[Shotimes] Possible project car? / Rear Wheel Drive

[Ron Porter]

There's a few LS sites out there. A few ex-SHO folks now have an LS. Poke
around Google, you can probably find the sites, and they would have any info
about a V8-manual tranny swap.

The key issue is whether the V8 has a manual tranny on it in some other
application.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Maggiacomo [mailto:gtsrider@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 4:25 PM
To: Ron Porter
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] Possible project car? / Rear Wheel Drive

Ron... actually it's wine, not beer. But anyway,
well said... good points made about the "SHOness".
Do any of you remember the LS in it's first few years
came with a 5 speed manual, but only with the V6? 
Does anyone know of one of those being converted to a
V8? That would appeal to me and be very cost
effective.
OK... time for my afternoon nap.
Pete

--- Ron Porter <ronporter@prodigy.net> wrote:

> Lay off the any more beer this afternoon!!
> 
> Let's see....you now have a RWD Taurus with a
> Mustang drivetrain that (1)
> weighs more than a Mustang, and (2) will be slower.
> You have also spent
> $15-20K (assuming you did all of your own work) on a
> car that is worth maybe
> $2-3K.
> 
> And, it's definitely no longer a SHO. I had this
> wild idea about 10 years
> ago using a SHO motor, but I came to my senses!!
> 
> Want a nice RWD manual-tranny performance car? By a
> used G35 or 3--5-series
> BMW!!
> 
> The Gen 1-2 body was a very nice platform....in it's
> day.
> 
> IMHO the BEST way to mod a SHO, which I have been
> telling people for a
> number of years, and John Hrinsin actually spent big
> $$$ to do, is a
> slightly bigger SHO V6 with higher compression and
> other efficiency mods,
> and leave it n/a. You can get 300+ HP, and still
> have a SHO that has
> retained it's "SHO-ness".
> 
> Ron Porter
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net
> [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of Peter Maggiacomo
> Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 3:36 PM
> To: shotimes@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Shotimes] Possible project car? / Rear
> Wheel Drive
> 
> I know this has been discussed in the past, but
> lately
> I've been thinking about it again. After watching 
> Boyd and his band of Gypsys on American HotRod, I
> see
> that just about anything is possible.
> My thoughts were to run the 95 SHO MTX till the
> wheels
> 
> fall off, like many have done on this list and then
> when the "shell" is worth virtually nothing anyway,
> gut it and rotiserre it. Drop in a Mustang V8, 5
> speed
> tranny and an LS rear end and suspension.
> Maybe a front clip from an LS would be easiest.
> Any thoughts. I have my Flame Suit on.
> -Pete
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