400SBC with a T-5. read about it, 18" irocs too


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eB...tem=2461584988

 

Sweet... very clean

 

its nice but doesnt do to much for me..

 

Its nice, but 475hp? Isnt that a little HIGH for that setup?

BTW: A 5spd "which is capable of handling the power".... suuuure.

Its probably still got the original LG4 motor in it, just dressed up all pretty... Anyone else catch the TPI snorkel?

 

It probably was a V6 and he just left the snorkle in there to fill up space. How many cars were at this "show"? Looks like a driver to me. I would drive it like crazy.

 

Didn't you see the yellow wire looming? Yellow is the fastest color, and each foot of that stuff ads 28 HP ya know

 

damn i thought it was 30 hp


and a t-5 that can handle 457hp, i'd sure like to see that

 

food for thought, Doesnt someone beef up t-5's so they can handle like 500 hp?

 

car looks good, couple fishy things but still nicer then 99% of the third gens i see

 

dont forget the 20 hp from each of those chrome radiator and winsheild washer bottles... would have thought he would have taken off the tpi air snorkel thing

the 457 hp is to the flywheel to, so it probably has less to the rear wheels

 

A G-force t-5 can handle 500 plus and a tremec can also handle 500 plus.... there r 2 of em.... but then he didnt say he has those did he.

 

I don't see why it'd be hard to believe a Dart headed 406 would have any problem putting out 450 hp at the flywheel. Am I wrong in thinking this?

It is a really nice car, I love the interior. That's exctly what I want mine to look like. Anybody know what kind of door panels those are? Custom?

 

i was wondering the same thing on the door panels, at first when i looked at it quick i thought that they were 4th gen's but they arn't they are third gens. i am going to email the guy asking him about the door panels

 

If you've got the money anything is possible. Check out the price tag on this 5 speed setup!
http://www.5speeds.com/racing/jt5rc.html

 

not bad, some guy around here has 18 inch chrom iroc's at my school havent got to talk to him yet; they look pretty good.

 

ok i sent him a email to find out a little more about the car here is the email that i sent, had to give him a bit of bs, so i hopefully will get answers from the guy

"hey, i was looking at the camaro on ebay and i had few questions for you about the car so here they are, first why do you still have the stock tpi air scoop on there if you have a open element filter ? it says that there is 457 hp at the flywheel but how much rwhp is there ? are the washer/coolant bottles painted or did you find chromish ones somwerhe, and wehre if you did, and it appears that those are 4th gens seats, and the door panels seem to match them, but they are not 4th gens, i was wondering what kind they were or if you had them custom made ? what engine/ tranny did the car have it in origonally ? and what kind of t5 is that ? is it a tremec, g-force, world class or is it just built up ?



as soon as i get a email back from him i will post his reply

 

i got a email back from him if anyone is interested

Hey
Im responding to your question:
1) the stock TPI air scoop is there basically because it blows more air under the hood which is then sucked in by air filter...it can be removed however, it does serve a small purpose.
2) approx. 400 rwhp
3)coolant bottles are painted, I have 2 other black ones if you dont like them.
4)seats out of 95 Trans am...custom door skinns, leather as well
5) tranny is a World Class T-5, bought it last summer as well.
anymore questions, e-mail me.
Ryan

 

Thanks white91

 

So how is the t5 built to handle the power ?

World Class oh yeah, it can handle it ....

 

maybe thats why he's selling it

 

~400 RWHP? Uh... unlikely; dyno sheet please

 

Hello, it doesn't take a lot of effort to get that meager amount of power with 406 cubic inches and good heads. 406 cubes+dart heads+rpm manifold+headers, etc= a lot of hp. Looks like a nice, clean, fast car.

 

What about yellow plug wires.... or should I go get wire looming too?
..nice sub box btw...

 

Ya. with the amount of money hes spent on this car one would think he would get a custom made box for it...

nate

 

Ditto. It's funny how that car would put train lengths on just about everyone talking smack about it in this thread.

 

that car is friggin bad, i love it!!!!!

 

Whats funny is, T5 + 18 Inch 245/40 series tires. By the time he even became close to hooking the race would be over, or his tranny would fail!

I'm not disagreeing with you though, even if he isnt making the power he is saying, it is still making a pretty solid street machine. I just have a problem with the T5, why in the world would you leave a T5 behind it, then say it can handle it because its a World Class. If you believe that, then....Yeah.

By the way I dont have any times/numbers yet, but my Vortec headed 350 would be a pretty good battle.

 

Flywheel horsepower and Rear-Wheel horsepower are generally pretty different numbers. It's not impossible for a well built 400 to achieve 450 or so horses, but losing about 75 in drivetrain loss seems generous. It seems to me the 400 is more of a torque monster, and would have to be taken to uncomfortable RPM's for that block to hit it; however it does have a forged bottom end. I had a roller 408 in my Nova with World heads and World intake, it ran 12's and yanked the nose off the ground for a hop or two, it was all torque. That's just my experience, but that's how I built the engine, for torque. With a forged bottom end I'm sure you could buzz it up to make that kind of power, but maintaining 400hp at the rear wheels seems a bit high to me. That's all.

EDIT; Not a flame, not a put down, not an argument, just expressing my opinions and experiences.