As close to the Pure Hell FED as IHRA rules will let me
Young bloke picked up the slide-and-glide yesterday (with thanks Brett). Date code shows it was made by McKinnon Industries in Canada, dayshift of the 1st of November 1968. Probably out of a HK, maybe HT.
Removable bellhousing so 6-cylinder version. Legend has it that some bellhousings were only partial circumference and prone to cracking (not sure which cars had that?) though this one is full-circumference.
Weighs in at 46kg dry and with no convertor/flexplate.
• a used grey crashbox, without oil, clutch or flywheel, weighs approximately 27kg.
• a used red crashbox weighs 21.0kg (6kg of this is the bellhousing).
• a used Aussie 3 speed weighs 27.5kg (without bellhousing).
• a used hydramatic weighs 47.5kg.
It needs to be cut down to a "shorty" version and manualised... be interesting to see how heavy it is after that.
Cheers,
Harv
327 Chev EK wagon, original EK ute for Number 1 Daughter, an FB sedan meth monster project and a BB/MD grey motored FED.