Driving this car kinda set things in motion for my future swap. I had already been talking to a guy about selling my 6bt swap. He was in texas and had a 60 series as well. He also had a cherry om606 with less than 100k miles on it…plus a ton of new parts. Engine had basically been re-sealed, cleaned and painted. After a few months of back and forth we struck a deal. Guy drove the engine over to me from texas, and picked up the 6bt swap and headed back home. Very fortunate to work this deal out and wouldn’t have been able to do this deal without him.
Just pulled the engine and had it sitting on a pallet for the new owner. Part of the deal was to include the nv4500/splitcase. This made it a drop in swap for the next guy minus mounts and stuff.
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The new new arriving at the house in the wooden crate he built. These engines are really beautiful in my option. Big benefit is new intake manifold…as the stock ones are rather large and ugly.
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Another plus was the guy planned on using a nv4500 behind the 606, and already had the adapter I needed to bolt my transmission up.
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The next trick up my sleeve was this sexy thang. This is one of those situations where I got lucky as hell and found an amazing deal. Without finding this deal I would be trying to find another nv4500.
On Facebook I stumbled across a guy selling a tr4050 trans and all the swap parts needed to go with it. After talking to the guy, he told me this transmission was suppose to be used in Robert downy jrs truck (guy that plays iron man). They were doing a tv show on discovery channel, something like Downys classic rides or something like that. Anyways, they decided to go another direction and wanted to sell this swap, and I was the man for the job lol.
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For those that aren’t aware, the tremec tr4050 is basically a new, modern aluminum cased nv4500 rated for 600ftlbs of torque they are apparently just as strong as the old dinosaur they mimic.
They are quite pretty to look at, and should be for the $3800 price tag. That’s just for the transmission itself…then you have to add the extra on. You will need a bellhousing, that’s $400. Need a shifter setup which is another $100, then you will need a clutch and flywheel which could be $200-800 depending on what you go with…. The list goes on from there.
After totaling everything I bought from this guy, I paid $2700 with shipping to my door. All these parts are brand new, never been used. There is almost $6,000 worth of parts on that pallet which is absolutely crazy to me. By the time you add the trans, bellhousing, clutch, flywheel, slave cylinder setup, shifter…it definitely adds up.
But without this awesome deal I’d have to run a cheaper setup like a nv4500. Very fortunate to come across this and able to snag it.
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