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Very nice Mopar fastfish! Wow if I was in the USofA I would snap her up! Unfortunately I am a Limey in the UK...:BangHead: I had my 66 belvedere project stolen from outside my farm unit and was never found...:soapbox:

Thanks Kimmer! Its a lot of work changing out drums if they don't work! I've been converting my transmissions to wide band 71'onwards DRUMs due to ring seal failures (and worse). I've also been using the same input shafts but noticed an extra oil-hole in the pre 71 shafts? Will this have any...

Good thread guys! (bad pun lol) The less thread sticking out, THE BETTER! The further you go out/down, the more RATIO you are losing... Sometimes you burn up adjusters and can't see the problem? Oil in the cup and they still wear out? Change them for another set and the problem goes away...

Nice reply Rumble. Back in the day (1990's) just running a ten was my mission. Running a mid ten felt very fast at first, but like beer you get used to it! But life and money stopped me in my tracks and twenty years has rolled past, you get to thinking of nines. Most of the guys then were...

Hi A-bods, I would love to boast about my NINES but 'cash and weight' probably stopped me...:BangHead: I was told, 'back in the day' that I could run a NINE without NOS and an IRON 440ci motor. My car was approx 2800lbs and was tagged to run EIGHTS, so well capable. (did run 8.20@180 on street...

Thanx for the reply Charlie. How do you know if your VB is 'low-band' apply in Manual first? According to all the books I've read, that's a stock configuration. That's why you don't BURNOUT in DRIVE. Does the 'VB drilling' done in the B&M transkit, transco etc. render this 'inoperative'? If so...

Hi A-bods, Old thread I know but I'm also looking for 'lip seal' info. I've seen you can fit 71-up lip seals into pre 70 front drums. Is this correct? As I have a pile of 71-up rebuild stuff and very little earlier parts. Best wishes from John

Wanted please a 727 billet steel front-drum. New or used is fine with or without internals. many thanx from John

Hi inertia, B&M VB upgrades show the drilling of the VB body for the 1st gear 'free-wheeling'. I still don't understand what this is actually for after all my years of drag racing lol...:lol: At the end of the strip , I just let the throttle of 'real slowly' and apply the brakes 'real gentle'...

Hi Neil and Andy, I've had a few RHD barracuda's over the years the best being my first mopar a convertible notch! Sold it to Nigel Cooper in Fulham the Facel Vega restorer. His wife drove it around London town for a while but I lost track of it. It had an ex-jensen 383ci motor and 727 in there...

Nice article and clears up some 'old wives tales'! I have sometimes shifted 'third again' (3/4 strip) if the engine sounds like its 'over revving' on the track. If it wasn't a reverse pattern 727 then the motor would have gone! When you circuit race (like me) you change gear mainly on engine...

Nice workmanship KMA. Seen a few guys have made their own flowbenches, thats well cool! I have a friend in California who is from Finland, he used to live and work in Sweden and now in the US of A. He has incredible skills when doing sheetmetal and has restored many Mopars, to the top level. Not...

Nice list of Bearings there Fishy68! Loving the 'any parts store' quote, here in the UK ''if it ain't metric, don't ask'' lol... Best wishes from the UK

Good article on Art Pollard! What a crazy year 1969 turned out to bee with the Petty-Ford story. Shame the 320ci Weslake engine wasn't more successful then Mother Mopar may have carried on with the Indy cars? The 305ci engine was just a crazy in 71 and just a bit more luck and smallblock Nascar...

From what I can gather, the D5 heads were cast by Weslake's to improve on the iron heads in 1970 for the PS guys? So a radical re-think was done to 'totally change' the design and it was a complete 'white elephant'... Tiny round ports with re-angled valve alignment making the heads sit wider on...