Your question requires a bit of clarification.
No payment up front - I just paid when a transmission was ready. I then received it a couple of weeks after paying for it.
Good clarification Kern. In my case, I have a bench seat car with a factory 4 speed, so I really didn't want to modify the transmission tunnel. Per my understanding, there is no adapter for any Tremec transmission that will locate the shifter in the stock location - the tunnel needs modification.
What is the most cost effective option? I'm running 391's and would love a affordable overdrive
If you can find a cheap 833od, and a cheap 833, you put the od gears in the iron case. I did that for my GTX with a 440, I was lucky to get them cheap and have probably $530 in mine.
So I've seen many conflicting answers about whether or not the tunnel has to be modified in this string of posts. I have a factory 4-speed. So is the final official answer that my stock shifter location would have to change. Neither American Powertrain or Silver Sport has a solution that would put the shifter in my stock location? Is that correct?
Yup... That can work but note that 833OD has some strange gears including a 3.1 1st gear. Plus being a 23 spline behind a healthy 440 may be too much. My recommendation would be to get the OD gears from Passon, they are 18 spline, much stronger and better gear ratios..
Oh I know, the gear spread is awful. I wish I could afford Passons, or a 5 speed. But for now my cheap transmission will do fine.
Last year I installed a Passon OD and am very satisfied with it..Oh I know, the gear spread is awful. I wish I could afford Passons, or a 5 speed. But for now my cheap transmission will do fine.
Just make sure you get a new gasket set, cheeping out, and being in a bit of a time crunch, I thought I could get away with silicone and reusing the gaskets.
I spoke w American Powertrain today and they confirmed this. On a 4 speed car, cover the existing hole, add new one.
This is how it looks in a 1970 Charger.
I really don't know. I know that everything lines up if you use an auto console, but the manual console might not sit in the car the same way. The auto console does not sit exactly in the center of the car, it's actually a little toward the driver.
Aligning a QT bellhousing is a piece of cake. Yeah it’s a PITA waiting on your offset dials but there’s nothing to it. As with any starter just make sure you get it shimmed right before you bolt your headers on.
Well since the QT bell I was working on was off by more than .120 and they don't sell dowels with that much offset I had to machine dowels to solve the problem... Then the mounting holes had to be oblong so the bolts would go in their holes...
Well when I first started dealing with these QT bell-housings I also came up with big numbers like you. You’re always supposed to check if your bellhousing is true. I have found mother mopar is way off not only on the bellhousing but these 50 year old blocks also but a lot of this was caused by thick and thin paint. Not all the blocks or some bell housings are the same but once I started grinding all of the paint down to bare metal on the block, grinding down the cam bolts and the powder coat on the QT bellhousing I haven’t ran in to another issue. Stick with what works for you but this is what works for me.
