Question for Callaway B2K owners...
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Question for Callaway B2K owners...
Just out of pure curiousity... What does you digidash look like? Are all pre-90 Callaway Vettes using the same digidash as all regular pre-90 TPI Vettes? What's the redline?? Do you all know your transmission gear ratios and rear-end ratio? Aren't all Callaway Corvettes manual 4-speed with a different version of the Doug Nash 4+3? Did any come in ZF 6-speed or 700R4 automatics? Thanks for the info...(If someone is kind enough to post this info.) 
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The only change to dash was addition of boost gauge in left vent of center dash section + addition of Callaway emblems and premium fuel plaque. No change in tach. This is pretty much standard for 87 to 89 with minor differences in Callaway name plates and location. !n 1988 Callaway built 26 automatics, and 17 automatics in 1989 all others were stick shifts. Callaway didn't change rear axle ratios. By the way my 89 is 1 of 15 6-speed convertibles built in 89 Ike
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Originally Posted by k0rv3tt389
What does you digidash look like? Are all pre-90 Callaway Vettes using the same digidash as all regular pre-90 TPI Vettes?
What's the redline??
Do you all know your transmission gear ratios and rear-end ratio?
Aren't all Callaway Corvettes manual 4-speed with a different version of the Doug Nash 4+3?
Did any come in ZF 6-speed or 700R4 automatics?
and I think so. I can't remember if the automatic version was a 700R4 or something else.
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All the automatics I have seen were Dana 36 from the factory and not changed to Dana 44 by Callaway. The automatics were actually Turbo 400's with a British Laycock-GKN OD unit on the tailshaft. These were the transmissions that were used by the British in Rolls, Bentley, Jaguar etc. Cost of automatic option around $6,500. Hope this answers a few of your questions. 
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Originally Posted by GlennS87
I thought the overdrives from Gear Vendors.
I don't know for sure..but I'd also like to know (Since I hope to own an automatic B2k one day...)
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Instead of a B2K, sometimes it seems better to put a turbo, upgrade engine and drivetrain internals to withstand power or at the least supercharge the thing. I see some people here in the forums are pretty happy with the results of just a 6 psi supercharger kit. Hmmmm... about the same power as a B2K option but not as "classy" and/or "exotic" as the Callaway Vettes. But that will still be a lot of money but not as much as the value of a typical clean Callaway C4. If I only had the money... it sure talks!!
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From: Modesto CA
Originally Posted by k0rv3tt389
I see some people here in the forums are pretty happy with the results of just a 6 psi supercharger kit. Hmmmm... about the same power as a B2K option but not as "classy" and/or "exotic" as the Callaway Vettes.
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From: San Diego , CA Double Yellow DirtBags 1985..Z51..6-speed
Originally Posted by TIMSPEED
But something about this, just screams [Ivan Drago]You will lose[/Ivan Drago]
I still can't get over that flat black TPI. I'd get that polished.
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I remember seeing the Gear Vendors ads also on the OD unit. The information I used was from an article about the automatic Callaway in the 1989 Road & Track special series magazine on Corvettes and the new ZR-1 along with other Vettes and Callaways. No idea if suppliers changed?? Not a lot of info on the 43 automatic cars Callaway built!
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Originally Posted by k0rv3tt389
Instead of a B2K, sometimes it seems better to put a turbo, upgrade engine and drivetrain internals to withstand power or at the least supercharge the thing. I see some people here in the forums are pretty happy with the results of just a 6 psi supercharger kit. Hmmmm... about the same power as a B2K option but not as "classy" and/or "exotic" as the Callaway Vettes. But that will still be a lot of money but not as much as the value of a typical clean Callaway C4. If I only had the money... it sure talks!!
The Callaway isnt a stock L98 with turbos bolted on...its a forged bottom end w/ dropped compression for the purpose of turbocharging.
My car makes over 400rwtq from 2700 to 5400rpm and over 500rwtq from 3100-4600rpm.
I have new number coming with the addition of a AZspeed runner/extrudedhoned intake combo....
Torque will be well over 600rw.
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Any specs of the Callaway Corvette engines? Bore/stroke? C/R? Rod, piston, crankshaft material? Cam specs? Do they use a sleeved block? Iron or aluminum? I *heard* the compression was 7:1 compression, making it ok to drive it on low grade gas if you wanna granny it all the time. Again, I'm not so sure...
That car is surely a work of art on a standard small block. 180 mph speed? Has anyone hit 200 mph before? Taken a pic of it? I bet even the ZR rated tires would have melted if left at that speed for long enough. I can imagine what temperature the exhaust system is experiencing. Whooooo...
That car is surely a work of art on a standard small block. 180 mph speed? Has anyone hit 200 mph before? Taken a pic of it? I bet even the ZR rated tires would have melted if left at that speed for long enough. I can imagine what temperature the exhaust system is experiencing. Whooooo...
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stock bore/stroke 350ci, stock cam, 7.5:1 cr, cosworth or mahle pistons, stock block with 4bolt splayed caps, stock heads with upgraded springs, and no you can never drive a boosted motor on cheap gas...well I guess if you never boosted the car I guess you could but why?
187mph top speed stock for an 88+, 191 for an Aerobody car. 254.76 mph for the one of a kind Sledgehammer.
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187mph top speed stock for an 88+, 191 for an Aerobody car. 254.76 mph for the one of a kind Sledgehammer.
Forum member Ultra Slow has gone 197mph in his car.
