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I have swapped input shafts between a 6cyl Camaro box and a 4 cyl Ford box...both had a 4.03 1st and had the same tooth count/pitch/dia on the...
The shackle plates are 1/4". I've been building these solid axle TA conversions for years, to replace the IRS in customer '86-'91 Maxda RX-7's....
The T/A's i make are used on cars that have the rear located by links (not leafs), so we have very little fore/aft movement of the linkage as the...
I got to sit in the original when it was in the showroom at a Buick dealer (Romer & Ruble?) in Santa Maria somewhere around 1966 (my uncle worked...
If ya gotta add weight to stick a rwd car, adding it as far back as possible will get you the most weight transfer for the least amount of added...
Not fenderwells but... Here's the headers and dumps on my OT car. I made some short 3" extensions that bolt on when the plates are removed, they...
Another time i'm going to work w/ the Chevelle's headers open and see a state trooper coming in the opposite direction. I let off the throttle and...
I'm aware of 5 different gearsets used in the Saginaw 4spd... No grooves= 19 tooth input, 2.84 low, 2.01 2nd, 1.35 3rd, (all had 1:1 4th) One...
Back in '75, I had a '65 Chevelle w/ a tunnelram and fenderwell headers, drove it to highschool everyday w/ open headers. One day I got a written...
Subscribing... I lived in Nipomo back in the '60/70s, As a kid I spent a lot of time at the JayCees track in Santa Maria and also at Santa Maria...
I've got an SROD that i'm thinking of installing non-overdrive gears and putting a jeep shift tower onto...basically turning it into an old school...
IMO, doing away with traction compounds would be a step in the right direction...
I built/drove a couple reverse rotation dirt late models back in the '80s, ran real good when the track was slick. You had to drive it different...
In my own search for a small body 4.3 V6 dist for a carb that has vac advance, i came across this old thread. I recently found a solution from a...
Your design looks kinda like a ladder bar setup, but I see it's function as drawn to be pure torque arm. I like it. Adding springs or rubber...
Here's an extreme version of that, i use it on OT cars...I call it a torque arm. Shackle plates that go around the driveshaft, big rubber pucks...
I put a 3/8" thick Sprint Car motor plate on my engine, so my pulleys didn't line up either. Bought the speedway spacers, but didn't like them...
Mid '70s big Chilton manuals had good pictures and proceedures, probably much of it taken from factory manuals. Here in the states, you can find...
I've got tons of hi rpm drag radial clutch drops on mine, but my main case started out as a truck version that originally had 5 bolts holding it...
When the gears are actually turning on the mainshaft, they are not transferring the power. When the power is going thru an individual forward...
http://www.chevytrucks.org/tech/overdrive.htm
My experience does not see the thinner oil having much practical effect on the Saginaw's 1/2/3 gear bearings, or their ability to carry load. The...
My recomendation is Redline MTL Oil approved for GL-4 is ok, but GL-5 approved hypoid oil that is also backwardly compatible w/ GL-4 is not...
Use the wrong oil in them and they won't shift. If it's too slick, the synchros won't be able to slow down the next gear very quick, and it will...
I've got a lite street/strip car w/ a heavily abused 3.50 Saginaw. Drag radials, 3.73 gears, and a ceramic disc. The Sag held up fine in stock...
I was running my dirt late model at Cottage Grove OR in '87 or '88, made my way thru the consy into the 100 lap main. About half way thru the main...
I've been thinking of a possible rule structure for local street driven cars that allows for some of the diversity you get with street driven...
It really doesn't choke it that much, but most people think it would. My focus is hooking up on really poor tracks (street racing) with a manual...
I have a car that runs a carter 625 on a performer rpm. I keep the carter because its easier to get races when i tell them it's got a flat top 350...
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