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["Jim Blair" <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

A: The 327, Buick motors, and AMC V8s till '73 all used an adapter ring to 
the Nailhead TH400. I saw, but didn't get a pic of a 232 with TH400 (pre 
'72) that also had an adapter ring. I ran into difficulties last summer when 
I was going to get a '66 J300 with OHC 6 and auto so it was never finished. 
(I had a spare 4.0L and AMC adapter ring for the TH400)


From: farna@xxxxxxx
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So the Buick 350 in Jeeps used an adapter too? I thought only the 327 used 
the adapter. I guess the reason was the trans they were selling Kaiser Jeep 
at the time. It was the "universal" or "export" model. I guess GM started 
seeling the nailhead pattern case to overseas customers to keep volume up 
(just a guess!), then had to continue making them for supply/replacement 
reasons for a while after the nailhead went away.

On April 20, 2005 mail-return@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> actually when i said 350, i meant the engine not the tranny.
>
> " which is a pattern all of it's own aside from BOP or Chev
>
> yup, but the engine is bop - hence the adapter.  used to puzzle me why
> they didn't just use a bop case...
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