Wondering if anyone knows where i may find an input shaft and bellhousing for a v8 camaro/firebird w/ hydraulic clutch. I wanted to turn my v6 t-5 one into a v8 one and do a gear ratio swap. Anyone know any online places?

 

You also will need the countergear and a "kit".

The procedure for turning a 6-cyl transmission into a V8 one goes like this (assuming you start out in possession of the 6-cyl one):

1. Buy V8 transmission.
2. Tear down 2 transmissions.
3. Throw v6 internals into the trash.
4. Install V8 internals into the 6-cyl case, which is identical in every way.
5. Throw V8 case in the trash.

You can buy all the parts and pieces new to do it, and start in at step 3, but that will cost somewhere around $400 by the time you're done; and if this is the 1st manual transmission you've ever worked on, don't count on getting it right the first time.

Now... explain clearly how doing all that, is "better" somehow than just getting a V8 transmission, for about the same or less money, and just installing it, without having to risk taking it apart and getting it back together right.

Doesn't make any difference at all to the transmission what kind of actuator the clutch has, or vice-versa.

I don't know of anywhere to get a "new" bell housing; no matter what, that'll almost certainly come used, and you might as well just get that and the transmission it was bolted to all at the same time.