S10 to a flathead?

I was at a shop today and a guy was asking what is needed to take a 5spd S10 Trans and bolt it up to a Flathead 8?
is it a adapter bellhousing or a matter of hole drilling??
thanks

 

Early or late style bellhousing pattern?

 

I have no idea? lets say either?

 

Well for the early style bell you have two choices. They both use an Offy Flathead to Chevy trans adapter, which can be bought from Speedway for $200. The only difference is what kind of clutch fork it will use. There's one adapter that uses a 32-48 Ford clutch fork and one that use a more modern style Chevy fork.

Here's a link for the style using the Ford fork.

http://www.vanpeltsales.com/FH_web/1939ford-project-restoration-2.htm

For the late style engine you can use either of the two clutch fork setups for the early bell along with another adapter betwween the engine and the Offy adapter. Either an aftermarket or stock Ford truck adapter (some are stamped steel, others are cast iron.

 

Before I go shelling out the big bucks for a kit, does anyone know what's involved in using the stock steel flathead bellhousing and re-drilling it for the S-10 5-speed?

I have a deep steel bellhousing I thought was from a '50 Ford pickup but it's not deep enough and doesn't provide enough surface area to drill for all four transmission bolt holes. Any advice or photos are greatly appreciated, thanks!

If all else fails, any thoughts on which kit is better, Speedway or Cornhusker or ?

 

I've looked into it and the kit from flat-o.com seems a bit better deal. The cornhuskers is a little expensive. The speedway kit is just an offy tranny adapter to adapt any gm manual transmission with that bolt pattern. The adapter or tranny will have to be modified cause the T-5 uses metric bolts to bolt up the adapter is really for a muncie or something.