Re: [AMC-list] 304 manual transmission circa 71 or 72

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: Jim Blair <carnuck@xxxxxxxxxxx>
" 
" I thought the 290 came in some CJs? The center hole is in the 290 &
" early 304/360 but not the centering ridge that 727s and later STD
" flywheels use to align. 

afaik the only pre-amc power was the hurricane 4 which dated back to
bantam and the late '20s and the buick v6 which had twice the power
and weighed less.  the 290 was gone by the time amc swept them aside
in favor of its own power and added a v8.

that's not to say what anyone else might've done, but i would've
expected jellybean chevy or ford smallblocks or even a buick 350, as
it was used in big jeeps between the [kaiser inspired] nash 327 and
amc v8s, and would take the same tranny and probably mounts as the v6.

ford also used warner trannies in the '50s and '60s, which made
'frankentranny' engine swaps possible and supposedly kickstarted
trans-dapt and the whole engine and tranny adapter business.

btw the buick was the lightest and most compact smallblock v8 in
detroit, a legacy of its ancestry in the aluminum 215.
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