Getting ready to tear the timing cover off and ditch the stock cam in favor of one significantly larger. I'd estimate a 50HP gain N/A and somewhere in the range of 100HP in my case given the...

MGW shifter showed up. Damn it looks like a nice piece.


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Thanks Hog!

I intend to get some driving vids up soon!! Between work and other projects, plus having to build up this T56 frankenstein hybrid I've been pretty busy. Those older acceleration videos...

Okay........ I know everyone has just been on the edge of their seat to see what all the fuss is about............

Well here it is....... The turbocharged T56 towtruck walkaround video. Rambletron...

Well I got the "new" frankenstein hybrid T56 back together and drove around last night.

Some observations:

Shift quality is absolutely amazing with everything all freshened up inside (bronze...

:laugh: Reminds me of one of my college roommates. He is a mechanical engineer. Every time I introduce him I say: "this is Daniel, he's an engineer............... but we like him anyways" hahaha.
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I found this talking about how preload is gaining favor over endplay:...

Yeah. It just seems to me that they want the end user to have sense enough to know what they're dealing with more than anything. They're not saying Yes or No one way or another but just "might be...

I found this and thought it an interesting read.

It is a failure analysis from SKF. These are excerpts from the "Limits of acceptability"

Abrasive wear:
"Wear that results in a mirror finish...

And this is to both of those statements listed above..... And?????? So what???????? Don't take this personal and go ape shit again I'm just saying. I do what works for me. I don't care much about...

I know what you mean lionel. All I was trying to say is that based upon my experience, I would make a personal judgment call saying "hey this bearing is certainly not brand new any more, but I...

For me, forums are for two principle reasons. To help others learn when and where I can, and to learn myself.

Years ago, me and a handful of other guys were some of the first, if not THE first to...

I'm not going to lie to you.......... I get a kick out of getting him so flustered.




Yep, I just thought it was pretty cool that a trans that has had the shit beaten out of it and otherwise...

Okay now I just feel bad…………

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If I could count?!?! There you go projecting again lionel-hun! It looks like it is in fact YOU who cannot count! BWAAAAHH-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Seriously, STOPIT! You got...

Ok LOL

It's hilarious how you project your own flaws on others LOL. You're the one who came in here and started name calling, don't you remember? I use a little sarcasm and tongue in cheek satire...

Nope, it is you who should try again. When I said normal wear, I think you missed the fact that this bearing is original to a gearbox that started off as an LT1 box, circa 1995. It has likely never...

It's stained. Not discolored from heat.

These social forums provide a useful function. They let these poor people who would otherwise have no voice sound off, and feel important. All the while...

Looks like lionelhutz wandered off from camp and forgot to take her meds again.

I don't think it would be bad on the street. There are guys on tech who are running them and all the ones I've read about say that they would never have a synchronized box again after going that...

No one was talking to you. You may now resume jacking off and wishing you had a T56.

If you tackled that 5 speed FWD I'm sure the T56 would be cake for you. I have no FWD experience but I'm thinking it would be a bit more challenging. Yeah the main thing I wanted was a 32 spline...

The T56 is really quite easy to navigate around once you're in there. I think the gurus on the mountain who came in here years ago talking shit are either as dumb as I think they are, or they missed...

4+ years later..... I finally had to take the T56 out to take it apart. But not for any reason related to towing with it, which many internet "experts" say you simply cannot do. The stock stamped...

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