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You ok pascal? Whats wrong that blow off valve coughing again on you :p

just trying to be the last post whore before the T1 goes down

Guys I think you need to see the picture this car is putting down 294 to wheels in the 100F and in the winter it will rise over 300+ to wheels were talking alot hp and a flat a strong torque curve of about 300+ lbs pushing a 3000 pd car. This car with slicks will definitely break into the 12's in the winter nights.

The car is neck snapping at 3500 rpms and revs like a b*tch from what Keith said.

Look SS run low 13's with less hp and more weight and break into 12's with slicks.

Give it time

Show me the time slips and I'll believe it.. I'm still a believer in that the tranny won't be able to handle the power, Quaife or not. There are too many parts of the car which aren't equipt to handle this kind of abuse. Running slicks is just asking for trouble.

But, I'll eat my humble pie if you guys do get into the 12s and have no issues with the car afterwards. Heck, I'd probably buy another Tour and get it Turbo'ed!

From Gary Mumm's site:

"We had a problem with the teeth of the gears stripping. We're making good power and on hard acceleration, the weak link was the gear teeth. Here you see a stock gear stack on the right...compared with the custom gears we?re running shown on the left. If you look closely, you?ll see the teeth on many gears are a LOT thicker. BTW, this was a very expensive -- and difficult -- conversion."

"12/10/01
Bluntly, the weakest area of the car so far has been the transaxle and axles. We?ve broken several axles and transaxles. The majority of our problems have been in this area. The pictures below show some of the work we?ve done to get the reliability up."

they were running like 300 hp right? IIRC there custom gears were something like $5,000!!!

Exactly.. And I think Buckshot's problems at Spring Zing showed you just what could go wrong..

How does that show us? He was naturally aspirated when it happened. He drove up from Iowa and then had trouble autocrossing IIRC. It showed us that problems can happen no matter what you do.

Right, with stock power, he was able to do that.. With a turbo, your chances of that happening are 10x worse. We've got people on here that have gone through multiple spider gears because of wheel hop and such. All it's going to take is one bad launch with the turbo to destroy it, unless you spend the extra bucks for the Quaife. Even Terry agreed on this point.

As I said before, to build a reliable turbo SVT is going to cost a tremendous amount of money. If you feel fine driving a $30K Contour, fine. I wouldn't be able to sleep at night, knowing that I'll never see $25K of that again.

I'll take 2, that is if you can get a turboed SVT for 5k: 30k-25k. I do see your point about the reliability of forced indution. However if the car was not going to be used for drag racing applacations such as 3 or 4 grand launces with slicks and driven with common sence, there is no reason why there should be any problems with the turbo aplications even with the stock trans..

And wouldn't it be neet the next time your crusin down your local Blvd. at a 30 Mph role and and the guy beside you in the Z06 gags on it and is left inhaling the fumes from your blow off FFFPPPSSSSSHHHHHH!!!!!!! :p