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V-drives are pretty expensive, and I would not bet on them surviving long in a vehicle.
I think you should go high-tech. I saw a couple wrecked Odysseys on Ebay.
What I would do, buy a whole vehicle that had been rear-ended, take everything off and put it inside the bed of your lowered truck. It would look like an Indy Car motor when you raised the tonneau. These are easily capable of 300hp without any work at all. I'm having trouble finding a picture of the motor without the big cover, but it's a cool looking motor. The intake is aluminum tubing which would polish up nice. Another good thing about it is they have the best automatic tranny in a vehicle--it doesn't use planetaries, it uses countershafts and such like a manual tranny. And you would get something like a 4.63:1 rear end in the transaxle with a very loose converter and a huge overdrive. It would be very quick in a Ranger. The main thing is how to lock the steering up because I would use the suspension too, towers and everything--which you would have to build like they did in the picture.
I think you should go high-tech. I saw a couple wrecked Odysseys on Ebay.
What I would do, buy a whole vehicle that had been rear-ended, take everything off and put it inside the bed of your lowered truck. It would look like an Indy Car motor when you raised the tonneau. These are easily capable of 300hp without any work at all. I'm having trouble finding a picture of the motor without the big cover, but it's a cool looking motor. The intake is aluminum tubing which would polish up nice. Another good thing about it is they have the best automatic tranny in a vehicle--it doesn't use planetaries, it uses countershafts and such like a manual tranny. And you would get something like a 4.63:1 rear end in the transaxle with a very loose converter and a huge overdrive. It would be very quick in a Ranger. The main thing is how to lock the steering up because I would use the suspension too, towers and everything--which you would have to build like they did in the picture.
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