Pinion Angle/Tailshaft Bushing

Yeah that is what I kindof suspected.
I once put a 340 cam and Xheads into/onto an otherwise stock 73 teener. Yeah with 2.76s that was a bit of a disaster. It had great passing power on the hiway, but out of the gate,To say it had"slightly less low end torque" would be too kind. It flat out sucked. The addition of a 2800TC improved things a bit. But when the 4.10s went in well, that was the magic. I won't ever put a 340 cam etc onto an 8/1 teener again.
>When that Dart died, I pulled the powertrain and junked the rusted hulk, which today would still fetch good coin. But in the late 80s who could have known.....
>So fast forward 15/20 years or so, and in 2000 I un-mothballed that same engine.I yanked the 340 stuff in favor of the teener equivalents. I freshened up the rings etc. and plopped it into my FormulaS clone as a winter engine.( I used to pull the 367 every September and go thru it in the snowy season). Some winters the teener had an auto, and some it had a stick. Sometimes a 2.66 low and sometimes a 3.09od and sometimes a 3.09od and a GVOD for a double od. One year it had that 2800TC and 3.55s . Of course it had the TTIs on it and a small-port intake with a TQ on it. It was still the 8point something factory compression.And I put some 360valve springs in it, (or 340, not sure), with the 273 rocker gear. I still have this engine.
>Well I'll tell you, that lil teener surprised the dickens outta me.Best lil teener I ever had. It was so sweet, I just hadda mess with it. Every May I pulled it out and stuck the freshened 367 back in. So then,I would contemplate the next winters combo.
>One winter,I put an A999 in it with the wide ratios and a semi-auto shift kit in it, that allows both auto mode and full manual. And then, Then, I put 2.76s in it.Now if you have never heard a mellow 4 barrel teener running WOT, in high gear, from 20mph to 65 mph, screaming obscenities at me through full-length dual 3 incher exhaust and Dynomaxers, Man; I can't tell you how sweet that sounds. That is just one long pull at about one continuous rpm!
I used to nail it from a stop, get her into 3rd as fast as she would take full throttle and then, let that TQ moan, for what seemed like forever.65mph was still near 2800.Hyup, that brings me a huge smile just remembering it. The starter gear with the A999 was 7.56, and with a 2800TC, and with the teener top-end back on, she had plenty enough giddy-up for a winter motor.That combo pulled about 75/80 mph still at 2800ish,before the Rs started to climb,lol.
>I mean imagine the dyno-operator pulling the lever, flat-footing it,and keeping the Rs at 2800 for about 14 seconds,lol. That poor teener! I used to torture it so bad.
>One winter I had the od/GVOD combo in it with 4.30s.That teener pulled the od ratios all by themselves, but I had set the GVOD up as a splitter. The starter gear was 13.29, and double OD was 2.45. Well set up like this, the teener hits shift-rpm real quick. I used to shift it at 5000; sometimes 5500, just because.
First topped out at about 30mph,and 1st-over at 39. Second was 56, and 2nd-od was 72. Third was 94,and 3rd-od was 120. But I rarely went past 72@5500; That was 4 ratios, with just one tug on the stick, and two electric fast-as-lightning splits........ 65mph was a tic under 2000,lol.
I gotta tell you, a teener with 4.30s, and split-shifting, is pretty neat.
Those winter combos were not fast. Nor quick. But it/they were hands down,the funnest I ever had. They were not about being fast or quick. They were just about being mellow, and having fun.
I stopped doing that after the 5th winter or so. The 367 was no longer having issues, that I was catching in the nick of time,and she was in her final iteration. I was no longer broke; the kids were on their own, and doing well. I bought a second car, and no longer needed the S for winter. Hallelujah, no more swapping powertrains.
I still miss that teener now and then.............
But 93 in the 1/8 is funner, oh yeah