Too much Torque?

[Jerry Clayton]

the q/c rears have an even lower drine shaft line and the extra gears and housing on the back complicate the fuel tank area--not only for the gear case room but clearance to change the Q/C gearsets.With the pinion / ring gear is at 0 * offset compared to the 9er, you probably won't lose as much power thru the Q/C gears as one might think. On the
9er you do have choice of some gear tooth counts that would reduce drag

[STL Mark]

It's a street car - no track or strip intentions as he stated. All great points, but if he just stays with street tires and his current set-up, he'll break traction when he wants some fun and won't break any parts. And with gas heading towards 4 bucks a gallon he could keep his pennies for cruising. That beast will be drinking gas like crazy anyway.

[RICK LAKE]

Gaz64 Yes you are right. The other question is we don't know if the camshaft was just dropped in or was setup to camshaft manufacture specs.
The other things are this
this motor is a 521 I think he said, how big is this camshaft?? That's a nice size 460 over built. Retarding the camshaft will kill alot more than 20 ft of torque. more in the range of 40-60ft. It may only kill about 20 HP down low. A small camshaft in a 482 motor with .600" total lift kill 35 ft of tork in the bottom end with a 4 degree change. Remember that these camshafts are designed for smaller motors. 70-90 more cubes is alot of extra room to fill. Kill the timing also will do the same thing. Rick L.

[RICK LAKE]

COBRANIP John A guy here on the forum did it with his cobra in an ERA car. I think his name on the forum was N2000JR or something like this. Have not seen him on here in a couple of years. I talked to him. Alot of work to get this to work. I have a file on it but this was on the old computor that crashed. Have no way to retreive it. Need an old 850. The Gas tank was notched out to clear the rear cover. It was not a quick change like dirt track cars and took a couple of hours. Normal would be in the 10-20 minute range. The guts are 9" parts with a 3.70 ratio. You can go from the low 2.00 to 7.00 something with just a swap of 2 gears and fluid. A differential cooler and pump can be added. You can get an internal or external pump to move the fluid. I looked at this setup myself. It's quicker to change rearend carrier assemblies in an ERA then to swap gears in one because of room. Rick L.