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G'day, a bloke at work has given me one just wondering if i could get some advice about them and info etc etc he said it was out of a xd or xf its a boarg warner
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Behind a 6 cyl they are a nice reliable strong box. Even behind a 302 they survive well. The 351 variants had different ratios but I'm not sure if they were stronger or not.
If you have the 4 speed bell housing then it will bolt in place of yo
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ive got a 302 in xd and blown 3single rails.go the t5 with sum minor mods(bellhouseing)etc...
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I'm planning to use a Toploader behind a mild 265 Hemi but the prices they're starting to get has me a little conserned so i'm thinking single rail. I assume from the above posts that a single rail is up to the task but is there any diffrence to a Valia |
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OK, A Ford Single rail is nowhere near as strong as a Toploader but does share the same clutch and bellhousing as a small block toploader.
The ford Single rail shares very few parts with the Valiant single rail unfortunately. Firstly the Ford inp |
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Also the last vehicle I drove that had a toploader was a real s h i t due to the crappy external linkages that they are hampered with. The single rail is a much smoother shifting box. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Edited by user Wednesday, 25 June 2008 12:36:44 AM(UTC)
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Thanks for the info Jim. I have priced a bellhousing for the ford box onto hemi (IIRC $450ish). I think i'm better off doing the Ford box in the long run so will stick to the plan but if when the time comes to buy a box that i gotta pay a huge price for a Edited by user Wednesday, 25 June 2008 7:06:26 AM(UTC)
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I'm not sure about the strength but the 351 single rail has different ratio's to the 6 cyl/302 box. As for the top loader I think that most of them are the same except the big block versions which have a very large input shaft. Yes linkages woul Edited by user Wednesday, 25 June 2008 7:14:38 AM(UTC)
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G'day,there are at least 2 different shifters for toploaders,one for falcons and one for cortinas.The cortinas shifter is about 4 inchs further forward than the falcons and generally is alot cheaper to buy.It's not horsepower that kills gearboxs but big t
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