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Here's weekly dose of your catastrophic engine forensics! Every week you can find a new teardown of some abused, misused and/or poorly designed engine. I've got over 160 videos of failed engine teardowns on this channel.
Today's teardown is an engine that has been suggested over and over again, but they're generally too reliable to wind up on my stand. The GM 3800! Easily one of my favorite engines GM has ever produced. This particular engine is a series III NA engine, the L26. This 200hp engine could be found in most full size GM Sedans in the mid 2000's. This engine is from a 2006 Grand Prix GT with 126K miles. A very premature death for one of these engines as they typically last 250-300K with relative ease. Huge thank you to Premier Automotive in Godfrey IL for supplying this weeks teardown!
The series 1-3 3.8L V6 is one of the most robust, fuel efficient, cheap to repair, and neglect tolerant engines of its day. They are incredibly thrifty on fuel for their size, propelling full size cars down the highway getting 30+ MPG. They make great torque, and supercharged version are quite peppy even in stock form. Its a real shame they discontinued this engine in favor of the wretched early 3.6L V6, quite the polar opposite experience for most owners.
Why am I doing this? I own and operate a full service auto salvage facility called Importapart and part of our model includes dismantling core and blown engines to salvage the good parts to resell. We do not rebuild or repair engines, we merely supply parts to those who do!

I really hope you enjoyed this teardown, as always I love all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism. Catch you on the next one!

-Eric