Re: [AMC-list] calponycar adapter to replace the T-96 with T-5...

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

> " The current OD is 0.7, a big jump (30%) from 3rd, but 3rd+OD is highway
> " perfect. Keeping the same overall final top ratio but adding more gears
> " below would be the solution.
>
> but you can't close the gap to top gear from the one below -and- keep
> top-gear rpm the same unless you regear the axle as well as change o/d.
>
> and with a 3.77 axle, just about any t5 1st would be unusably low.  on
> the wide-ratio trannies, 2nd is only a little taller than the t-96
> 1st!
>

Hmm, I wasn't looking at 1st and 2nd ratios in all this. You're right, some
of them are unusably lousy (might as well run a T4). I better cobble up a
whole spreadsheet for the T5 and axles. I've been thinking only of the top
two gears really.



> pps. off your budget, but i wonder what stockton wheel would charge to
> put 16x7" [say] rims on amc centers...  225/55 are about 26"!


Just all new steel wheels with 4.5 x 5 pattern and offset to spec, about
$120 each. I swear I paid $50 each for the ones I have,
wheelvintiques.com12 series smoothies but they're not listed as
available and comparable are
now $100. Two years price change?

I filled out one of those quote forms for Stockton, but irritatingly
clicking SUBMIT does nothing. I'll call on Monday.


What I'm trying to do is juggle wheel, tire, shock, trans options for
optimum performance and cost. Maybe I should be looking for import car
transmissions, since overwhelming HP is not an issue for me.

The TBI fuel injection I'm moving on ASAP. It's a done deal. That guy that
Joe Fulton turned me on to is actively working on the adapter for a Ford
1bbl throttle body and one more pass and it will be right. I bought the
computer, hacked with a socket, have pigtails for it, have fuel pump etc.
Only thing not planned out is the throttle linkage and that I'll just build
on the car at the last minute.

Got the alternator bracket all fabricated yesterday, for high mount on
passenger side. Clean and neat. Re-plumbed the PCV already (valve cover to
PCV) I'll see if that makes it suck oil. Factory PCV slightly interferes
with new alternator placement.
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