Sleeper Project Anyone?

[32vfromhell]

An ecoboost 2.3L making 390whp with E30 fuel would be pretty mean.

[Chas_svo]

I agree - as long as you're talking about 85.5 and 86 SVO stuff. The smaller, earlier parts just plain sucked.

My '80 hatch had the complete driveline from an '86 swapped in, which means it had the PE computer and bigger VAM and injectors and .48 AR T3. This car was a lot of fun, but damn if it wasn't broken all the time. At least it was easy to fix.

Yep, the white '86 you saw at Sonic. It was actually pretty reliable until the Gillis valve stuck. Stock parts don't like 32psi...and then it converted to "something broke way too often".

[Baron Von Crowder]

there's an adapter now to bolt an SBF 4r70w behind one... or really any sbf bell housing trans you want.

[Chas_svo]

there's an adapter now to bolt an SBF 4r70w behind one... or really any sbf bell housing trans you want.

Canfield, but you usually have to wait for a prod run. I think I still have my NIB one.

[4EyedTurd]

I picked up a 2.3-sbf t5 adapter from Canfield and didn't have very much of a wait but that was ~3years ago.

[Chas_svo]

I don't remember how many years ago, but my wait was about a month, and they said that was "short" at the time. They may have been BSing.

[Baron Von Crowder]

I don't remember how many years ago, but my wait was about a month, and they said that was "short" at the time. They may have been BSing.

[looks at a stack of them on the shelf] "yeah, you're going to have to wait for a run, but it will only be a few weeks to a month, and that's really short!"

[46Tbird]

Yep, the white '86 you saw at Sonic.

That was many, many moons ago