Re: [AMC-List] new car, new ideas

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I think I would have opted for an AMC 727 with a flipped/clocked Dana 300.


-Spro
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From: "Swygert, Francis G MSgt 436 CES/CECM" <Francis.Swygert3@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 

> Got it now!! I didn't pay close enough attention. The Dana T-case has a 
> passenger side drive to the front, I was thinking he was trying to move 
> the drive to the passenger side (that the Dana had driver's side front 
> output). Need to pay a little closer attention sometimes! 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Mark Price [mailto:markprice242@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 10:34 AM 
> To: amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> Cc: Swygert, Francis G MSgt 436 CES/CECM 
> Subject: Re: [AMC-List] new car, new ideas 
> 
> Frank, read again, he plans on flipping the T-case not the axle! 
> He is intending to leave the clocking so that the front output is lower 
> than a normal Eagle to help clear the Spirit floor. Interesting plan. 
> Not sure it is worth the effort, but, we'll see. 
> -- 
> Mark Price 
> markprice242ATadelphia.net 
> Morgantown, WV 
> 
> 
> ---- "Swygert wrote: 
> > Jim, you can't just flip the Eagle front axle to the right side, you 
> > know. How do you plan on overcoming that little problem? Swapping left 
> > and right side axle shafts and tubes? Seems like it would be better to 
> > leave the drive on the left and bend a new head pipe. You'll have a 
> lot 
> > of floor work either way. 
> > 
> > ------------- 
> > My plan for the Spirit (I keep trying to call it an AMX because it 
> > reminds me of the '77 I had to part for the motor to go into my '73 
> > J4000) 
> > is to put EFI on the 258 and a lockup 727 trans (pretty basic to this 
> > point 
> > but now it gets "different") then put a Dana 20 tcase on the IH 727 
> (off 
> > an 
> > AMC 6 rig) and flip it to the driver's side. Top that off with an AMC 
> > Eagle 
> > front axle and sub frame and Jeep XJ rear axle (I have a 3.07 geared 
> > pair) 
> > I'll have to mod the floor a bit on the driver's side, but not 
> nearly 
> > as 
> > much as for the regular tcase used in Eagles. 
> > 
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