[DeTomaso] New Ford GT Transaxle
boyd casey
boyd411 at gmail.com
Mon Jan 4 22:29:29 EST 2010
Sounds great , Just let me check my lotto tickets.
Boyd
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:24 PM, David Gordon <dgordon100 at cox.net> wrote:
> A guy on the GT forum is currently selling a brand new GT engine and
> Ricardo transaxle. He posted the retail price of both if you had an
> inside source at Ford to get one since they are both out of production
> and no longer officially available. Ricardo was recently clearing out
> refurbished units at approximately $6500 as noted earlier. There is a
> gear change to 3.90 available from Stillen for ~$10K. Then the cost and
> time to have Wilkinson install both the engine and the transaxle is
> substantial since everything is one off and developed from scratch at
> least for Mark's car. Ford is not as accommodating as Chevy is with the
> availability of engine control units and wiring harnesses so the wiring
> harness has to be made. Mark is also getting traction control made by
> Wilkinson on his car as well as seriously considering a bigger Whipple
> supercharger which should put him at 800+ RWHP. I am thinking of
> getting the Race Logic traction/launch control unit that Discovery
> Automotive had custom built by Race Logic to handle the GT engines twin
> staged injectors per cylinder. I don't think you can truly appreciate
> how big that engine and transaxle package is until you see it in person.
> The pictures don't have the proper scale in my opinion.
>
>
>
> Here is the info from the Ford GT forum.
>
>
>
> "If available the current retail is $35593.32 plus $7500 core charge for
> a total of $43093.32
>
> The transaxle is $13642.14 plus a $3200 core charge for a total of
> $16842.14
>
> Both assemblies = $59935.46"
>
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