no, it wont work, they switched to the t45 trannys, in 96, find a 94 or a 95 3.8 and it wil bolt up just fine, or you could go through and swap the motor and the tranny out of the 96 and it will work, but the tranny alone will not work on an 83 motor, they run the t-5 tranny, 96 an dup run the t-45