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whE3Ls · **a good way to gain power on a 3 litre**

ok i just got my transmission rebuilt and now im want to get a little more out of my motor. ty

**92lebaronGTC** · 06-20-2007, 11:03 AM

Open the exhaust up, get a 52mm throttle body from a junkyard or online. Caravans from certain years had them. You can also advance the ignition timing if you are willing to run midgrade or premium fuel. I made a cold air intake with under $40 worth of parts. Buy a cone K&N air filter and some exhaust piping and route the filter under your battery for cooler air. A fresh set of spark plug wires and new plugs would never hurt along with a new distributer cap and rotor. All of these mods are fairly easy to do!
Read up on these websites too.
Performance Tuning the Mitsubishi 3.0L SOHC V6 engine in the Plymouth Sundance Duster/Dodge Shadow ES
Donovan's Dodge Garage

irocelectric93 · 06-20-2007, 11:49 AM

+1 for all that.

Phatfoto · 06-20-2007, 12:34 PM

Robert DeLucas site is still a good resource, Donovan's STILL has disinformation about burning up a computer if you use a non-stock air filter. Even my FAQ EEK6G72 is getting a little dated, and I need to clean up the links in it.

The final setup on my Caravan including advanced timing, hogged out the exhaust manifolds a bit, 2.5" downpipe with 2.5" cat and 2.5" Cherry Bomb, ported upper plenum, mildly ported and port matched lower intake, replaced the 19# fuel injectors with 27# injectors from Turbo 1 2.2s, polished 52mm TB and probably a few other things I've forgotten over the last 4 years. I could get 22MPG and smoke a lot of rice... Had the van to aerodynamically limited 115MPH a couple times. There is a pic on site for that too.

93sundance · 06-20-2007, 05:54 PM

Check out what I did to the car I used to have. I got it runnin low 14s

http://www.cardomain.com/ride/693477

whE3Ls · 06-21-2007, 04:19 AM

well in couple weeks ill most likely get a 52mm throttle body,and the cold air intake maybe some exhaust work. i "raced" street light to street light with an 01ish blazer and he wasnt pulling away i stayed about at his rear quarter panel

irocelectric93 · 06-21-2007, 11:36 AM

Is your car an Auto or 5 speed? If its an auto....id swap to 5 speed before doing anything. Believe me ive driven both....no comparison.

93sundance · 06-21-2007, 06:13 PM

yes, it is a HUGE difference. The 5 speed really brings these cars to life.

jory · 06-21-2007, 08:36 PM

+2, the difference is night and day. And with the 5 speed you can feel the difference that the other modifications make. An example is my 3.0 5 speed when it was stock meaning no bolt ons it ran out of steam and didn't pull as hard above about 5500 rpms. But with just the cone filter and 2.5" exhaust it pulled all the way to the rev limiter harder.