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blk7gxn

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Greetings to everyone here, my name is William and its a honor to be part of such an awesome group of "G" body enthusiast! Its my passion and has been for most my life. The 78 79 80 "A" body cars and the 81- 1/2 year 88 "G" body cars represent , to me, the last era of awesome rear wheel drives to ever come out of GM. My passion is mostly with the Buick turbo's, early models right through to the last of the great 87 Grand Nationals. While Im typing away at this moment, i would like to ask if anyone could help me here answer a question. I have owned ONLY automatic "A" and "G" body vehicles, I have since acquired a 4 speed 1978 Buick Century Sport Coupe car. Could anyone tell me what model transmission this would be? Any help would be very much appreciated!! Thanks in advance! Looking forward to making some new friends on here for sure :)
 
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Welcome to the site. Please post some photos of your car(s). Your '78 Century should have the Saginaw 4 speed transmission in it. The '78-'81 GM A body cars with 3 and 4 speed manual transmissions were Saginaw transmissions. Some '78-'79 A body cars could be ordered with the 260 Olds V8 with a 5 speed manual transmission, which was a Borg Warner unit.
 
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Welcome, to the best G Body site.
 
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blk7gxn

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Welcome to the site. Please post some photos of your car(s). Your '78 Century should have the Saginaw 4 speed transmission in it. The '78-'81 GM A body cars with 3 and 4 speed manual transmissions were Saginaw transmissions. Some '78-'79 A body cars could be ordered with the 260 Olds V8 with a 5 speed manual transmission, which was a Borg Warner unit.
Thank you very much for the warm welcome and advice! Appreciate it greatly! Is the Saginaw Transmission a good transmission? The Buick has the 3.8 V6..and do you happen to know the percentile of standard transmission in the production Buicks for 78?
 

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Welcome,I'm a pedal car guy myself.
 

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