Lets build a mid-engine Trans Am - need advice
please no more posts, the author has an answer for all suggestions, it's his project and already knows how to do it, on a budget, with no assistance needed. i guess he just posted a rhetorical question in the first post? sheesh!
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Good luck Jason. I wish you the best. Unfortunately, it is difficult to take a project of this magnitude seriously.
Go get a mechanical engineering degree and do this for a living if it interests you. I fear that you are never going to have the financial resources to make this happen.
Go get a mechanical engineering degree and do this for a living if it interests you. I fear that you are never going to have the financial resources to make this happen.
Good luck Jason. I wish you the best. Unfortunately, it is difficult to take a project of this magnitude seriously.
Go get a mechanical engineering degree and do this for a living if it interests you. I fear that you are never going to have the financial resources to make this happen.
Go get a mechanical engineering degree and do this for a living if it interests you. I fear that you are never going to have the financial resources to make this happen.
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Man, I really hate to bring up a thread I said was done, but this just occured to me.
When I said the above I left off the part about having the cars suspension able to drop it to the ground. If you don't mind raising the engine up a few inches in the body then you could easily build a reliable, cheap and fast mid-engine F-body with the Syclone or Caddy drivetrain. An auto with a transfer case and then have the axle run under the engine. My unique plans won't allow it, but if you don't mind a stock height vehicle and a stock rear axle location, then it can be done.
Just look at posts #28 and #33. You could even use the donor vehicles front suspension as your rear suspension to keep from fabbing one from scratch.
Still think I'm crazy?
Crazy like a fox!
In reference to post #352, I've been building a tube framed nose for my other car. It's almost done.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/generatio...elocation.html
I wanted this to be reliable, cheap and fast, but I couldn't acheive it.
Just look at posts #28 and #33. You could even use the donor vehicles front suspension as your rear suspension to keep from fabbing one from scratch.
Still think I'm crazy?
Crazy like a fox!
In reference to post #352, I've been building a tube framed nose for my other car. It's almost done.
https://ls1tech.com/forums/generatio...elocation.html
Last edited by JasonWW; May 12, 2009 at 08:30 PM.
Yes, this thread was done a long time ago, but I never went in here since it was an old one and I've been sticking to threads started or bumped after I took "office."
So, JasonWW got the last word in.
So, JasonWW got the last word in.
