RE: mail Digest for 16 Mar 2005 in hour 11:00

["Ian Cudmore" <yahootoo@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

thanks for the info. I'll stick with the stock 4.0 ign then. Playing with 
the stock intake on the new motor was the origional plan, probably 
increasing the size of the injectors... but those throttle body's look 
pretty sweet. has anyone tried this yet? might take a lot of work to get all 
set up, but man that would be awesome. a tripple webber intake, and 
twminduction.com throttlebodies, that will definately have to be put on the 
list... :)
are there AMC15 disk kits as well as the AMC20 ones? i had an email form a 
guy only 2000k or so from home who has a posi 15

its too bad your 65 'stalled' hope it gets finnished. but a mud flap as your 
air dam... i must be picturing this wrong because, well it looks pretty 
hidious in my mental image. what was the plan?


From: Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: mail@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Rear ends?
Sent: March 16, 2005 9:39:38 AM
" 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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