Hey guys.

Any of you ever consider re-drilling a steel bell housing to mount a T56, or ford transmission?

It seems to me like a logical approach to keeping your feet in a clutch explosion, and being able to run alternate manual transmissions?

-- Joe

 

so long as there is no issue with input shaft length an whatnot, and you are welding nuts or something else as reinforcement to the backside of the bell, i see no issues.

 

The only thing brightly off the top of my mind, is something like a T56 doesn't really have a bearing retainer so I'm not sure how to keep the crank line centered.

I guess a tremec or ford wouldn't be a problem.

I wonder what the input shaft length is of a LS1 version of a T56, vs like a saginaw or muncie, t5, etc.

-- Joe

 

The T56 is piloted by dowels instead of a bearing retainer.

Aftermarket T56 that uses an adapter plate to bolt to a Muncie/T5 bell is longest, then LS1, then LT1. Dodge is somewhere in between A/M and LS1 IIRC.

Thinking of going T56?

 

Not sure what I'm gonna swap it to. I'm thinking of going scatter shield because i've just seen too many references to clutch explosions and I like my feet. I've already had an eye injury in the shop, don't need to be an amputee as well.

I'd like an overdrive. I have an 833 with the mopar pattern with a dual pattern sbc bell, but aluminum. Thinking of selling it and running a scatter shield and my saginaw, until I find a good OD trans.

I need to find some sort of reference chart showing what the input shaft lengths are on various transmissions. I could even run a ford trans if I wanted to, just would need to turn the collar on the trans down to 4.75/4.86".

-- Joe