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8 Oct
05 Drive Shaft Safety loop
I purchased
a driveshaft loop on eBay for 10 bucks and modified it to
fit.
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| 29 Mar 06
- Transmission
The T5 transmission ready to be shipped to
Gordon Levy for
rebuild. Its a six cylinder model, which is not stout enough
for a high power V8. When it comes back, it should be able
to hand anything the 302 can throw at it -- and only 70
pounds or so vice 120 for a Tremec. My goal is to keep the
car as light as reasonably possible -- hopefully 2100 lbs
or under.
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21 May 06 -
Transmission is Back!
I still have to purchase a new
bell housing and fork, the Racing T5 uses the shorter Fox
style input shaft and associated bell housing. The trans
uses case hardened gears and has a revised 2:95-1 first
gear -- making 1st gear more usable with the 3.73 differential
gears.
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| If all of the math
is correct, calculated top speed is 218 MPH at 6500
RPM (yeah right) 60 MPH should give 1788 RPM in
5th. The gear ratios are
2.95, 1.94, 1.34, 1.00,
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| Meanwhile, I
test fit the RCI universal ballistic blanket and other parts.
I was hoping to get away with a less expensive and
lighter aluminum Fox bell housing
vice the heavy steel Ford Racing or Lakewood models. It
looks like the blanket will work. |
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| A $99 Steeda
Sport shifter completes the combination. The shift stops
still need to be set on it. No need for the more expensive
Tri-Ax shifter, the car will see very limited drag strip
use. |
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| 29 May 06
- Clutch Here is
the Zoom Kevlar
HP48-1
clutch. It was recommended
to me by Gordon Levy.
I had to ream the locating holes a little to get it to fit
over the Fidanza flywheel dowels.
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| The Fox clutch
fork at the top is quite a bit smaller than the SN95.
So is the bell housing; the blanket now wraps completely
around it, where as before the first strap was too short.
The blanket is not tight against the fork, there is plenty
of slack to allow the clutch to operate. All the
frame mods
I did so the SN95 bellhousing would clear the frame
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ID your Bell Housing
The SN95 housing has
"5.0" cast into it in large numbers on the top, while there
are no markings on the FOX units. The FOX housing are physically
smaller than the SN95 bell housings.
The other difference
is the transmission input shaft for the two housings. The
Fox trans has a shorter input shaft and the SN95 has a longer
one. If you try to use a SN95 trans on FOX bell housing
it will not seat all the way against the bell housing. If
you use a fox trans on a SN95 bell housing, the shorter
input shaft will not go into the pilot bearing.
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| 30 May 06
- Driveshaft |
| The trick to
getting the IRS driveshaft installed is to remove the trans
mount bolts and jack the trans tail shaft up until the splines
align. It installs from the top. |
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| Here's a drawing
of my measurements, I did not use the measurements
in the FFR manual.. |
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| The shop that
shortened and balanced the driveshaft recommended
non-greaseable U-joints. Supposedly they are a little stronger
because they do not have the grease cavity. |
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parking brake mechanism
hit the A shaped transmission mount -- of all things. Its
hard to tell in the photo, but it hangs down by about an
1/8 or so. I took it apart and milled a little off the bottom
side of all the parts and rounded the corners. |
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