nando would know

[matt0300]

Hey nando do u know the Max hp that the tcase can handle? And any good after market front drive shafts?

[Vince30]

Is this real life?

[dashboardmonkey]

more than an M20 can make...

[matt0300]

Haha yea but I'm getting it set up for Turbo I mean its just a Ford tcase it can't handle to much

[325ix]

What do you mean it is just a Ford t-case? The transfer case can handle upwards of 600 hp if you aren't abusing it with burnouts and 6000rpm clutch drops. Even then, it is the spider gears in the diff that fail first from what I have seen.

[matt0300]

The awd system on the IX is off of a Ford BMW got lazy

[dashboardmonkey]

I thought they were made by GM

[nando]

The awd system on the IX is off of a Ford BMW got lazy

huh?

they are made by ZF.. not Ford. not GM. :loco:

there's not really a such thing as a horsepower limit, in any case. There could possibly be a torque limit, but it's far more than most people put through it. Nobody has ever actually tested it anyway, but there are plenty of cars making 300-500 and more.

[325ix]

huh?

they are made by ZF.. not Ford. not GM. :loco:

there's not really a such thing as a horsepower limit, in any case. There could possibly be a torque limit, but it's far more than most people put through it. Nobody has ever actually tested it anyway, but there are plenty of cars making 300-500 and more.

Thats what I thought. I have read that the way BMW developed this system was completely new at the time, not that it was taken from some other car manufacturer.

Oh and...

http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=180631&highlight=ix

[nando]

yeah, GM and Ford have never had an AWD system anything like the ix.. even their new stuff is just FWD volvo parts with power sent to the rear for when a soccer mom is about to skid into bus stop.

[325ix]

yeah, GM and Ford have never had an AWD system anything like the ix.. even their new stuff is just FWD volvo parts with power sent to the rear for when a soccer mom is about to skid into bus stop.

I was gonna say that. From what I have read, the way BMW designed the system was quite revolutionary for that time and gave a more rwd feel to the car than any other awd system had. Where the euro cossie Escorts AWD or RWD?

[Ryann]

yeah, GM and Ford have never had an AWD system anything like the ix.

I'm fairly certain the AWD system in the IX was originally designed for a European Ford product and was adapted to the e30 platform by BMW.

edit: here's the book I read it in.

[nando]

the *type* of AWD system the ix uses was developed by Ferguson in the 1960s. The system used in the ix has nothing to do with any Ford, and was never adapted from any Ford product. There's no other AWD car with the same transfercase. So I don't know what you are talking about..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferguson_Research_Ltd.

the only AWD ford built in the ix's time was a rally car, and it wasn't made until after ix development had already started.

[Ryann]

^The book even specifies which model it came out of. I'd look it up but I loaned the book to someone and never got it back.

The book could also be full of shit, idk.

[nando]

it "came" from the "ferguson formula", not a Ford, and like I said the transfercase is unique to the ix and built by ZF. If there were a mass produced Ford with the same transfercase I'm sure parts availability would be a bit better, but since no mass produced AWD car from Ford existed in the early 1980s..