We each needed on of coarse so we had them shipped to work.
First issue is converting it to RWD manual transmission. We wanted to use the RWD flywheel like Sam did. One company that's working on the conversion. Not sure if they finished it or not cut the flex plate starter gear off and welded it onto the RWD flywheel. Since Sam already crossed this bridge we thought...
Pulsar vs. VET bell pattern
few the same!
Aww and just like that there is the solution. Sure glad we paid more for the engine that came with the MAF and starter....
Two motors and 1 MAF we got...
Now to get a transmission to fit. We do need to sort out the pilot bushing at some point. This is a scan of the RWD block VS. FWD block. Although in this shot they aren't clocked perfect (somehow didn't get a shot of them clocked perfect) You can see how lots of the holes do line up. Since we don't really want to run a 71C since they are getting hard to find and these motors start 300hp we are going to skip to a bigger transmission that's easy to find. So the CD009 won. The Z32 was an option but it weighted the same as the CD009 120lbs.
In the rough scan above you can see the starter side is different. The FWD Motors differs by mounting the starter to the block not the transmission.
Sam doing some scanning.
Looks like it should work!
Test fitting. No adapter yet.
