That might be just right! Thanks! Is there a supplier that has a variety of different ratios to choose from?
Speedway has some as low as 5.86 but that’s probably too low. Im thinking I need something around 4.30-4.50ish range.
You must have a 4 or 5 spd trans or not a flathead engine. lol. I just put a quick change banjo in my 32 it’s got 4.68. It’s screaming at 45-50. lol
I think the reason Henry Ford made the v8-60 1937-40 was so to that later on we would have something that fit into a Model T. In the quick change, the primary ring and pinion can be compensated by the back gears. I put a Columbia rear end in m 28 PU with 4.11 as the ring and pinion. 7.00 x 16 tires on back. The running joke was/is there was this guy that had a dead orange grove that was parallel to one of my family's. Ours was productive. Anyway this kind of weird guy had a side business of buying up all the banjo rear ends he could collect from junkyards. Took them to a tin shed in the dead grove and set up a scraping rack. He would cut out the center section of the rear ends, keeping the center with the truncated axle housings and a stub of the torque tube and drive shaft. Piled up everything else and sold for scrap metal. Sold these center cuts to a company that built golf carts and those industrial trucksters. Along the line he picked up a couple of complete Columbia rear ends that did not fit his scrapping plan. I purchased a couple from him at the then large price of $25 each. That was I think in 1965 or 66 . Anyway he stayed in the rear end business till his death. The guy's name was Frank Currie. I laugh I have the only Currie Columbia rear end ever in my 28 roadster pu.
I’m having a T5 built with a .55 overdrive. So my hope is to have a close ratio hot rod on the street yet it will still be able to cruise down the highway. And it going to have a 292 Y block.
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