[DeTomaso] New Ford GT Transaxle

Ken Green kenn_green at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 5 00:35:15 EST 2010


Is that the same (one off) car Wilkinson was working on about 4 years ago?
 
Ken

--- On Mon, 1/4/10, David Gordon <dgordon100 at cox.net> wrote:


From: David Gordon <dgordon100 at cox.net>
Subject: [DeTomaso] New Ford GT Transaxle
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Date: Monday, January 4, 2010, 7:24 PM


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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