Learn Me: Oldsmobile Silhouette

In reply to Alan Cesar:

Yeah, shoving an identical powerplant in the back sounds easiest, especially with the electronic 4T65E, you could run both on one computer to keep everything synchronized.

Kenny_McCormic wrote: In reply to Alan Cesar: Yeah, shoving an identical powerplant in the back sounds easiest, especially with the electronic 4T65E, you could run both on one computer to keep everything synchronized.

now that is ingenious. run both electronic trans off the same pcm so they shift at the same time. i am not sure why i never thought of that.

Streetwiseguy wrote:

Slippery wrote: Oh man, I remember when these were cool.

No, no you don't. If you think you do, I'm afraid you were left out of the joke.

if you're at a poker table and don't know who the sucker is, it's you.

I heard they are great if like to "sit up high and look around."

Alan, if you are actually considering this—I'm in.

The engine should share parts with my Trooper. I have a spare....

Only time I sat in one was during a pop-up thunderstorm during a junkyard trip a few years back. All I remember was that the dashboard was about a mile deep and I felt like I was in a Galaxy Class starship Shuttlecraft that crash landed in an alien scrapyard during an Ion storm.

A handicapped tech that I used to work with in my brief stint at a Chevy dealership back in 2001 had a later Pontiac Montana minivan that he was shoving a built 3800 SC into after hours. He said that he was determined to go fast despite his disabilities, and being a GM guy, this was one of his only options. I want to say it had AWD too! I always thought that was pretty cool.

Back in the late 80s we went up to GM to pick up some donated engines, we got a tour of one of the buildings were they were testing the dustbusters. I thought they looked like shuttles, not Star Trek, but NASA, especially with the white/black color scheme.

I was 8 or 9, no one believed me until they started showing up on the streets.

We had a Pontiac transport that we put 150K miles on. It was running great right until it slammed into a Park Avenue. They aren't bad. If you do one you must paint it black, attach a box to the rear in roughly the shape of a handle. Paint black and decker on the side and you've got a dustbuster.

Don't hit anything with it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDQrPnAhSmI

slefain wrote: Don't hit anything with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDQrPnAhSmI

Not the same van being discussed here, (that is the newer version) so it probably would do worse

radio station I worked for had one as a "remote" vehicle. We would load in a huge "bounce" cushion into the back of it and set it up place for the kids to play in on location.

I remember you could inch forward on somebody at a light just until the back of the car disappeared out of sight at the edge of the windsheild.. then you stopped or you would hit..