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just curious to find out what the symptoms of a slipping clutch might be

no shit, i dont think i would be telling anybody in your school how to get more horsepower

your car is possessed

we've been telling him that but joe doesnt like to liston to reason

www.v8rx7.com if you want to check out the v8 swap, granny's speed shop wont put it on his site as a link because granny's doesnt always do the best customer service and best of work and the builder of that site and starter of the forum tells the truth about them and is subjective, granny's mainly puts sites that only say good things about them in their links section, its a good place to find out about it tho a normal swap will usually cost anywhere from $3000 to $6000 normally unless you are lucky enough to find a donor car with everything you want, then its usually only maybe the price of the donor car + maybe $1000 at the most for brackets and other little stuff and fabrications like exhaust and getting the PCM tuned and tach recalibrated

its about time someone else decided to finally turbo a GTP and take off the supercharger i was wondering if the intake manifold from the 3.8 series II on an F-body would fit since the inlet is on the other side making it easier to do the turbo set up with an intercooler

i was just asking because nick told me about it on the V8RX7 board they mentioned about something that uses part of the optispark to do cam position while using the LS1 coil packs, right now im still planning on going with an LS1, i was just curious about it, i try to know a little about a lot, and a lot about a little

just curious to know more about this, nick told me it replaces the optispark and makes tuning a lot easier, so i was wondering what else it does and how reliable it is or will it need fixed/replaced just as often as the optispark?

well, i am not one of the real knowledgable ones for sure but i do know just to make sure you know, that LS1/LS6's are completely different than any other Small Block Chevy engines so really any parts can only be swapped between them, unlike LT1's which have a lot in common with other SBC's the other guys will be able to get into a lot more detail and help you out a lot more tho

most of that you could most likely do yourself, the rear wheel bearing and trans. mount might be the only ones that you might need someone else to do

cool, i didnt know fwd/awd engines could be switched to rwd very easily that would be a kick ass car, so light and a long powerband would be nice, and sounds like it would last a hell of a long time too

are those the engines in the Truenos? i've been looking at the SR20DET engines in the 240SX's, those are pretty cool little cars, you can get a good amount of power out of them would make really fun daily drivers on zilvia.net they have some drifting in what looks like an actual track built specifically for drifting, and those fuckers really move too, from what i've read its not too hard to get them up to around 300~400hp

if thats that ford turbo 4cyl engines from the SVO and thunderbird turbo coupe i actually thought about those, cept i dont know much about them and what i did find out was supposedly that parts for them are a little hard to come by, just didnt get very good responses when i asked about them so i passed on that idea, i did find out someone i might have been able to get a rebuilt one from, not sure if her uncle still has it tho

you would be surprised, with the engine staying NA, it will actually be still 50/50 and just as light, some even end up lighter than a T2, once a turbo setup would be put on it would of course offset the balance somewhat, i still think it should be in maybe the 53/47 range, no matter what its going to be fun as hell tho

ok sorry, its a Dana 353 rear yoke that i was thinking of i already know i will have to have a custom drive shaft built, and i also have been considering an NA setup, and yes i know turbochargeing it will make it slightly more front heavy, it will be a while after the car has been up and running anyways, so by the time i turbo charge it i hope to have a 240sx to do autocross in and wont be using it for that, i will be using it for mainly cruising/drag/highway runs, i already know those things, this is why i was only asking about the capabilities of the engines and rear diff's dont take this the wrong way but, i dont want a rotary(and yes i know what a streetport is), i want some serious power to last longer than 3 years and not have to worry about a small mistake blowing up the engine and have to start all over again so anyways, no boost for you, about the mustang 8.8 rear end there were guys actually talking about using one of those too after working on a couger and said it would most likely go in pretty easily, i dont know of anybody doing it yet but there are some with a solid rear axle for drag racing, but i know im not going to be doing that so i still have the handling, so its looking like im going to start keeping an eye out for those or one from a new '03 cobra

LOL, there are always extra parts, havent you learned that by now?

ok, i know the other guys were talking about changing out the whole suspension in the back but wasnt sure which corvette model they were talking about, is it setup the same way in the C5's? looks like ill be looking into the mustang's i was kind of figuring i would have to go with one anyways, just wanted to find out a little more about the corvette's

i think a dana 44 piece is actually used on the driveshaft to mount it to the mazda diff. so that would actually be good to use that i wouldnt have to buy a different driveshaft once i needed it to put it in i know if i used a corvette/viper's i would have to change the length of the axles and shorten them, im not sure about the mustangs since its not as wide of a car, that would be nice because i wouldnt have to worry about it breaking at the welds any idea how much the two cost?

oh wait, misred's motor is a 4.1L going into it, to replace the 3.8L http://www.misred.com/DSCF1036.jpg

yes there are a few of those, example: www.misred.com but like i said i want a manual right now, and depending on how smoothly this swap goes i've considered maybe doing that, but i doubt i will, most likely move on to newer cars by then, the GN engines are also a bit harder to find, it would be a nice swap for a convertable i think, just to cruise around in, not having to worry about shifting and just let the sun come down, but still able to womp all over any cars wanting a piece btw, how much power can a corvette and mustangs rear end with the IDS handle?

remember this is going to be a street car tho, and has to be able to be fine cruising threw a parkinglot still, it will have a manual boost controller so i can turn it up and down from in the car, i want it to get atleast somewhat decent gas mileage when the boost is turned down

im going with a GM over a ford because a GM engine seems more natural to me if money was the main issue, i would definetly be going with a Ford 5.0 engine tho

i think im going to go with an LS1 because its lighter and easier to get to the power numbers i want there arent any rx7's that i know of with modular mustang engines in them but there are a few 5.0's in the FC's

well i guess the reason im being a bit vague is because i dont know exactly what i would need, just what i want to shoot for which is ~600rwhp so far i just know the quickest way is to get an LS1 with an LS1MS single turbo kit and working the engine and setting it up for more boost thats pretty much what i've decided to work for already, but i just wanted to make sure that it will be able to handle it reliably and last a good deal of time on that setup, i dont plan on running it at that power ALL the time, i just want it there when i want to use it, otherwise the boost will be turned down to just maybe ~450hp for daily driving until someone wants a piece

well, another consideration is that its going to be a semi daily driver too, i've made up my mind that its an LT1 or an LS1 going into it, unless i somehow really come into some money and then ill just get an LS6 im pretty much leaning mainly towards an LS1 so how much power would a typical LS1 be able to handle if the compression ratio was lowered and forged internals on boost? like an example i know smokinhawk's firebird is turbocharged and how much hp it has, so how long would that engine be expected to last if nothing else was added to it?