TRANNY CHOICES. help!!!!!

[ratrodney]

Hey.

Thought Id rake yer brains bout tranny choices.

Got my dual wheeled IH that were buildin backed up with a 355ci sbc and a nice ole 6-71 blower. Its gonna be drivin a LOT! Im one of those drive it at 20 degrees with no heater, it dont matter to me.

With that said Im looking at tranny options. I have a turbo 350 to put in it, but really want a standard tranny.

Looking at options and found sum hi priced muncies and light duty saginaws.

Wat are some of my other options? I found sum muncies outta 4wd's but are they the same as I need for 2wd cars? The 4x4 thing always throws me off. Just looking at options to fullfill my cruise needs. Tnx 4 any help. RR

p.s. Can you easily adapt a tranny like a t-5 from a 5.0 mustang to a chevy???

 

[42chevy]

The Mustang one can be converted I think. You could look for one from a Camaro or maybe run the gear vendors under/overdrive. It bolts in place of the tailshaft and doubles your gears and gives overdrive. They are warranted to 1,000 HP and have heard good things about them, they are expensive though.

 

[DJ3100]

Look at the NV3500. This is a lot stronger trans than the T-5 in the Cameros and Mustangs.

The NV3500 is the 5 speed used in Chevy and Dodge trucks. The low on mine is a little too low but 5th is .7 overdrive. I do 2000 RPMs at 70 mph with 3.73 gears and 32" tall tires.

There is a heavier Duty NV trans used in the Bigger trucks - I think its the NV4500.

These are pretty inexpensive trannys. Mine is from a '90 Chevy 1500. It is all new except the case and cost $1200 completely assembled and ready to go. Used ones are a lot more resonable. This era trans bolts up to SBC's.

 

[bighroder]

You would want a world class t5 which is in a mustang or a camaro the camaro have an angled bell housing the rock crusher (m 20) muncie would be what you want for high hp or a nv4500 which is a rock solid trans but it'll shift like a truck and I mean a dump truck lol stay away from a nv3500 there is not a snowballs chance in you know where that would hold up to a beefed up small block they were used in light duty trucks like the a10 and dakota, the muncies from the early 80s pickups are not the same they have a granny hear and probably won't get you to 80 without some tall tires and gearing and saginaws are cheap around here but I'm sure you would be replacing them a lot with a blower so you have for good choices the t5, t56 (6 speed). Nv4500 or if you use an adapter then almost anything but those are some that fit the sbc

 

[32 Essex]

Chevrolet wouldn't put the T-5 behind anything but a 305 and Mustangs are also short stroke engines, they'll take a beating for a while , but they won't last long. I put a 93 Mustang T-5 behind a 283 power pack in my 65 El Camino and It didn't last a year. One hard launch on concrete with a posi and good tires and it was a goner ! We ran a Muncie behind a DZ 302 in our 55 Chevy for a full season with worn out tires. It would run 12.50 @ 105.5 MPH in the quarter. We put a new set of M/T 8.5 X 26 slicks on it ,pulled the wheels off the ground about 6 in. twice and boom, good bye Muncie. I finally gave it up and went to a richmond road race 5 speed for the street and 350 turbo's for drag.

 

[Gregster]

The nvg 3500 is the top choice for me and the later model were hydrolic clutch equipted . when you get one from the salvage yard , get the clutch master and pedal assembly