I have a stock S10 T5 in a '55 Chevy, 350, 370 gears, shifts like butter. If you don't have a heavy foot & big weenies I don't see the need for overthinking it with a WCT5, other than gear ratio choices.
On the S10-T5, I now have about 3,000 / 4,000 miles on the new trans. Other than getting the hydraulic T/O bearing dialed in the trans seems okay. It seems a little louder than I recall, tho the car has little sound insulation and,...I may be over thinking it because of past experience
On the 180 degree headers,...I'm thinkin about a reboot. The flame went out late last year after several failed attempts to stuff all of the pipes between the head and frame rail and get all that under the toe board on the driver side. Re that, I'm also looking at cowl steering and suspended pedals because of space issues.
Good to hear about the new trans! The re work with the headers is a frustrating spot to be, but I am curious to see how you tackle it.
Sheech!!!!! It's been well over a year since I shared anything on the Header Project. Wellll,...I'm back. Finally sucked up my enthusiasm to get back to the challenge. When I last left this project, I was struggling to stuff all the tubes in the space available. Today I gave up, and ripped everything out,....again. The last two pics are todays effort. Hopefully 3rd time's a success. I've run outta tubing bends so I'm on the site with Summit,....AGAIN!
“Third times the charm” on the upside you’ve probably got one heck of tubing wall display in the shop now!
The best part about working with metal is you can cut it out and weld it back together again. Glad to see you're back at it!
I’m going fender less and started with a used set of 50 dollar exhaust from a 454 race car. Even traveling outside of the frame has issues so I can only imagine the scope of your efforts.
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