jazz2561 wrote:
Thanks for the reply, I know the wheelbase is long, but its long for a reason. I was looking at the Bentley Flying Spur Speed and I was totally blown away. The car is almost 5500 lbs and can do 200 with a zero to sixty of 4.4 seconds.
not to discourage you,
but to get that kind of performance out of a heavy tank you need
major HP....
major HP =
major trans
major trans =
major rearend
and on and on it goes ....
this is the engine we stuffed into that buggy;
it is a
mind blowing fast car (and even street legal)
... but your looking at $ 40000+ for the engine alone (all aluminum, all forged internals, dry sump oiling ,...)
add to that the twin turbos, EFI and all the complex plumbing (way past $ 10000)
and then you still need a trans (i dont remember how much the full manual shift Alison/TH400 hybrid that we used was
)
and a rearend that can handle that power ($ 7000 custom B&J 10" Quickchange with 41 spline output shafts and all 300M internals)
heck, i remember that the EFI fuel pump (what was the size of a pool pump
) alone was more expensive then my DD car
(ok, i drive a POS E150 van
.. so maybe it was not that bad
)
dont even get me started on the extra large Radiators and coolers (all 6 of them
) ...
anyway.... if you dream about that kind of performance your looking at a
major money-pit
(sure, it was a lot of fun for me to build the car ... but in all reality its just insane to sink that amount of money into a "Toy")