Tremac 5-speed

[RBeckman]

Originally Posted by piette

Damn Ric this sucks. I will say though, for all the trouble you are having, once you get it going you will not regret it at all. I cruise down the highway in my car at 1800-1900 rpms no problem. I love it, its so much quieter and the engine just isnt taking the beating winding out 3500 rpms's constantly like that. Plus I can get over 18 mpg out of my car, and my engine makes 686 horsepower, so thats not so bad. The TKO600 has made my car a real drivable car now, and for that all the trouble was well worth it.

Jeff

Jeff, thanks for the postive words ...I really need that about now. Thanks again.

[Hank70SS]

You're close Ric, not quite June yet so you'll be good to go for the summer season. Lynda's working tomorrow, come on down and we can go over to Baker's together. Maybe she'll get done early and we can all go. I have plenty of chairs, you just need to get your butt here. Give me a call if you're interested.

[RBeckman]

Hank, I just seen this tonight, I spend the day with Leslie pulling weeds, shopping and planting all the flowers in the pots and powerwashed the deck so I did not get a chance to get to Bakers today as I was planning. Thanks for the offer, if I would have seen it earlier I would have made time to get there.

I have not touched the car all weekend and that is my plan today......It's funny Leslie walk by it today and looked at it and said "what were you thinking" since I still have the interior, heater, headers, transmission, inter fender wells, removed from the car. Tomorrow is removing the head bolts and grinding them down and installing the headers and starter. Hope you had fun today.

[RBeckman]

Got the new 014" dowel pins yesterday and installed them today and got the the bell housing to within 001" after removing and installing and adjusting about 5 times...could not get it any better than that..it's almost perfect. Now to put everything back together...it's going to take me forever.

[Hank70SS]

Supposed to rain off and on all day so you have nothing better to do. Get 'er done, it's June.

[RBeckman]

Well started back on it today since I have not touched it since last Sat as I could not stand the thought of even crawling back under the car. Got the headers installed (Yes Hank I did grind the heads bolts down so the headers do not hit..thanks for the tip) and got the clutch and bellhousing put back on with the starter.


The part I dread the most is getting that beast of transmission installed and that is Saturdays project after that is installed, things should go pretty good I'm hoping.

[piette]

So hows the progress Ric, did you get the transmission done? Just curious if you have had the joy of driving that new TKO yet.

Jeff