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Glad I drove the Corvette to the shop earlier this week... Winter arrived today no way I'd drive the corvette in this weather.
My V on the other hand...6-speed, rear drive, 500hp and 4 winter tires, great fun.
Heck, I won't even drive my Corvette if it is a little damp out. Pretty much zero fun to be had if I can't mash the pedal.
I have had several people ask me how my Toyo R888Rs handle in the rain and get goofy looks when I say .... "I don't know, never driven it in the rain".
Good work. I too had an 88 with 02 Z06 tires (421 sbc) 10 years ago. I also had a 2004 V with a MP122 Maggie on top making 575 rwhp. Good luck with the project!
Glad I drove the Corvette to the shop earlier this week... Winter arrived today no way I'd drive the corvette in this weather.
My V on the other hand...6-speed, rear drive, 500hp and 4 winter tires, great fun.
Hah, glad that you BC guys finially got snow there, that's just a couple flakes. Us Alberta's have had winter since the beginning of October. This week we get some warm arctic air, probably wont get above -25C or -13F for a high. The lows will be low to mid -30's. I drive a 4wd pick-up year around with winter tires here, and never take them off.
Hah, glad that you BC guys finially got snow there, that's just a couple flakes. Us Alberta's have had winter since the beginning of October. This week we get some warm arctic air, probably wont get above -25C or -13F for a high. The lows will be low to mid -30's. I drive a 4wd pick-up year around with winter tires here, and never take them off.
Meanwhile us down in Tennessee are sitting at 70 degrees. I'll probably put the top down for a drive later.
Heck, I won't even drive my Corvette if it is a little damp out. Pretty much zero fun to be had if I can't mash the pedal.
I have had several people ask me how my Toyo R888Rs handle in the rain and get goofy looks when I say .... "I don't know, never driven it in the rain".
Ya for sure, driving my Corvette in the snow with my BFG Rival S tires would probbly just lead to me ending up in a ditch somewhere. I have gotten caught in the rain a few times and had no issues there.
Originally Posted by 88BlackZ-51
Good work. I too had an 88 with 02 Z06 tires (421 sbc) 10 years ago. I also had a 2004 V with a MP122 Maggie on top making 575 rwhp. Good luck with the project!
Awesome, sounds like we have very similar taste in cars. I'm sure both your 88' and your V really hauled!
Originally Posted by Mike Holmen
Hah, glad that you BC guys finially got snow there, that's just a couple flakes. Us Alberta's have had winter since the beginning of October. This week we get some warm arctic air, probably wont get above -25C or -13F for a high. The lows will be low to mid -30's. I drive a 4wd pick-up year around with winter tires here, and never take them off.
Haha ya you Albertans have it much rougher than us in SW B.C for sure. The picture was taken in the moring it snowed hard for hours, we ended getting about 6inches of snow and a little slush at the end. It has stopped and warned up a little now though. The forecast for next week is showing -12C so it looks like were going to get our share of winter here too! We may not get a huge amount of snow here but we sure get our share of rain. About 2,000mm/year.
Originally Posted by Bfenty
Meanwhile us down in Tennessee are sitting at 70 degrees. I'll probably put the top down for a drive later.
Very Jelious! Then again without a real winter I might never take the car off the road to do projects on it.
Enjoy that fine Tenesse weather and some cruising!
Cool project...subbed. I do wish that one could get a gear set that put the 1 to 1 ratio at 5th instead of 4th. It's almost like these 6 speeds are just modified 4 speeds.
Cool project...subbed. I do wish that one could get a gear set that put the 1 to 1 ratio at 5th instead of 4th. It's almost like these 6 speeds are just modified 4 speeds.
Thanks Jaye Bass,
I think Richmond makes a 6 speed like that, however it is not really meant to go with an LS engine so using it wouldn't be straitforward like the T56 Magnum. I think one forum member may have made it work with some custom parts.
I'm really not sure why most manual trans make 4th 1:1 either seems like 4th being just a little under 1:1 and 5th being just a hair over 1:1 might work better.
Having said that the 5th on this Magnum is 0.80 so it is pretty close to 4th and should quite useful for high speed performance and 6th is also pretty close as well being 0.63, Which is why I chose these ratios.
The 0.75 (5th) and 0.50 (6th) ratios on the regular T56 (also avaliable in the MAGNUM) are not as useful except for highway mileage.
David, wow it would be pretty cool to drive a 600-700HP engine with a manual. I was going to do a turbo or a procharger when I did my build a few years ago. Maybe one day, maybe. My kid still talks about the last few days of 2019 grade 11, driving my 85 vette. He took a few of his buddies come to take a rip. They been asking where I parked it for the winter.
Yesterday, my leaky pounder POS pick-up decided to break a power steering line and leak anti-freeze out the intake manifold. Geeze we need some global warming here in Alberta, going to be -30's without windchill, -49 with. So going to a beauty of a day tomorrow.
Last edited by Mike Holmen; 01-12-2020 at 05:20 PM.
01-08-2020, 05:09 PM
LOL
