not exactly inline tech...

Asa

Asa

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...but i was wondering
one of my main goals in life is to build two custom machines:
1) Robo-bug, an old beetle with a chromed out hi-po engine in back with the whole body chromed out, have the windows mirror-tinted, interior would be black (i know you wouldn't be able to drive it during the day, but it would still look cool)

2) an older F-series truck with twin big-block engines (854 cubic inches in a stock rebuild........ :twisted: :twisted: ), one up front under the hood, the other in the back under the bed-cover, each powering their own set of wheels

and my question concerns #2, what tranny could i use for that? lookin at a pic of a GT-40, i'd think that would work for the rear engine, but for the front i'd need a trans-axle of some sort

please don't tell me i'm dreamin, cause it won't discourage me, i'm not plannin on doing this within the next year or anything, but one day.....
i think everyone has a "one day..."
 
i remeber hering way back in the 60's olds had a car called the hairy olds or something like that w/ 2 hemis on powering the front and the other the rear but im not 100% on that but sounds possable to me
 
TH400 drivetrain out of a 1st generation Olds Toronado which had the 455 in it. Use that on BOTH ends. To make it real simple stick with the BB Olds engines, that's 910 CID in stock trim and many, many HP available. The Olds block has a small army of loyal afficionados who hate the SBC as bad as we do and there are a handful or specialty suppliers as well as all the standard sources.

Now, how are you planning on synchronizing the RPMs?
 
StrangeRanger":12gyn9wg said:
Now, how are you planning on synchronizing the RPMs?
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i'd rather use a Ford, but that's just brand loyalty...
don't know how i'd sync them up....
hmmmmmm is it possible that EFI could do it? let the computer handle it all?
 
In 1965 Hurst built an Olds 442 powered by two 455 Olds engines driving thru two Toronado TH400 transmissions. Do a search for the Hurst Hairy Olds to get some history.

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Well brand loyalty is fine but not if it can be done cheaper and better with some thing else. :wink:
How about a pair of 500 Cadillacs with the 425 transaxles. It's so easy to pull 450hp and 580ftlb torque with a mild engine.

"Insert WARNING LABEL here"
In fact if you had one of the Urban Gorrila kits (looks like a hummer) you could fab your own lengthened A arms and axles to match the extra width of the hummer body and add some very long coil over shocks.
You would have an imitation hummer with independant 4 wheel steering and 900hp.
Damn thing would terrorize every Red Neck for 400 miles! :twisted:

John
 
John! Don't say things like that! Thats why theres a million SBC powered classic Fords out there. Brand loyalty can be a good thing!
 
Two twin-turbo'd intercooled 534cu.in. Ford truck engines = 1068cu.in. = 17.5 Liters of gigantic torque. Time their TDCs 45 degrees apart for a smoother power flow and nicer exhaust sound through four non-muffled 6" diameter exhaust stacks. Let those Cadillac sissies hear how a REAL V16 sounds!

J.R.
 
What an awesome pic thats is in the above. Can you buy those at the car dealers. Wouldnt that get the looks at the lights. You would win every time not just because of the traction but because everyone would be still sitting at the lights with their mouths hanging open while you disappeared out of site.
 
i saw something about the Hurst Hairy Olds on one of those TV channels once, might've been discovery, might've been the speed channel on one of the rare times they weren't showing nascar, i think that's my inspiration for what i want, might also be the original GT-40 when i realized "hey, you can put a big engine in the back!" then thought "why not put one in the back, and in the front..."

how many here have seen that BBC that made upwards of 1000+ HP naturally aspirated and on 92 octane gas? oh yeah, it idled at around 800 RPMs or something like that, guy that built it said that the main worry was keeping the temp down.....

god, you'd have to have a gas tank almost as big as the cab...
 
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