someone school me on my A833 for my swap Please

jeremy2146 said

Ok AJ/Forms. I have a new perspective on what I want to setup. I will probably swap in a different 833 after I get it together, right off the bat I will only be running a 318, which is in the car now, but my question in if I bought the overdrive bellhousing, with the 5.125" hole, can I use that on the smaller bearing faced 833's with a spacer ring? Ive seen some pictures showing a ring to fill the gap for the smaller inputs on a larger opening of the bellhousing.

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So you want to later use the bell housing with the larger hole with a transmission that has a smaller bearing retainer? Yes, there's a ring that can be pressed in to do that.

Brewer's Performance carries that ring; as well as Passons Performance. At least I'm pretty sure they do. Give either of them a call to double check.

I totally see what you want to do. You don't want to waste the investment of the bell housing and have to buy another bell housing. You want to convert it from big to small instead of buying a replacement bell housing. Makes sense to me.

You also might want to talk to Jamie Passons at Passon Performance and see what he can do with that O/D unit as far as strengthening, but it it may be true that a stroker just might kill it. It will probably be great with that 318 though.