ZF Trans swap

["dmcjohn" <john.dore@xxxx>]

Hi lads,
(To the guys who do engine swaps mainly!)
I had a good look at an old DeTomaso Pantera a few days ago, and was 
wondering if anyone thought the manual transmission it uses, which is 
a ZF transaxel, would be a good idea if you were going to do an 
engine conversion to a V-8? I'm sure its a lot stronger than a 
DeLorean trans, and you can get adapters to fit it to most American V-
8 engines pretty easily. It looked to me like it was a similar size, 
what would need to be considered before attempting something like 
this? Someday my DeLorean will have a SS chassis, with a v8, and a 
different manual trans, I hear the guy with the ford V-8 at Memphis 
is having transmission trouble? Also, what about the Porsche 911 
transmission? I love my DeLorean the way it is at the moment, but I 
would like a bit more power!
When DeLorean Houston come out with their stage 2 enine, are they 
beefing up the trans in any way? Seems like with 250 bhp they might 
be approaching the self destruct point of the original trans? If I 
was sure their system could operate with the original trans, I would 
probably settle for the Stage 2 engine instead of a conversion, as it 
would be a lot easier...
Thanks,
John