found 3 T-45 transmissions...
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11-09-2009, 12:48 PM
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found 3 T-45 transmissions...
...in Columbus for sale, all under 100K miles, about 90K, my transmission is up to 150K. they are all selling the transmissions for 400 bucks. i went through LRS and Jegs, and i can get a Heavy-Duty Clutch kit (10.5" diameter), steel Flywheel (10.5" diameter, 164 tooth, 6 bolt pattern), BBK adjustable clutch cable and quadrant, aluminum driveshaft, a head changing kit, 2 Magnaflow magnapack mufflers for just under 1400 bucks, including the price of the transmission itself. most of these parts are from Ford Racing. i can install all of these at home, my neighbor is a good gearhead, and has all the tools to work on them, and to install my heads.
as far as the heads go, the engine will still work with a straight swap without tune, you just can't floor it, am i right? driving normally with no more than half throttle without worrying about the piston hitting the valve, with the proper timing, correct? ( i would be checking about replacement timing chains because the ones i have are 150K miles. i might just buy a bearing kit and rebuild the engine while the transmission is out for the hell of it, after i fix my mazda.) i would have a budget of 3500 - 4000 bucks from my national guard bonus for everything, mazda including (the mazda comes first because that would be my DD).
so how about it, good deal? any brand reccommendations on the quadrant and clutch cables?
EDIT: http://www.jegs.com/i/Edelbrock/350/2839/10002/-1
considering an EFI to Carbeurator conversion. would be very unique. the whole kit is there on the link. would be a lot more HP gain over the stock PI intake manifold.
i am so excited i am actually able to work on my car now!
can't wait to put the exhaust together, i have an offroad-X pipe waiting to be installed, and gonna put in a pair of Magnaflow magnapack mufflers.
as far as the heads go, the engine will still work with a straight swap without tune, you just can't floor it, am i right? driving normally with no more than half throttle without worrying about the piston hitting the valve, with the proper timing, correct? ( i would be checking about replacement timing chains because the ones i have are 150K miles. i might just buy a bearing kit and rebuild the engine while the transmission is out for the hell of it, after i fix my mazda.) i would have a budget of 3500 - 4000 bucks from my national guard bonus for everything, mazda including (the mazda comes first because that would be my DD).
so how about it, good deal? any brand reccommendations on the quadrant and clutch cables?
EDIT: http://www.jegs.com/i/Edelbrock/350/2839/10002/-1
considering an EFI to Carbeurator conversion. would be very unique. the whole kit is there on the link. would be a lot more HP gain over the stock PI intake manifold.
i am so excited i am actually able to work on my car now!
can't wait to put the exhaust together, i have an offroad-X pipe waiting to be installed, and gonna put in a pair of Magnaflow magnapack mufflers.
Last edited by Leonide; 11-09-2009 at 01:22 PM.
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11-11-2009, 03:53 PM
Unless you run bigger cams and long tubes that carb setup isn't gonna make more power. You need more rpms and flow to really get gains from it.
You can run the PI parts if you are easy on the throttle but it must be tuned with the extra compression its running and f'ed up a/f ratio.
You can run the PI parts if you are easy on the throttle but it must be tuned with the extra compression its running and f'ed up a/f ratio.
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