Re: 304/290/200R4 - now V8 Fuel Mileage

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On May 9, 2005 andrew hay wrote:

 
> for a 290/304, the ford 5.0 t5 is a fairly trivial adaptation.  but
> even the svt t5 is only rated 330 ft-lbs, so it's a little iffy behind
> a 343 or 360 especially in a heavier car.  not impossible with a
> little care though.

I've been running a SVO T5 behind my '70 390 in an American for a couple of yrs now with no problems.  Admittedly, I don't race with it, just normal driving with occasional burn-outs.  These T5's are used by the 5.0 crowd and last quite well for racing and most applications in all but the most brutal set-ups.  You do need to know which one you get tho as they made many, many different models of this transmission over the yrs with all different strength levels.

It would be nice to go to a Tremec in the 390 car, but I came up with this entire setup, bellhousing to driveshaft, for $1000 with the SVO trans that had been bought directly from Ford Motorsports and had 7000 miles on it.  It was behind a 304 Spirit before I bought it.

Jim Boone
Mims, FL


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