(96 PG Se)New to the forum and new to the car!

[1996PGSe]

Hey everyone first time to anything like this so forgive me if I make a couole if mistakes not much of an imternet guy.

I have a 1996 Pontiac grand prix se bought it ar a steal 400$ motor is just bad anyone know what is a direct swap or plug and play motor would work besides the same car?

[1996PGSe]

And I already started by not proof reading 😂😂😂 I apoligize !

[Galaxie500XL]

We’re a pretty laid back group around here, so no worries. Welcome!

[1996PGSe]

Thank you I just got the car do I'm ready to make it road worthy again and hopefully in the future make it rwd.

[Dark Ride]

A rwd gp is a pretty tall order, next to impossible. A lot of guys like swapping in an L67 (supercharged 3800), pretty straightforward and lots of power.

[1996PGSe]

Is that a plug and play route of motor will everything connect or do I have to add a new harness etc.

[jimmyfloyd]

Is that a plug and play route of motor will everything connect or do I have to add a new harness etc.

 

It is not plug and play. The only plug and play motor will be one of the same type and vintage as you have currently, so 3.1 or 3.4L I would guess. It does not have to be from the same brand or year necessarily, but it will need to be similar, and it will need to be a GM vehicle. 

 

The 3.8L L67 Supercharged motor swap is doable, but requires a fair amount of work, including swapping out axles, mounts, transmission, accessories, etc, and customizing the wiring harness to fit the car. Not terrible, but will require time and research. There is a lot of good information on this site to get you going, but no one is going to be able to provide you with a plug and play guide/manual on how to do it, as each swap is slightly different.

 

Making the car RWD will be a monumental task. Most that I have seen have been bodies dropped on completely custom tube frames, usually for drag racing. This will not be easy, nor cheap to do. 

 

Good luck, and we will help where we can. 

[1996PGSe]

Thank you! And im going to stick to the rwd later on in the years and hope I dont have to make any big changes to the frame other that the transmission area and the rear end i was thinking of a custom rear end but I'll keep every one updated and thank you for the help with the engine questions!

[1996PGSe]

I figuered with doing all that work for the 3.8 I'll just go big amd put a sbc in it!

[Imp558]

I suppose you could gut the subframes out and set it on another vehicle's frame. There was an unfortunate mishap a long time ago with a nice TGP and an LS1 that resulted in the loss of a perfectly good TGP trying to convert the car to RWD.

[1996PGSe]

I was thinking if cuttjng the back part out of a rwd frame and transfer it over and some how weld it together .. But im doing more research

[Nas Escobar]

There was a guy around in the interwebs that cut the body off of a WS6 and grafted a Z34 on the WS6 frame. They're not equal in size and had to modify the body.

[Imp558]

In the end I think there would be so much weight added that any power to weight advantage would be negated.

In theory there was the 5.3L drivetrain that could be swapped in.

 

BTW welcome to the forum.

[Dark Ride]

On a scale of difficulty where making it rwd is a 10 then swapping in an L67 can't be more than a 3. It's mostly just a game of gm legos. If you REALLY want more power than it can take build a turbo 3800. Pretty easy to make huge amounts of power with those. I would say that is maybe a 5, 6 at most.