Re: V-8

Posted by Buzzman72 on February 11, 2012 at 10:44:57 from (74.129.196.127):

In Reply to: V-8 posted by Telker on February 10, 2012 at 12:18:22:

Saw an H a few years back with a GM 2.8 V6 in it that looked pretty nice. Of course, my first thought was that a 2.8 was pretty "gutless"...but when I read that the builder had put an S-10 4-speed manual transmission, locked into 2nd gear, in the torque tube, it made perfect sense.

The engine turned a bit more than twice as many RPM's as the original H engine. Second gear in the old S-10 4-speed tranny is approximately a 2:1 gear reduction. SO...the S-10 tranny serves to reduce ground speed to about what it would've been with the original H engine, PLUS it's used for torque multiplication, so that the 2.8 isn't nearly so gutless as it would have been.

So it's a win-win all around.

BUT I'm convinced that if you're gonna do a V-8, you should step up to an M.

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