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Matt Shaff's Engine Shop / hemi bell housing for PG
« on: March 16, 2017, 07:54:53 PM »
any idea where to get a early hemi bell housing for a power glide?
sfi one.
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dean
sfi one.
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dean
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Dean,
Bruce is right on the money regarding the amount of room that the fabricated housings take up. Some manufacturers (Moser is one) make the housing so that it has a symmetrical appearance from the rear and that results in extra material outboard of the chunk on the right side. In the case of a handbrake car especially, this is not a good thing. Some of this problem is negated if you have a "high chair" car like some of the newer NT/F entries but we don't like them anyway and prefer a true nostalgia look.
The other advantage of the Strange H1110 is that its design means that the axle tubes are very well supported due to the length of the welds that secure the tubes. Most of the others simply weld the housing to the tube at the end of the housing taper and to an internal bulkhead
Roo
t I recommend poured or bead seats for everybody.
Sam, I'm not a chassis builder, but I have been racing dragsters since 1962. Ya, I raced with a flag man, before the trees. My 1'st JrFueler was a short wheel base all iron 301ci SBC high gear car where I just rev it up pop the clutch and smoke the tires [ to keep the RPM up] to about 1/2 track, on nitro. We ran 8.0's and 191mph in 1964. It was the best of times racing every weekend at about 4 differnt tracks around Wisc.and Rockford Ill.
please answer as much or as little as anyone cars to, nobody likes a newbie but i just want to learn and understand, again there is nobody i know who touches this stuff.
Thank you all,
Cheers
Sam