Jimbo1367

Glad to see you ragging Mark back. LOL

frojoe

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Well he doesn't change his car nearly as much as I keep doing.. except for rotors and tires. When his was down for control arm replacement I putted us around in mine, then took mine off the road to do power steering pump and accessroy drive stuff.. and of course that means his is back on the road...

Jacey Tarter

Okay i have a 77 camaro with no Eng or Trans. Im looking to put a LS1 and T56
but i need to know what conversion kits there are and how the wiring works
thank you

frojoe

iTrader: (10)

That's an extremely complex question for such a short sentence. I think anyone here would recommend you try the search function first.. lots of information out there and no single simple answer....

Marktainium

I have been neglecting things here... changing tires every 1000 miles isn't that much fun to post about... I do have new control arms now though, pics to come...gonna do some nifty brake ducts soon...and yes, I did ride shotgun in Joe's Nova! the best part of that was my drivers license was quite safe.

Marktainium

Well, transmission #2 is toast. Fried the input shaft. super overheated the gear. So lesson to be learned is, they say its rated to 700lb. ft. That may be true on a dyno, but in the real world the fluid goes to the back of the case, the front goes dry, and boom! Gear goes to ****. It started to whine within 500 miles, now it's at 3000 and I can't drive it anymore. Next time it's gear sprayer under all boost conditions.

frojoe

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My input would be that you got shafted, but that's just my spin on things, I don't mean to whine or anything. But seriously, get your **** in gear finally!

Bowtie316

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What a grind. Do you think it is the longer pulls in third or fourth gear that does it or can it be hurt in first and second as well?

Marktainium

It's the extended high torque pulls that kill the input shaft gear and meshing driven gear on the cluster shaft. Physically, these 2 gears are the farthest ones forward. They are under load in every gear except for 4th, where the input shaft and output shaft are locked together. Hence 1:1 ratio. The new case has a plug which lines up perfectly with the input shaft gear which will now have a lubrication jet installed to spray oil on that gear whenever I am under boost, or, when the pump is on full time. (Race mode).
Replacement parts are not available yet. The input shaft is $295, the cluster is $550 plus a 25% handling fee and 30 days to get it, or at least that's what my local tremec dealer told me.

1981TA

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Let us know how much... "fun" it is to put the jets + pump in. I'm considering something similar.

Jimbo1367

25% handling fee? WTF?

trevmust

Anyone have suggestions for a roll bar, I wanna get the ridetech one but my buddies say I should just get a $250usd weld together kit. The ridetech one is bolt together but 4100 the way I want it optioned...

Marktainium

I bought a bender and a pipe notcher from KMS tools and built my own. The pre bent low cost ones take up more room in the car than I wanted to use. I wanted as non-intrusive as possible and still functional. If it's not something you can do yourself, I know a guy.

Marktainium

It's so cold...

Jimbo1367

You finally post, and that's all you say. LOL.

frojoe

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It's not that bad out....

frojoe

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Back in May, Mark and I towed his car ~4hrs away to a hillclimb competition on Knox Mountain in Kelowna, BC. Check out the crazy bumper-cam vid below!