemorate the 84 Summer Olympics. The LGN is one of 112 sold to the public. It was a homologation car to qualify the LeSabre coupe body style for NASCAR that year.
These both have the LG3 front-wheel drive roller cam 3.8L V6 engine. The Century has aftermarket cam and put down 362 HP on the dynamometer. (uncorrected, measured wheel HP) The LGN hasn't been on the dyno but has similar engine build with stock cam.
These cars never came from the factory with a turbocharged engine. The whole system is custom built, including the charge air pipework, exhaust pipework, coolant and oil pioework; and ECM tuning. Most importantly, the transmissions require extensive work to hold up to these engines.
I drive them, as well. I've had the Century for over 15 years and it has over 100,000 miles on the build. The LeSabre was done for a friend about 7 years ago. I bought it from him when he had to down-size his collection. It doesn't have a lot of miles.
Sincerely,
David
