AWD TT Trans am?
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From: Lynnwood, WA (North of Seattle)
Originally Posted by Payne
So you are gonna build an AWD Twin Turbo LS1 car on $9 an hour with NOOOOOO help from your rich daddy?
Bull ****.
Lets assume you pay nothing for food, rent, insurance, clothing, gas, cable, power, or any other things required for life, and you make $8 an hour after taxes.
The assume $20k for all of the parts and free use of tools, shop, etc... and you do EVERYTHING yourself (paint, welding, allignment, etc). BTW, IF you work 12 hours a day and go to school, so when are you gonna have time to build it?
Anyways, at $8 take home into $20k in parts, thats 2500 hours... at 12 hours a day, thats 208 work days.
Just a normal guy my ***...
Bull ****.
Bull ****.
Lets assume you pay nothing for food, rent, insurance, clothing, gas, cable, power, or any other things required for life, and you make $8 an hour after taxes.
The assume $20k for all of the parts and free use of tools, shop, etc... and you do EVERYTHING yourself (paint, welding, allignment, etc). BTW, IF you work 12 hours a day and go to school, so when are you gonna have time to build it?
Anyways, at $8 take home into $20k in parts, thats 2500 hours... at 12 hours a day, thats 208 work days.
Just a normal guy my ***...
Bull ****.
First of all, can anyone on this forum spell Syclone?
Cyclones were made by Mercury, not GMC
Second of all, you are VERY VERY VERY wrong on the transfercase information. The Syclone/Typhoon BorgWarner 4472 Transfercase can handle as much power as you can toss at it. There are 4000lb SyTys running mid-9's using the 100% stock transfercase without problems. I would venture to guess the transfercase can easily hold 900 - 1000HP.
Transmissions on the other hand, thats a different story. 700R4/4L60E's have a hard time holding together in a high torque, high horsepower, AWD environment, but there are alternatives.
Cyclones were made by Mercury, not GMC
Originally Posted by MattSEG
As for the cyclone/typhoon transfer case. They can't handle over 500hp in a 2600lbs car (According to either steilow or lillard, forgot who, that built the famed quadradeuce).
Transmissions on the other hand, thats a different story. 700R4/4L60E's have a hard time holding together in a high torque, high horsepower, AWD environment, but there are alternatives.
Well just my $.02 i come from a very affluent area and his story sounds like a lot of my friends, and atleast in their cases the job serves more as discipline than anything financial... i wouldnt for a second doubt a 7 figure bank account in this kids name.
And the 2nd question... for all the trouble to get the car putting out "600hp" to all four wheels no less why not a different car... not saying a wrx or dorky import awder but with how creative you will have to get how much harder would it be to mod the living hell out of say a c5, convert to c4 irs and a transmission with transfer case and since the front and rear bearing packs interchange you could leave the front suspension somewhat alone.....
It would be a royal bitch to do and imho never worth it in a million years aside from being able to say to your buddies "Yea i made it into a awd twin tuirbo" However you would have to have someone else do it... sooo long story short dont bother
And the 2nd question... for all the trouble to get the car putting out "600hp" to all four wheels no less why not a different car... not saying a wrx or dorky import awder but with how creative you will have to get how much harder would it be to mod the living hell out of say a c5, convert to c4 irs and a transmission with transfer case and since the front and rear bearing packs interchange you could leave the front suspension somewhat alone.....
It would be a royal bitch to do and imho never worth it in a million years aside from being able to say to your buddies "Yea i made it into a awd twin tuirbo" However you would have to have someone else do it... sooo long story short dont bother
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This project is so easy its funny. Ok here is what you need to do... Take $7k out of the bank and buy my TT Stealth. Its is all wheels drive and even has all wheel steering. Hell I will even put trans am badges on it for you. 
