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Its not like there are THAT many mods for the GXP. Even if they were abused every day that isnt too thrilling to know that the 65 is still pretty much unreliable. GM had a test drive of the GXP that alot of clubgp members and a couple vendors were allowed to go. IIRC it was Charles that said that GM told them to beat the ever loving shit out of the car. Its made to last. Obviously the tranny cannot take the heat.
Early or not, its still a 65. Even built 65s need refreshing and such otherwise they will eventually fail as well.
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I was one of the guys who was invited to the GXP event in arizona. The GM guys told us to beat the hell out of the cars, and we did. The two big things I remember was that when we would get back to the pit, there was a lot of burnt up clutch smell coming from under the hood, and there were a few places in the road course where the tranny would starve itself of fluid. Just about everyone there said it needed a deeper pan with some baffles in it.
The GM guys did say that the internals were different, and that we couldn't brake it. [/b][/quote]
the 65 is still the little bastard...besides the 80e has a dry sump setup that virtually eliminates air in the fluid and resulting cavitation and line pressure drops
i still think that for the $ you can dump into a 65ehd you could drop in a stock used 80e that would handle the power easily...and leave some $ in your pocket
i worked on a 97 caddy (N* and 80e) back at harry's that the guy would beat the piss out of, one tire fire in winter, burning rubber in summer, this guy was hard on his car let me tell you, the only thing i ever did to the 80e was one trans service at 110k (100k PMplugs wires WP etc) the fluid was pretty damn good for 100+k fluid and the beating it took on daily basis, i'll tell ya that much
put more work into that cars brakes suspension engine and wiring than i ever did the trans
he sold it in 01 or 02 at just under 200k with the original trans, i know we sold it off our lot at harry's
my whole point is that built SBC guys can build a 6k$ th350 to handle their power when plenty of others do just as well with a 1500-3000$ th400
same point i'm trying to make with the 65ehd and the 80e, start bigger spend less....
to hell with the weight... overkill or roadkill? which do you choose?
but i do see ya'll 65ehd-ers points but we shouldnt be having to dump tons of $ into a trans to handle 350hp...i'll tell ya this, we will use a 65ehd in amanda's 01 GA GT when it gets it's L67...at least it's a lighter car and should hold up well enough...but if it blows chunks...in goes an 80e :lolsign:
