steel bellhousings

[GM Man]

all you have to do to make a 465 work is take it to a machine shop and have them enlarge the center hole. its 4.xxx on a regular bellhousing and they need to enlarge it to 5.xxx, i dont remember the exact dimensions...

So the bolt patterns for both car and truck trannys are the same?? Just want to make sure..

 

[79k20350]

As far as ive read they are the same. i can measure my bell if you want. it wouldnt be til tomorrow but it could clear up some issues

 

[GM Man]

That would be cool, I think it would help out a lot of guys on this.

 

[atho]

Kind of a sidebar, has anyone ever modified one of these scattershields to use a non-GM transmission behind a GM engine?

 

[tarussell]

Kind of a sidebar, has anyone ever modified one of these scattershields to use a non-GM transmission behind a GM engine?

I have not modified one myself but through my years working at a Speed Shop I have seen several SFI steel bells modified to fit what ever was needed.
Usually a spacer was needed for the length of the tranny input shaft and than the tranny bolt pattern was redrilled and index bore either had a ring machined to fill up space or the spacer was machined to the correct size and centered.
HTH , Tom

 

[Slapperbar]

A lot of bells are made for adapting parts. ie. frankinbell

 

[atho]

The reason I was asking, I found a few Spicer 3053A tranny's for cheap.
They are the 5 speed from the military deuce multifuels.

I found a JP magazine article where they swapped one into a Jeep M715 behind a 427 chevy. in the article, they had to get the bellhousing and adapter plate from a late 70's C60 with a 5 speed, and it bolted to the Spicer tranny, and then to the engine with the plate. I thought to myself, "wouldn't it be easier to modify a steel scattershield?"

thanks for the replies fellas

 

[darkshadow]

i remember some one having a farly detailed write up of there swap a year or so ago, did you search?

probably a crappy thing to search for too many responces