jfryjfry said:
I get running stand-alone electronics for engine and abs, but you’d also be figuring them out for door handles and lights too. Probably not insurmountable.
But the transmission’s electronics might be.
However, the answer already exists! (Although in a usable form, it might not....):
Manual! And this would be the greatest accomplishment of the project.
Yeah, I'd be happy with ABS and the base model transaxle (stock mechanical LSD) rather than the higher final drive ratio and eLSD in the Z51, but I'm serious about de-contenting the vehicle...I like the "racecar for the road" aesthetic of the Challenge/Stradale/Pista cars. I don't care if I have to rig up Porsche Cup style door pulls and what-not, I don't really care about any amenities besides AC.
As for manual, it's cool, but I'm no hot-shoe top dog race driver, I could never heel and toe on my best day anywhere NEAR what a flappy-paddle gearbox can do with STOCK programming. I'm ok with that. There are literally only a handful of manual gearboxes that are actually capable of handling LS/SBC level torque AND bolt-in without adapters...low end is $9950 (Weddle HV25), middle is $15k-ish (Supercar System transverse box), high end is $23k+ (Albins AGB-10 & Albins ST6).
I could go Graziano L140 with drop-gears (Audi R8/Lambo Gallardo) $10k for the box, $2k for the gears, $2k for the labor, $2k for the adapter/flywheel, etc, but why? So I can say that I shift it myself? I'll never be as good as the computer...and I'm ok with admitting that.
cbaclawski said:
Well, I'd love to watch this get done, but 2-3 years from now just to get started is an awful long ways out for what is an if/maybe/want to...
I love DOHC 8's, in fact I have 2 (LT5 mentioned above and BMW s65) I just don't know what you expect asking if people want to see pic's IN 3 YEARS!
You're right, of course. I guess that I'm looking for the junkies and fiends like me, who are always looking for their next automotive fix. Where I live, it's all bro-dozers and old beat up trucks that get built...no hot rods, no pro-touring builds, no exotics...no track builds (except dirt track racing or demo-derby cars), nothing that I really LUST after. I like a wide variety of build styles, but my fetish is road-going mid-engine corner-carving rolling-sex...and it gets lonely when you can't ever bring up even a mental-build, without other "car" guys looking at you like you're batisht raving crazy.
So yeah...deffo jumping the gun, but you never know when someone might turn me on to a new idea, part or aesthetic that inspires me to raise the bar thru the roof. THAT is the stuff that feeds my soul.
In reply to Gingerbeardman :
Curious now where you live!! I feel pretty confident that when your project actually starts there will be pretty overwhelming response/interest in it.
I didn't mean to be dismissive, I just go through about 2-3 "dream builds" a month,(I'm betting you do too) so it's pretty hard to get excited about anything that far in the future.
I definitely agree with you that there is a lot more to an engine than peak HP/TQ #'s, and a lot more to a car than 0-60 times. I can also relate to not having anyone to talk to about crazy ideas. I don't have the skills to pull much off anyway, but there is one other car guy at work that I am sure I annoy the piss out of by constantly talking his ear off about crazy stuff.
I hope when the time comes you follow through and build something unique and awesome. When you are done playing with it and ready to move on to the next challenge, I "know a guy" who'd likely be VERY interested in taking it off your hands...
In reply to cbaclawski :
I live an hour from the East Gate to Yellowstone. There is A LOT of money around here, but all you're likely to see is old men driving new Corvettes to and from WalMart, Cadillac Escalades, Lincoln Navigators, the occasional Audi or Mercedes, jacked-up rolling-coal diesel pickups, and Ford Raptors, as far as "enthusiast" or "interesting" vehicles. Tons of beaters, rolling appliances and old 4WD trucks.
The most interesting car I've seen in-the-flesh was a white Alfa 4C parked in the Michael's parking lot in Billings. Smaller than I thought, but still taller than the Lotus Elise.
I'm not an elitist or a Euro leg-humper, I just like what I like...some men prefer blondes, some brunettes, some trailer-park girls, some high-maintenance types...I prefer something long, lithe, nimble, with junk-in-the-trunk where it belongs.
I just want to Tesla model s swap a c8.
But I can't say I wouldn't really enjoy watching your valiant struggle!
