Re: [Amc-list] six flywheel

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>
" 
" On Fri, 7 Mar 2008, Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
" 
" > 500 horsepower?
" > Front engine?
" > Time to make a engine plate and go to a scattershield...
" 
" []
" 
" You're right, a welded steel box right under my ankles would
" be a better idea.

this makes me think...

a couple of years ago i chatted with a mustang racer at the local scca
regionals.  he mentioned that he had tranny [t5] problems until he
replaced his stock aluminum bellhousing with a steel one.  apparently
the aluminum bell was flexing enough behind his 500+hp 302...

so i just checked my 'mexican' bell with a magnet.  i knew it was
thicker than a t96 bell and way heavier; i just proved it's iron or
steel.  this is not to say it'd contain a clutch or flywheel
explosion, but it'll better handle 500 hp.

[before lakewood bellhousings became readily available, you could get
energy absorbing 'clutch blankets' to wrap around your bellhousing to
contain an explosion.]

also, in addition to meat in the right places to drill a gm tranny
pattern it also has meat for a t18, which makes me wonder if it could
be a jeep bell.  more confusing, it has a 7-digit casting number that
looks like amc and i don't know what amc would be doing making jeep
bellhousings even for their own 232 or 327.

if you don't already have a suitable flywheel, mcleod used to offer
steel and even aluminum ones for the 199/232.  they might be willing
to dig their patterns out.
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