Re: Rear ends?

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: "Ian Cudmore" <yahootoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" 
" i've been e member of the list for a little over a year now, but dont post a 
" lot. In my gremlin i have the 232 with an offy intake and holly 400 4 
" barrel, and the stock 3spd auto (998?), and the non 'posi' rear end (AMC 
" 15?).

tf904 and amc15.

" in any case the gremmy is to be my project car. I plan to get a 93 or later 
" 4.0 (for the HO head) and rebuild it as a 4.7. I'm thinking about setting up 
" an MSD ignition/distributor/coil but i haven't heard anything much about 
" anyone using it? has anyone had experience with these parts? and whatever 
" other mods i can find to help a little here and there. This is my daily 
" driver so i have to do a bit at a time. - Rebuilding a 4.0 wont take her off 
" the road

'91-5 '7120' heads have the best ports; '96-9 '0630' second.  exhausts
are small in all of them.

by all accounts there isn't much point in dumping the stock 4.0 ign
for msd - it's already pretty hot.

how about figuring out how to make the stock mpi play with a clifford
triple-weber intake and twminduction.com throttlebodies?

" I haven't decided about a tranny yet, but have been concidering the T5. 
" While changing to standard doesn't nessicarily improve times, and can of 
" course hinder you in bracket racing, its more fun. I dont think i would have 
" any aversion to a nice floor shift automatic. Does anyone have suggestions? 
" From what i have gathered the AW4 from a 2wd jeep would do but i would realy 
" like to have OD and i dont recall seeing that on any of them? and if so is 
" there a shift kit available?

4th in the aw4 is o/d, either 0.705 or 0.75 depending on year.
the 42re used in 4.0 grand cherokees also has an o/d 4th.

wrangler 4.0s have a 'normal' fan, and 3sp autos [tf999/32rh/32re]
that work with the ecm etc and are basically an uprated version of
your tranny now.  grand chero 4.0s have the fan too.

" as for the rear end? that will have to go too i think. its old and abused 
" from the guys who beat the car to the door of the junkyard before i got her, 
" and one wheel drive just wont cut it once i have the new stroked engine in 
" there. idealy the new rear would be newer and lighter but i'll take what i 
" can get. especialy if it has disk brakes already on it. as that will save me 
" a lot of headaches. Where i am <Vancouver island> there aren't a lot of 
" AMC's so a AMC 20 would be just about out of the question even if the disc's 
" didn't come into it.

i don't think you'll find anything lighter that isn't also weaker.

just about any leaf-sprung ford or mopar with ~57" track should drop
in pretty easily.  nb. mopars have [up through the '70s anyway]
backward-threaded studs on one side.  you'd probably want to change
them.

btw any '68-'70 jav/amc or '70-up hornet/gremlin/concord/spirit amc20
is a direct fit.  and ron waters has an amc20 rear disk kit.

" sorry about the long post and i hope the older AMCers wont be too offended 
" by my plans to "rice out" my gremmy. i know i know those guys are anoying, 
" but i cant wait to see jaws drop when i wheel her onto the feild and compeat 
" in a sound comp and have them look at my car and be like "what the f^%$ is 
" that? did you feed your honda DRUGS???"

my stalled '65 project american is much like this, except i like the
sleeper look - nothing on the outside that doesn't actually make the
car go or corner faster.  i was gonna make an air dam from a truck
mudflap and mount it on the lower radiator support.  that way i could
cut it to practically scrape the ground, and it would help cooling as
well.
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