Overdrive Options
Why is it that everytime an OD conversation pops up, we're talking about automatics?
Why would you want an automatic in a muscle car?
Let's hear some options for the stick.:burnout: :violent1::protest::banghead:
Only speaking for myself.....
For one, because I drove a stick daily for 20 years, that was more than enough for me. Reason #2, in my case the car will hopefully see some dragstrip duty and I am no Ronnie Sox, not to mention autos are a bit easier to deal with in a dual purpose car. For sticks, right now there is the kits from Kielser and others, the do it yourself t56, seen some folks talking about Dakota transmissions. Everything else is just in fantasy land. Besides, people are griping about the $$$ to swap in auto, the stick is more than likely going to be worse. With the price of a used t56 being what they are, at least the ones I have found, and then tacking on a rebuild it will pretty much be a wash for buying a new one at 2900. Toss in required scatter shield, clutch kit, flywheel, shifter and hydraulics for the clutch and depending on what you are starting with and where/what you do for parts you are going to hit the 5500-6000 mark. Sure, you will get some one to say I am drinking the bong water at these prices. To that I ask what parts are they starting with? And what are they going to use for parts? You talking some cheapo reman clutch disc or are you talking something decent? There is a few threads on the net where guys have swapped a t56, go and see what kind of dollars they spent. Have to toss out the guy that happened to stumble onto a brand new t56 for 500 somewhere, because those deal don't happen all that often. And I mentioned a rebuild because if I am going to go thru this much work to put a trans in my car I sure as hell am not going to swap something that has 100k+ for miles......especially something that came out of a Viper or whatever else the t56 came in...if I get a chance later I will try and find the list of stuff I was going to use when I was thinking about a t56. Sure there are other options, but I would not waste my time even researching say a t-5, because the thing is just not that much of a trans. Spent the early days of me being a gear head at a dragstrip with a guy that had a 10000 rpm sbc that ran mid 10's in a 3500 lb car. My buddy missed a gear, yours truly spent his time between rounds, pulling the trans to make sure nothing grenaded by the missed shift shift. No thanks, does not sound like much fun to me at 50 years old.....
