I just picked up an 84 Camaro minus the 5 speed, clutch, and hydraulics. How difficult is it to utilize a 70's vintage 4-speed in this car(since I have several). Is the bell housing a special for the slave unit mount? I don't now since mine are missing.

 

for me it'd be more trouble than it's worth. you'd have to make a few brackets and such. i believe at one time i saw a kit for using a hydrolic clutch set up with a muncie but i can't remember where, or if i really did. considering what good muncies sell for it'd go a long way towards paying for something else that would bolt up easier.

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The clutch that comes in the car will work fine with the Muncie, as long as the trans has the 26-spline input shaft. If it doesn't you'd need a clutch disc with a 10-spline hub. On the other hand, if your Muncie has a 26-spline clutch gear spline, then it also has the large output shaft; so you'd have to have a special driveshaft made.

The 2 biggest problems would be the torque arm mount, and a shifter. In our cars the bell housing is rotated, it cannot be "straight" because if it was, the clutch fork would go right through the driver's right foot. That rules out any kind of shifter that has ever been made for a Muncie.

If you have a Warner, there's a small glimmer of hope. They didn't use the T-5 until 83. Most 82 cars came with Saginaw POSs, but a few (very few!) of them came with T-10s. So there is, or at least was at one time, a Hurst shifter available for a T-10 in our cars. You'd still have to deal with the torque arm, clutch spline, and driveshaft issues, unless you actually have an 82 T-10.

All of these problems can be solved but will cost $$$$ and/or require some degree of butchering the car. IMHO it's not a good swap for anything but a race car, where things like that don't matter so much.

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