Quote Originally Posted by kodiak View Post
There’s not a lot of V6’s out there with significantly more power then the V6 that’s already in your VX. If you wanted to put a V8 in there you would need to replace the whole drive train. There is a member that’s doing this with an LS1 drive train. I think he was close to finishing the project.
You're trippin'....at 215hp our 3.5 liter was "modest" even by 2001 standards. Modern Hyundia 3.5 is bumping against 275...Nissan's over 300(3.7) much less the serious V6 guys in Germany. You couldn't sell a V6 with only 215 on tap any more....hell, they couldn't sell them then. I'm not trying to be mean or anything, don't take this the wrong way, but, our driveline is a boat anchor....a wheezy, overly thirsty,engine, mated to an overtaxed 4L30E 4 cog that was much happier in the Cimmaron...no matter how you program it. This car crossed some boundries, but the eng/trans certainly wasn't one of them. Strictly a case of what was available already, and cheap to buy.