Hi guys. I've been off the board for a while because I haven't had a spare minute to breathe. I'm getting back in the swing of things with building cars and I realized that I never offered the adapters I developed when I built my car to all of you guys. I'm in a pretty fortunate situation to have a machinist at my beckoned call. He has access to a waterjet. He and I developed an adapter for my car and it worked perfectly. He can do some limited runs of the adapter plates for about $125 per adapter. That will include the hardware. From what I understand, these will work on the flatheads as well. I'm at work right now and don't have any pictures but I will try to get some uploaded by this weekend. If you are interested in purchasing one, shoot me an email at coalcitykustoms@gmail.com.
Oh, also.....these should work for Ford inlines from 49 - 64 from what I can find. I haven't personally been able to test them out on the later cars but I know they work for the older ones. I have one in my car (53 Customline) with a T5, 11" astro van clutch and Chevy C20 clutch fork. It works awesome. There are a few thousand miles on the car and no issues whatsoever.
Not that I know of. But, according to Mummert's, the input shaft is shorter on the Mustang than the S-10. On his adapter, he specifies using '93 and older Mustang t5's. I would think an S-10 adapter would be better because (at least in my area) the Mustang transmissions are tough to find but the S-10 are everywhere. He also rotates the bolt pattern slightly to move the shifter closer to the driver. Here's a link for Mummerts. Here's a link for Flat Ernies T5 article that has some useful info in it.
Ok, I didn't realize there was a difference in the input shaft. Since the S-10 T5's are much easier to come by, that's what I designed my adapter around. As far as the shifter goes, it couldn't be in a better spot with my adapter. I'll get some pics of the adapter and the shifter position in the car when I go to my shop tomorrow. Thanks for all that info. I will check it all out. I'm not looking to turn this into a big money making thing, I just like the idea of using an inline and figured there might be other people out there that wanted to do the same.
I'm right there with ya on the inline. I'm gathering parts for upgrading everything on my '54 and a T5 adapter is at the top of the list. Finding a Mustang trans has been the only thing holding me back from getting Mummerts adapter. Can't wait to see picks.
Thats the adapter. It will come in aluminum plate with the hardware shown for $125. The pics below will give you an idea of where a stock S-10 shifter will fall in a 52-54.
SWEET! The shifter location is perfect! Question: How thick is the remaining material at the bottom of the countersink for the socket cap screws?
I'm going to guess 3/8" but I would have to measure it to give you an exact. From what I recall, the adapter needed to be 3/4" thick to space the trans out correctly so I'm going to guess the countersink was about half the thickness.
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