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Exactly on the shifting! I barely use the clutch. I just touch it a little to make it slip, mostly to smooth things out. The heavy LS7 clutch makes things more clunky. A lighter weight flywheel and clutch assembly would be more optimal.

It has helical cut gears, but at a reduced angle, hence the gear noise. Sort of the difference between a Muncie M21 and M22. Us OGs (old geezers) know what that means...LOL

Andrew

Michael Yount

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Exactly. I used to have one in my GTO.

Andrew

truckdoug

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hehe i used to have an m21 in my '64 442 that I daily drove when I lived in san francisco. that was probably my peak 2 years of eye, hand and foot coordination

gofastwclass

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I like the whine of the gears, it reminds me of my old Muncie. My Muncie was great fun when the linkage wasn't fouled up.

Do you have an aversion to using first gear?

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Another great reason to have line lock...LOL

With 4.33 gears, first gear is kind of pointless for just driving around town.

Andrew

Michael Yount

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HUGE impression made on me as a young teenager circa 1970 - a friend of my older brother's had a 1969 SS Chevelle - 396/375HP with the rock crusher trans and 4.10 gears. My first ride in that was in the back seat - brother and his buddy in the front. The sights, sounds and smells of banging off 3 shifts at high rpm in that big block were memorable!

Rick Dorion

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Sigh - now to queue up Two Lane Blacktop.

I had an Autogear M22 in my 69 camaro. Loved it. Going to have an Autogear M23 in my Bel Air.

Thanks Andrew!

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Funny how nostalgia works. I bet your Volvo is way faster and quicker than that Chevelle ever was!

You're welcome and thanks for watching!

Andrew

Michael Yount

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The same older brother was just telling me the other day the same thing. We were talking about the cars of our youth that left an impression and I mentioned his buddy's Chevelle. He said "Your brick would chew that thing up and spit it out!" Nevertheless, at the time, it damn sure got my attention.

gofastwclass

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I wondered what kind of gear you were running now that explains it! I can only imagine because with the 3.70 gears,T-56 and supercharger in my car first gear gets pretty short in a hurry.



Funny how that works Michael. Today's cars with 300HP is a real honest power number vs. the numbers from the 60's. Let's not even talk about the grip factor...

G Atsma

Memories are great! And back in the day, those old machines WERE the greatest! Time moves on...

Michael Yount

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Yup - the even-older-than-me-old-farts start to go on about their back-in-the-day 351 Mach I or 396 Chevelle with auto/3.23 gears and every option known to man or their 383 Road Runner or their 350/300 Corvette....these were the 'average' muscle cars back in the day. And I just don't have the heart to tell them that any new V6 Accord or Camry will just hand them their *** today. LOL!

gofastwclass

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So true! With the AC on no less!

LSswap

Andrew, I can't believe I've missed your thread until now. Congrats on getting the EPAS going.

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Thanks!

I am visiting my buddy John in Orlando over New Years. The plan is to wrench a little in his well equipped shop. I want to re-do the way the upper column tube attaches to the Toyota motor, and also fabricate a mount off the pedal box that will support the column in the middle.

Most of the installations that I have seen don't seem to pay much attention to the mechanical aspect of the EPAS installation. Having done mine, I look back at what other open e have done, and it seems down right scary. Before the EPAS, I never felt any shake in my column, now there is some shake that is present under various conditions. I think this is due to the fact that the column is now in 3 pieces, instead of being one solid tube. This introduces flexing, which is not optimal.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Andrew

LSswap

Since you were talking about the module that is out there to dial in the sensitivity with a dial... I wonder if that dial is just a 0 to 5 volt potentiometer? If so then a fairly simple little gizmo to convert VSS to a 0 to 5 volt is doable giving speed sensitive steering.

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Maybe...I used to have one of those **** deals, but I sold it to a friend of mine. I am pretty confident that the speed sensitive part is working on my set-up. The ***** are sold on eBay by a European company and they make them for various systems (saturn Vue, Toyota, and a few other brands).

Andrew

LSswap

Ok, caught up with your thread. It was long, but very enjoyable.

Page 37 had that burnt out fuse holder. I bought a couple so I'm going to sacrifice one to see how it was assembled. Thanks for bringing that up.

Project GatTagO

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I'm curious what you find. If I recall, mine came from Amazon. I bought a bag of 10, and after what happened, I just put them in the garbage. If you need Maxi fuse stuff, go JY diving in 90s GM cars, or in the Delphi catalog. I even have a video about it on my YouTube channel.


Andrew