Thanx! For The Reply!
Nick
I tell you what tho
That looks like a great trans
and I would build an engine, and combo, just to work with it, if I had the money.
Check out the ratios;
3.49-2.16-1.40-1.00-.73 and the splits are
.62-.65-.71-.73
The splits are progressively tighter so that the faster you go, the less mphs the engine has to pull in each gear. That is the fast way down the road.
The only down side is, to not blow it up, because of it's torque rating. That probably means you will need to use a smaller engine. And that means.... generally...... a slower car. There are other work-arounds.
But think about a streeter, not a racer.
It's a two gear deal. If you can hit 60 at the top of second, you are done. With this trans, it would take 3.23s to hit 60 at about 5200. So a small cam is just right. Say it peaks at 5000.
You could run That with 3.23s, for a starter of 11.27 which is equivalent to 4.23s with a standard A833 low gear. and a 2.35 cruiser gear for 65~1900
and your 11.27 starter won't need a big engine, or a big cam.
Shifting into second at say 5700, the Rs would drop to 3500rpm/41 mph, so it's not a long pull in second, and you're not pushing a 100mph wind, so the engine ain't working all that hard!
So then, if you built your engine with a 5000rpm power peak, yet with a small enough cam to cruise at 1900rpm, you could have a dynomite little combo; then stick it in a sub-3000 pound chassis, and teach the big boys a thing or two about the right combo in the right chassis.
I mean think about it; millions of early Mustangs were doing just that.
Hyup if I could turn back the hands of time..........
Ok now, I'll tell you a secret; I once put a complete 318 top end and cam,onto a 340 short block. I called it my my big-bore teener........ cuz the only thing that made it a 340 was the bore size. And I stuffed that made-of-leftover-parts engine into my 65 Valiant, sub-3000 pound,station wagon, with nothing more than fenderwell headers. That was about 1975, and that combo lives on in my memory as probably my favorite combo ever. Man what a blast that car was.
So now you have a reason to stuff a 5000rpm cam into a low-compression 340, with just about any old heads, and a small 4bbl that nobody else wanted. Hey Ima thinking an old OFFY Dual-Port, and a junk Quadrajet.
Stuff the whole thing into a lightweight-A with an SG-8.25 and 3.21s, that also nobody wants, and this is stacking up to be a GREAT combo.
Hey waitaminute, I might be able to scare most of that recipe up from my junkpiles, hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Lessee where can I get a cheap mint-bodied early Valiant wagon, which I think are called Darts on your side of the 49th................
