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Thanks AJ, great info there. I don't have the knowledge but with an A500 are you talking small block? My RB 500 would be too much for it ? From years back I thought they can't take the abuse ? IDK just asking.
Sorry, not trying to Hyjack just looking for info. Thanks
Oh yes, they can be adapted to mount to a BB. And built to handle pretty good power.
If you need more, the A518 is based off the 727 guts with the same overdrive unit. The BB will be fine with the standard ratios of 2.45-1.45-1.00-.69od.
If I had an A500, (2.74-1.54-1.00-.69od), and was 30 years younger, and not expecting Armageddon in the next few years;
I would try to figure out how to use that .69od unit as a splitter. The ratios would be;
2.74-1.89-1.54- 1.06/1.00-.69. with splits of .69- .81-.69-skip direct and straight to 3rd/od =.65; this being a 6-speed auto, driven as a 5-speed; because of the 1.06/1.00, 4/5 gear situation.
I'd install that behind a 318 or possibly a 340, and run a 318-type cam, Daymn that would haul.
I would gear it for 65= about 1850, so maybe 3.23s out back. The roadgears would be
8.85-6.11-4.97-3.42-2.28, for 65=1845 in loc-up. I would run just enough stall to waste the tires at WOT, all thru first gear, and with a spreadbore, and Ima gonna try an old Dual-Port intake that I bought of a fellow FABO member, and that still sits on the shelf, waiting for a home..
The convertor at Zero mph, might have a ratio of 1.8, and at WOT, this would diminish progressively as roadspeed increased, and increase progressively as torque increased. Then the loc-up would kill the slip for cruising. The road gears might look like;
15.93 to 10.62-7.03-5.47-3.70-2.46/2.28 that will act like 6 gears plus loc-up
Of course as a streeter, at WOT, I gotta shut down at around 65 so , I'd probably only use up to 5.47 ratio, in the which; 5000=72 mph. In other words; Second-over will only rarely be used.
5.47 is a pretty good gear for trapping in the Eighth. But
there is no good ratio here for the Quarter.
Actually, if I was also rich, I would use a 273 and turbo it.
So many ideas, so little time.
