Yeah, Ive been in contact with them over the years.....no 727 runs though only the TH400 setups
and they are a few pieces shy of a full 727 kit from old stock.
Thats excellent, I was told by the seller a friend of my dads, "When you set this thing up give me a call and Ill come over and show you how, its a bitch" Ill take it from your post his fear is not an understatment, he had it on an alky 392 FED.......His card is on my dresser for just that occasion
The use in the 49 plymouth will be nifty, straight axle car (now) and with the 60 in the arse should be a lot of fun, kinda like driving a 10 second FexEx truck. But now that I actually after nearly 10 years of TRULY hunting have my hands on 2 good units, Im shy to actually use them for fear of breaking them.
Ive met about 3 other people in person in my life that actually knew , and i mean really knew about them, I started thinking, all the veteran racers here might have some input....thanks !
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Originally Posted by Alan Roehrich
There is a company that still makes the stuff. The good stuff was made by Winters, I think they sold their tooling to Maverick.
It is in no way shape or form legal for Stock or Super Stock, regardless of whether you claim automatic or manual.
One of the last people to campaign one successfully was the late great Ronnie Duke. The Duke Brothers ran a Clutch Turbo in Super Gas for about 15 years. It eventually kills the input shaft and the forward clutch drum. I built their transmissions until they switched to a Lenco. That car one a ton of races, track championships, and was in the hunt for national championships on a regular basis. But they worked on it constantly.
If you could get someone to make you a steel forward input drum, machined to take the new killer input shaft spline used in the 1000HP automatics, and then get someone to make you an input shaft from 4340 torsional steel, you might get one to last a lot longer.
They are violent, the shifts are absolutely brutal at any speed, at any throttle input. They are tricky to use, maintain, and set up. Aligning the bellhousing is even more critical than the trickest manual box and clutch.
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