@BudW, thank you for the detailed and insightful posts. Truly appreciated.
@Duke5A and
@XfbodyX, thank you for the replies and bountiful information as well. I do genuinely mean it. I certainly mean no disrespect towards you fellas.
I thought I even mentioned in a post that, I do regularly apply the things you’ve all shared on here and that I’m actively learning about this stuff, hence I ask questions and some times say things that just, don’t add up to you more knowledgeable individuals.
With that said, I’m also not trying to copy anyone’s build particularly (though @dukes old YouTube videos of his 5th Ave are a legit reason I decided to buy the car) And I don’t feel I’m trying to reinvent the wheel, I mean multiple companies make the parts to do this very thing. Clearly somewhere out there, people are doing this Combo.
In my head, which again, I’m still learning this stuff, a well built performance transmission shouldn’t have that great of energy traveling through the physical bell house and case itself, the energy should be going through the inner workings and moving parts of the transmission...it’s when those said inner moving parts fail and then exert that energy onto the case and bell house that you run into problems. Does that sound correct?
And that then brings me back to, why a small block trans built for 500-600hp/lbf-ft performance use with quality parts would suddenly be so useless behind a big block of similar power output?
We also established that this CRT adapter kit uses a new flywheel assembly to replace the flex plate and requires a new torque converter w/o ring gear, so it’s not quite like the adapters with bushings/spacers and block clearancing like you guys mentioned and were familiar with.
Im just working ideas, nothings set in stone.
...I would have expected this reaction if I casually said, “ I’m doing a 4 rotor Wankel build with sequential transmission”. Man, that would be neat.
