If you could mate any legendary engine with any legendary transmission, which engine and transmission would you mate AND WHY?!
What makes that engine and that transmission so special compared to the rest of the bunch?
Chevy 350 small block + turbo-hydramatic. Variations on that were in production for decades, for good reason. Now, any car show or jeep rally is gonna have somebody running that setup.
A match made in Heaven:
Engine: 4.8 L NA V10 1LR-GUE (from the Lexus LFA) - one of the best sounding and engineered engines on the planet; will never see one of these ever again from Lexus
Transmission: Porsche Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (PDK) dual-clutch transmission - one of the best and well-engineered performance transmissions in the world and the benchmark for all other performance tranmissions. It delivers a smooth, lightning-fast shift - nothing else like it.
(@Mod_Man what do you think about that combo?)
After learning about the Lexus LFA engine, that match up seems like a dream come true.
Engine: 4.8 L NA V10 1LR-GUE (from the Lexus LFA) - one of the best sounding and engineered engines on the planet; will never see one of these ever again from Lexus
Transmission: Tremec 6-speed Manual TR3160 (like to row my own gears, also a good/stout transmission - excellent shifts)
Now....you KNOW they don't make a manual that can get the most out of that engine. It revs too fast. That said.....would be fun regardless. {black}:laughingoutloud:
It’s true, I was looking at a hypothetical marriage. Fact is you have to engineer the whole vehicle to work in harmony with each other. The Lexus LFA in 2012 set the world record for production engine fastest rev to redline (which for that engine was 9,000 rpm) in 0.6 seconds. My poor Tremec won’t be able to keep up (although it had been used in the 2015-2020 Shelby GT350 whose redline was 8,250 rpm).
Whoa. That is a pretty crazy engine. And a V10?! Weird. I had no idea that existed and just looked it up. This is why this site is so amazing, so much knowledge.
How about a combination that was actually sold for years - the Chrysler Slant-Six engine combined with 3-speed Torqueflite transmission. Both legendary for being near indestructible, usually the rest of the car would fall apart with the engine and trans still plugging away. Pulling a Slant-Six or Torqueflite from a junkyard car was not much of a gamble back in the day.
I'll take it!