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Old 04-25-2010, 01:57 AM
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Originally Posted by sambo View Post
Wazza, what else has to be done to get those (Team 3? Vintage?) wheels under a Harrison? Commodore or Factory Five rear end?

They're Vintage Wheels....
8.5 inch front
10.5 inch rear.

http://www.vintagewheelsus.com/products2.php

The knock off / pin drive wheels needed some room on the front to allow for the pin drive adaptor...so I had bigger front guards created for them..a bit of mucking around with the fibreglasser to get it the way I wanted...but all good now.

The rear width of the Ford Thunderbird I.R.S. is pretty narrow, which allowed a fairly deep dish wheel.

No other changes to the rear bits...other than the diff.
The diff I got didn't have L.S.D. , so I've fitted a "Detroit Truetrac LSD"

http://www.eaton.com/EatonCom/Produc...trac/index.htm

Current rear ratio is 3.27 / 1.....
I'll see how it goes with the 6 speed Tremec , before I consider any change ......not really much point in changing it to ...say..a 3.5 / 1 ?...until I suck it and see .

Cheers
Warren
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