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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 08 3:59 pm
by Anonymous
Yeah I had a mk 3 Cortina 1600 that did the same.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 08 4:12 pm
by Dave999
well the UK ford boxes use a housing that looks from internet pics to be so so similar. not the same box but the whole stick and linkage is so alike you wonder if the same guy designed it
gear stick has a hemisphear on the end
the whole thing is bolted into a kind of honey pot with a threaded collar
plastic or even steal collar into aluminium alloy honey pot just comes out so easily.
you can see the aluminium bit i mean on sandy's pic
Dave
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 08 5:06 pm
by Anonymous
[quote="Dave999
do the falcons suffer with the gear stick coming off in your hands like the vals do
its a nice feature
dave[/quote]
Yes.
I think Ford went to the single rail to up their non-import content. By that time, the 351C's were all Aus built (in other words, 2V heads with 4V inlet manifolds, and as such, were a bit 'softer' than the import US spec big port 4V head engines. Due to emissions laws, ADR27
http://www.infrastructure.gov.au/roads/ ... _adrs.aspx
the last CK617 (the US 4V's) slipped out the door in late 1973 with Top Loaders. After Jan 1974, they were all single rails.
Apart from, as I mentioned, a batch of GT's that mysteriously appeared with Top Loaders through 1976 (just as the GT was being killed off) so that Ford could slip them back through CAMS.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 08 5:15 pm
by Anonymous
Note, both bellhousings have provisions for hydraulic clutches.
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 08 6:57 pm
by Richard
4 speeds look and sound great,but the novelty soon seems to wear off, particularly behind a big block so it's auto for me now.
My mustangs are all manual though, they seem to suit smaller less torquey engines better.
Best by far is my T5 conversion although I don't think it would last long on the strip.
Posted: Sat Mar 29, 08 5:53 pm
by GTXJim
Here's my 4 speed gonna be a big learning curve with this
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 08 2:14 am
by Rich
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 08 10:56 am
by Boz01
Definatly looks the biz!!!
Actually just thinking about it the one and only car i would get with a 4 speed manual would have to be a 1970 Plymouth Superbird....Oh yeah and not forgeting the 440 six pack to go with it!!!
Posted: Sun Mar 30, 08 1:13 pm
by Blue
GTXJim wrote:Here's my 4 speed gonna be a big learning curve with this
Looks easy enough Jim, just keep pulling levers till you run out of track.....
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 08 7:58 am
by J Clark
4spd
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 08 9:29 am
by Anonymous
Is that a lenco Jim? Why are the levers so long? I know paul said you had short arms and long pockets but I didnt think he was that serious
