As crazy as this drives me?

Can we modify the phrase “This drives me crazy....” and make it “As crazy as this drives me...” in the same way that “This makes me mad...” can be modified to become “As mad as this makes me...”?

Used in a sentence: “So now we’re stuck in the middle of a forest. As crazy as this drives me, we got to start building a shelter.”

Solution 1:

Can we modify the phrase “This drives me crazy....” and make it “As crazy as this drives me...”

It is not modifying – it is “changing”. And when you change something, the meaning changes.

“As crazy as this drives me...” => Although this drives me crazy...