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Hi,
My name is Richard and I'm a car addict.
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I'm located in Lubbock Texas.
I'm a locomotive engineer and I've worked for the Santa Fe/BNSF railroad since 1971.
I was raised on Ford but I have to confess I've strayed in the past I'm just pretty much hooked on anything with wheels, at the present time I have a 55 Thunderbird and wife has a 97 Mustang gt conv. ( also my daily commuter is a 98 ZX2 and I have a 54 Studebaker 2 dr ht custom project, hence my E-mail address).
I was directed to this forum when I was trying to find info on T-5 tranny's, I'm in the process of swapping the automatic out of the T-bird and installing a T-5. I first swapped my tranny to another guy doing a resto on another 55 T-bird, so I've already got the bell housing, pedal assy's and all related standard tranny/ clutch linkage/ brackets. I plan on keeping the Y-block with the t-5 behind it. I've already found a T-5 to Y-block bellhousing adaptor plate on John Mummert's Y-block site.
While looking at the T-5 spec's chart I noticed that the T-5's for the 94-97 3.8 liter V-6 have the same max. torque spec's as the 85-89 5.0 liter T-5's , seems the main difference is the length of the input shaft and the lower gear ratios 2nd-5th gear in the v-6. I will be running a 57 Ford 9" with 3.55 gears and the 0.73 final drive for a V-6 might be even more desirable than the 0.63 final drive for the 5.0 liter tranny.
My question is, can anyone tell me if there is enough pilot bearing input shaft length to cut some of the input off, or maybe add a ½" shim to the tranny adaptor to get the distance needed for the pilot bearing to fit properly. Also, will this tranny be strong enough for the Y- block seeing as it seemed to work ok for the earlier 5.0's. The original 55 Y-block was rated at 190 hp but I don't know torque figures, I know that hp figures are figured differently now then they were back in '55 and todays figures would be alot less rating. but I don't know how the torque figures convert to the way they are figured today. The Y-block that I have is a '62 big web 292, I have 312 heads and intake and will be running a Holley Pro-Jection fuel inj. setup. and police interceptor cam grind.
I don't plan on abusing the tranny, but I will on occasion load it pretty heavy when leaving an occasional stop light next to brand X auto
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I'm trying to keep the cost down on this swap as the wife is the one with most of the money and all the P#$$^ !!
Gotta keep peace any way you can .
Hope I'm welcome here and look forward to visiting here again
Take care, Rich
here's a pic of my T-bird
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubb/image_uploads/tbird121501engpulled.jpg
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Cool55bird on 12/30/01 2:09pm ]</font>
My name is Richard and I'm a car addict.
I'm located in Lubbock Texas.
I'm a locomotive engineer and I've worked for the Santa Fe/BNSF railroad since 1971.
I was raised on Ford but I have to confess I've strayed in the past I'm just pretty much hooked on anything with wheels, at the present time I have a 55 Thunderbird and wife has a 97 Mustang gt conv. ( also my daily commuter is a 98 ZX2 and I have a 54 Studebaker 2 dr ht custom project, hence my E-mail address).
I was directed to this forum when I was trying to find info on T-5 tranny's, I'm in the process of swapping the automatic out of the T-bird and installing a T-5. I first swapped my tranny to another guy doing a resto on another 55 T-bird, so I've already got the bell housing, pedal assy's and all related standard tranny/ clutch linkage/ brackets. I plan on keeping the Y-block with the t-5 behind it. I've already found a T-5 to Y-block bellhousing adaptor plate on John Mummert's Y-block site.
While looking at the T-5 spec's chart I noticed that the T-5's for the 94-97 3.8 liter V-6 have the same max. torque spec's as the 85-89 5.0 liter T-5's , seems the main difference is the length of the input shaft and the lower gear ratios 2nd-5th gear in the v-6. I will be running a 57 Ford 9" with 3.55 gears and the 0.73 final drive for a V-6 might be even more desirable than the 0.63 final drive for the 5.0 liter tranny.
My question is, can anyone tell me if there is enough pilot bearing input shaft length to cut some of the input off, or maybe add a ½" shim to the tranny adaptor to get the distance needed for the pilot bearing to fit properly. Also, will this tranny be strong enough for the Y- block seeing as it seemed to work ok for the earlier 5.0's. The original 55 Y-block was rated at 190 hp but I don't know torque figures, I know that hp figures are figured differently now then they were back in '55 and todays figures would be alot less rating. but I don't know how the torque figures convert to the way they are figured today. The Y-block that I have is a '62 big web 292, I have 312 heads and intake and will be running a Holley Pro-Jection fuel inj. setup. and police interceptor cam grind.
I don't plan on abusing the tranny, but I will on occasion load it pretty heavy when leaving an occasional stop light next to brand X auto
I'm trying to keep the cost down on this swap as the wife is the one with most of the money and all the P#$$^ !!
Gotta keep peace any way you can .
Hope I'm welcome here and look forward to visiting here again
Take care, Rich
here's a pic of my T-bird
http://www.jalopyjournal.com/ubb/image_uploads/tbird121501engpulled.jpg
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Cool55bird on 12/30/01 2:09pm ]</font>
