quote:Originally posted by CrazyDave:
I have done the Tarus motor conversion, in fact, doing it about 10 years ago, I could of been the first or at least the first to publicise it. I had talked about it on the Email Forum.
I experienced a similar problem with the window motor gear not going deep enough to fully catch/engauge the teeth on the door mechanism. What I did was to machine a small portion of the motor mounting surface to make the motor sit deeper. At the time there were many motors to choose from, but I chose the Tarus because they were FREE. I never got around to writing an article because my pictures came out blurry.
I have something like 50% engaugement. It seems to be enough.
CD, have you had any problems with the motors since?
As far as traction is concerned, with 800 it must be like driving on ice?
I had 563hp and it would just spin tires from a standing start. I would also have hot spots all over the flywheel and pressure plate.
I built a new engine with only 10.5:1 compression and took some cam out. It's only 485hp.
It goes through a clutch after 10 runs instead of 5.