After what seems like forever, and after so so many mock-ups, we finally get to drop in the motor/tranny assembly! It is starting to look like we are making progress. We have been picking away here and there in between customer jobs and it is slowly coming together. We had not dropped in the race motor because we were using the mock-up block. We used that to get the positioning and geometry all sorted, as well as fitment of the headers.
We are using a NASCAR Spec 4 speed gearbox with a Competition Clutch 6 puck unsprung clutch set up. With all the room in the engine bay I think we could have fit a Detroit Diesel motor in there. There was a little less room in the tranny tunnel though, and a custom tunnel was made to clearance the shifter linkage. As you can see the motor is sitting pretty far back and only the 2 front pistons are not behind the strut towers. You can also see the motor is really low in the engine bay, the oil pan is about a 1/4 inch off the subframe. Weight distribution is not going to be an issue in this set up. It helps that Dan weighs all of a 130 lbs soaking wet! In the end we believe that power adders are not neccessary with our power to weight ratio and weight distribution balancing.
WOW!!!! one of my favorite cars with one of the top 2 engines ever mass produced. sick. let me shoot it when you are done please lol
Hell yea. I’ll hit you up when we are done bubba.