A different Q on 340 Vs 416

Treblig said
Without an overdrive transmission your rear gear choices are fewer. If you only drive the car occasionally and never any long, long distances I'd go for the lower gear just for the fun of it!! But that just me??
That's why I went with the 2004R overdrive. 4:10/4:11 gears, tall tires and decent gas mileage.

Treblig

Yeah overdrive would be nice,but i already have a trans and a very nice converter,but who knows i might go that direction sometime in the future after this thing gets on the road again after a long wait in the dark.

rumblefish360 said
Well, after reading that whole thing, the only off balance part of what I would do, the 400+ inch stroker and 800 Edelbrock carb, would be the cam choice with the 3.21 ratio.

It would be up to you to get the converter right with what ever tire diameter you choose. (I’d also use the widest tire possible) It would be an interesting balance between the two while your motoring down the Hwy. at what ever the rpm would be. I wouldn’t want the trans to get to hot because the converter isn’t engaging proper heating up the fluid.

While an external cooler would help a bunch, I would recommend that addition anyway to anyone on there Hwy. hot rod.

Staying tuned for this build.
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yeah that cam is alitle large for that gear but would it be bad enough in a 416 to be worth swaping when i already have it and wont take the thing down the track that much?
Figuring it will roll on some 28" tall tires,probably some M&H or M/Ts with about 10" worth of section width from what i remeber would fit nicely in the stock wheelwells considering how hopeless it has been to get going on the rustrepairs on this thing im not going to start cutting up the wheelwells anytime soon. Lol.
Yeah external transmission cooler is a good idea even thought this custom converter is insanly tight when just driving around town,it has been between different engines and gear ratios in this car in the past without an external cooler without transproblems,dont laugh now but i used to run a radiator i found in a junkyard out of some 4cylinder Ford Escort or possibly a Sierra and used its built in automatic transmission cooler without any problems and the 340 never overheated and no transproblems either,but will avoid to take that chance again,since im probably to old to do the stuff i did when i was 25 again.

This build will happen over some time,there is lots to do but realy looking forward to get this thing on the road again hopefully to next summer.