66 Cuda 360 questions

Somebody at Brewer's told me that the only way to make the OD trans fit in an early A was to use a 4.8" diameter input bearing retainer (it has to be the one made to fit with the larger #308 bearing used on the OD trans) on the front of the trans. Then take a bellhousing with a 4.309" hole & have it machined to fit the 4.8" bearing retainer. They said it had to do with getting the clutch fork pivot mounted in the right place to make all of the linkage fit & work correctly. If you use an OD bellhousing (the one with the 5.125" hole) the pivot mounts too far out. I think this then requires you to use the longer clutch fork & then you start to run into clearance problems with all of the other crap (like exhaust) that's fighting for the same space.

I can say that if you use fenderwell headers you eliminate a lot of those pesky problems.