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Remanufactured Honda 3.5L V6 Engine - Odyssey
3.5L · V6 · Part 547W
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4-year no-fault nationwide warranty — includedOn gas engines in non-commercial use, at no extra charge. The builder’s standard cover is 3 years, parts only. Every gas engine we sell includes the 4-year no-fault warranty with labour, at no extra charge.
- “No fault” means we do not investigate why it failed — if a covered engine fails inside the term, it is covered.
- Labour is paid up to CAD $95.00 per hour — a cap on the rate, not a flat payout — and only for the remove-and-replace hours in the Mitchell labour guide. Diagnostic time is covered up to 2 hours, and fluids up to CAD $200.00. Towing and a rental car are not covered. Anything not listed here needs to be agreed with us before the work starts.
- The 4 years start the day the engine is installed, and a claim needs proof that a professional shop installed it.
- Unlimited kilometres, and no deductible.
- Call us before any warranty work starts, so we can authorise it. Labour paid on a repair we were not asked about first is not covered.
- A claim starts with a call to us. We file it with the manufacturer, and the manufacturer pays it.
Diesel engines, and engines put into commercial service, are not covered by this 4-year warranty — the terms vary by engine, so call us for the terms on the unit you’re pricing.
Add an install kit. Thermostat, water pump, belts, hoses, filters, plugs and leads — the parts that should not go back on a new engine. Ask for one with this engine and we quote it on the same order. What a proper install replaces
Warranty included — terms above
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Fits
- Honda Odyssey 2008–2015 · 3.5L V6
Not sure it fits? Call (780) 473-2424 with your VIN and we'll confirm.
4-year warranty included
Refundable core
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Engine guide
Honda J-Series V6 (J30 / J32 / J35)
Also known as: J-Series, Honda J30/J32/J35, Honda SOHC VTEC V6, Acura 3.2/3.5 V6
Overview & history
The J-Series is Honda's fourth production V6 family and easily its most successful. Introduced in 1996 — the 3.0-litre J30A1 debuted in the 1997 Acura CL — it replaced the older 90-degree C-Series with a far more compact 60-degree, all-aluminum design meant purely for transverse installation. Designed in Japan, it has been built almost entirely at Honda's Anna, Ohio plant — the company's largest engine plant in the world — and later Lincoln, Alabama. Displacements in this family run 3.0, 3.2 and 3.5 litres (a big-bore 3.7 J37 sibling came later), all sharing SOHC VTEC aluminum heads and a single timing belt. Over three decades the J-Series powered virtually every V6 Honda and Acura sold in North America — Accord, Odyssey, Pilot, Ridgeline and Crosstour on the Honda side; CL, TL, MDX, RL, RDX and TSX for Acura. It earned a reputation as one of the most durable V6s around, with a few well-known habits covered below.
Specs & engineering
- •60-degree all-aluminum V6 — open-deck block with cast-in iron cylinder liners
- •Transverse-only design with short 98 mm bore spacing — one of the most compact V6s of its displacement
- •SOHC 24-valve heads with intake-side VTEC on most variants; one cam per bank keeps the heads narrow
- •A single timing belt drives both camshafts — an interference design with a firm replacement interval
- •Shared bore/stroke logic across the family: J30 = 86 x 86 mm, J32 = 89 x 86 mm, J35 = 89 x 93 mm
- •Variable Cylinder Management (VCM) debuted on the 2005 Odyssey's J35A7, idling one bank at cruise; J35Z engines got second-generation VCM
- •Factory outputs in this era run about 200 hp (J30A1) to 286 hp (later J35Z); Type-S variants added dual-stage intake manifolds and higher compression
- •Sequential PGM-FI injection throughout; direct injection arrived with the 2013 J35Y generation
Generations & variants
- •J30A1 (1997-2002) — 3.0L, 200 hp; Acura CL 3.0 and 1998-2002 Accord V6
- •J30A4 / J30A5 (2003-2007) — 3.0L, 240 hp; seventh-generation Accord V6
- •J32A1 / J32A2 (1999-2003) — 3.2L; Acura TL and CL, with the 260-hp Type-S J32A2
- •J32A3 (2004-2008) — 3.2L, 270 hp; third-generation Acura TL
- •J35A1-J35A9 (1999-2010) — first-generation 3.5L; Odyssey, Pilot, MDX, Ridgeline, RL; the J35A7 introduced VCM in 2005
- •J35Z1-J35Z8 (2006-2017) — second-generation 3.5L with VCM-2; Accord V6, Crosstour, Pilot, Ridgeline, TL, TSX V6, Odyssey
- •J35Y (2013 on) — direct-injected 'Earth Dreams' 3.5L; mostly newer than this catalog's coverage
- •J37A (2007-2014) — 3.7L big-bore sibling; MDX, RL, TL SH-AWD and ZDX
Vehicles it powered
- •Honda Accord V6 (1998-2017)
- •Honda Odyssey (1999-present)
- •Honda Pilot (2003-present)
- •Honda Ridgeline (2006-2014, 2017-present)
- •Honda Crosstour (2010-2015)
- •Acura CL / CL Type-S (1997-2003)
- •Acura TL / TL Type-S (1999-2014)
- •Acura MDX (2001-2020)
- •Acura RL (2005-2012)
- •Acura RDX (2013-2018)
- •Acura TSX V6 (2010-2014)
- •Saturn Vue V6 (2004-2007)
Casting numbers
| P8A | J30A 3.0L SOHC VTEC cylinder heads (left and right), 1998-2002 Honda Accord V6 |
| P8E | J30A 3.0L cylinder heads, 2003-2005 Honda Accord V6 |
| RGL / RGM | J35A 3.5L SOHC cylinder heads, 2005-2008 Odyssey, Pilot, Ridgeline and Acura TL |
| RDJ | J35 3.5L cylinder heads for non-VCM applications (Odyssey, Pilot, Ridgeline) |
| R9P | J35 3.5L cylinder heads, later Honda Pilot and Ridgeline applications |
| R70 | J35 3.5L SOHC cylinder heads, later VCM-era engines (also appears as a code in ATK application data) |
Known issues & fixes
VCM oil consumption and plug fouling (2005+ J35A7 and J35Z engines)
What to watch for: Oil level dropping between changes, rear-bank misfire codes, oil-fouled plugs, blue smoke on startup. Honda settled a class action covering 2008-2013 models.
The fix: Keep oil topped up and plugs fresh; badly gummed rings need a re-ring or a reman engine. Many owners fit a VCM-disable module to stop the cycling that causes it.
Timing belt service — interference engine
What to watch for: No warning signs — go by age and mileage; roughly 7 years or 160,000 km.
The fix: Replace the belt, water pump, tensioner and idlers together as a kit. A snapped belt bends valves on every J-Series.
VTEC spool-valve (solenoid) gasket oil leak
What to watch for: Oil seeping down the block from the VTEC solenoid housing; on some installs it drips toward the alternator.
The fix: Reseal the spool valve — cheap gaskets and quick labour if caught early.
EGR passage clogging on early J30A (1998-2002 Accord V6)
What to watch for: Surging or hesitation at steady light throttle, unstable idle, P0401 insufficient-flow codes.
The fix: Clean the EGR valve and intake EGR ports; Honda offered an updated EGR pipe kit for chronic cases.
Worn engine mounts and driveline shudder on VCM-equipped models
What to watch for: Vibration at light-throttle cruise around 60-110 km/h — often misread as an engine miss.
The fix: Replace worn active/vacuum engine mounts and service the transmission fluid before blaming the engine.
Did you know?
- ★GM was a customer: the 2004-2007 Saturn Vue's optional V6 was Honda's J35A3 — a Honda engine in a GM showroom.
- ★The AR35TT twin-turbo race engine in the Acura ARX-05 prototype was derived from the production J35 — minivan architecture that won IMSA prototype championships and the Rolex 24 at Daytona.
- ★Introduced for 1997, the J-Series still powered new Pilots, Odysseys and Ridgelines nearly 30 years later — one of the longest production runs of any V6.