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

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Yeah, Yeah, Rub it in already!
Uh, if your building a 400 horse motor won't you need to sell the T-5 to me to get a stronger trans?????  :]

Mark Price
mprice@xxxxxxxxxx
Morgantown, WV
69 AMC rambler, 4.0L, EFI, 5 speed 
65 Ambassador Conv, 327 AUTO, Basketcase
01 S-10 CREWCRAP 4X4



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From: fljab@xxxxxxxxxxx
Reply-To: mail-From-mprice-westco.net@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date:  Tue, 10 May 2005 09:38:02 -0400

>On May 9, 2005 andrew hay wrote:
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>> 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.
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>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.
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>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.
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>Jim Boone
>Mims, FL
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