h949h
New Member
i love my SHO, and i just want to know. this engine. amazing of course, what are the highest numbers it can achive, when all is said and done. im talking bhp here. with ALL the mods you can get.
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blue92
SHO Member
You can get the engine to produce about 700hp, but the transmission can only hold about 400 if your lucky. What keeps killing all the boosted SHOs is the $hity transmission.
h949h
New Member
i was hoping it would be somewhere in the 600's but 700 would be quite nice yes. Im being very ambitous in the fact that im going to do a project car. im going to basically throw this engine in a beefy chassis with a t-5 tranny. im starting to draw up the plans (howeveri dont YET have the money =)).
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Pro*banshee
Active Member
Hate to be a stick in the mud... But until you find a way to mate said T-5 with the SHOtor other than the even more rare aerostar bellhousing Your project is limited to about 350 Hp/TQ using a 3.0 v6 ranger tranny
Several of the boosted Ranger guys are running over 350 lb-ft at the wheels and no one has yet blown up a Ranger manual trans. However, the Ranger auto trans is barely able to take the torque from the stock Ranger motor....
Lupo
New Member
Also the internals from the 4.0 ranger trans are more beefy, and they will swap into a 3.0 trans.
shobote
SHO Member
Lupo, just wondering, is this a 3.0 ranger trans or the SHO MTX 3.0 trans you are referring to ? I'm guessing ranger since I've never heard of anybody swapping internals on an MTX.
somedude_001
SHO Member
I am working on swapping a SHO engine into a camaro. We have made a adapter plate to mate the SHO engine to the TH400 transmission and for the T56 that I have. I have intentions of pushing the engine very hard since I will not be able to hurt a TH400 transmission even with a maxed out SHO engine. As long as it will take the high rpm that is.
38SHO
#1 Oil Abuser
the auto ranger transmission came from a pinto...
SHO92
New Member
The SHO MTX came from a Tempo...
shobote
SHO Member
IIRC the MTX-IV is from Mazda is it not ?
Lupo
New Member
It's the Ranger 3.0 trans I am referring to. You can use the 3.0 ranger trans case with all the internals of the 4.0 trans, which are beefier.
That's what we are doing with the RangerSHO right now.
Lupo
New Member
I thought the Tempo had an MTX III trans, and only the SHO came with the MTX IV.
The original MTX (I) trans was a mazda design used in the ****** I believe.
gmail
Well-Known Member
its not really fair to say about 700 hp because no one knows how much power it can make
Brett
SHOs before HOs
Talk of a guy making 700+ hp on nitrous and boost before a spark plug came apart. Meaning this isnt the power limit its just the most power made to date.
The trans can handle way more than 400hp... It can handle as much as you can throw at it. It's the torque that kills it.
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revhardSHO
SHO Member
They can be built like any other motor. As far as the most horsepower, might be somewhere between 500-600 at the crank.
h949h
New Member
yea, i thought the SHo could fit with a t-5?? well theres gotta be a better RWD tranny then the 3.0 ranger....
zblackbeast
SHOtarded
It came form the probe gt's.. and if it could only handle 500 at the crank then jasons must be a freak then....
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