I hear ya, drift guy.... reted

Why don't you fab up a dry sump oil system for it. I woudl think that you could do that pretty damn cheap with the fab skills you have. And if you spending $1600 on the tremec. why don't you just spend the cash and get a G-Force built T5, much better tranny IMHO.

I found a way to get the motor properly mounted behind the steering rack, low and back damn near up against the firewall the way it should be. Some sheet metal massaging was required, but it's looking sweet now. The granny kit is a workaround in my humble opinion, the motor should always be mounted as far back and low as possible; this is a sports car after all. :)

I briefly thought about dry sumping it, but it looks like I found an easier way. I'll put up some pics soon.

I love the way that little 5.0 looks in there though, it is as far back and as low as the stock rotary was. A strut tower bar will go right over the distributor; just about all of the engine is behind the strut towers, I can even use the stock subframe mount hardpoints. :bigthumb:

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not to be a dick or anything but you should start your own thread concerning your 5.0 swap this is a DOHC thread and your being totaly off topic.

Are you sure that is the same tranny as i am talking about? this tremec is designed for 500ft/lbs its not just any T5. and im staying below 500hp/tq so this is what im gonna stick with.

You are off topic, this is a dohc thread and you're talking about the T5. Physics major!

well i was asked what tranny i was going to use with a DOHC, so it relates. your just talking about OHV stuff and your own little project.

Sorry to step on your toes, northstar high roller. Ford / lincoln engines are not made by cadillac. See title of thread. :bigthumb:

Two v8 swappers fighting and not a rotard in sight. LOL.

Are you seriously asking Jeff not to crap in his own thread?

:gay:

If he wanted to talk about fairies and fruit loops in here as the thread starter that's his perogative. Talking about the Northstar and T5's isn't exactly on topic either.


You can get the T56 with all sorts of gearing options.

http://www.ttcautomotive.com/English/products/T-56.asp

The tranny for the 93 F-body yhas a .62 final gear

http://www.sallee-chevrolet.com/fram...ner/bwt56.html

Dry sump and cheap don't belong in the same sentence. The whole point of doing a 302 is that he can get it into the car cheap.

How many dry sump setups have you seen/done that are cheap? Not too many.

Bwahaha, this always happens to me. I think I either suck at life, or am a magnet for revilers. I never see any revilers in person, only on the internet. I'm sure I have secret haters in the real world too. :rofl:

You should see the shit I get for using a 2.3 "lima" turbo.

Back on topic guys. This has gone far enough. Start your own thread if you want to go offtopic.

So where are some damn pics Jeff? As an official fanboi of a lot of your previous work (your paint thread got me the courage to respray mine in the garage), I want to see how your fall to the dark side is coming along? :)

I'll start a new thread with an appropriate title. Sorry LT1, I was out of line and it won't happen again.

You serious? You're going to marshall thread content now? As long as people aren't bickering or flaming each other why should you care what direction the thread takes?

Yes, I am serious. That's what moderators do.

I was not the only one to speak up about things going offtopic.

We'll have to agree to disagree on that then. I don't think that's a moderators job at all. IMHO You're just supposed to be there to step in when things cease being civil and smack people around when they're out of line.

Your previous actions (or lack of action) don't support that claim either. There are plenty of examples of unchecked sillines in this section.

I don't see you correcting the silliness in Jim's monstrosity thread , or reigning in Nihilanthic in the Ford 2.3 thread, so why here?


Sometimes offtopic is where little nuggets of info pop up. As long as it's not wanton silliness or vindictive bickering I don't see a problem with it. Forums are just an extension of conversation and sometimes the conversation wanders.


Your job isn't the director of programming for the OEC subform.

Trying to keep Jimlab's thread on topic is impossible. It was a monster thread way before I stepped in here and has a life of it's own. That being said, I'm leaving that one alone unless he specifically asks me to make a change to his thread.

Nihil uses the 13B=2.6L argument in every thread he posts. What else is new?

Sure it is. See, this program has been cancelled :)

What a way to start your Sunday with a thread going absolutely nowhere.