Passon 5-speed

Number 18 reporting the latest update. The Trans and shifter are in shipment, UPS tracking numbers indicate it should arrive here this Tuesday evening (5/27/14).

I have to take the 1870 the transmission is destined for to our biggest local Mopar car show on June 1st, but my car is down due to a fuel pump problem that left me stranded on the freeway on-ramp for 50 minutes a few weeks ago. I sent the pump in to be re-built, and I'm expecting it back from Product Engineering Tuesday of next week.

I still need to install a fresh set of plugs and a new cap and rotor this weekend for this season. The pump re-install should only take about 30 minutes, and I'll be back on the road for the Mopar Alley Show in Cupertino, CA at De Anza College - June 1st. Remember its NOT at Ohlone College this year!!!

The following weekend, I'll pull the stock numbers trans from the 1970, remove the scatter shield and Street Twin clutch, box the clutch and flywheel up to ship back to McLeod to be gone through and pull the Dana so I can take it down to the rear end shop and have them swap out the 3.54's and install the Spicer 3.73's. A few weeks later, I'll be breaking everything in, and trying to write up a decent post on the install and the driving impressions the gear and trans change make.

Sometime in between and beyond all that "work", I've got to finish building a stroker 408 for my '68 Barracuda convertible, retrofitting a built-up 200R4 to fit in the car and swapping in 3.91's in place of the 3.23's I'm currently running with a 727 and a tired EFI'd 5.9 Magnum.

I love having good projects to keep me deep in this hobby and doing what I have always dreamed of doing with my Mopars. I've been waiting 30 + years to do this kind of stuff.