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DIY: GM th350 swap and Hurst Pistol-Grip Shifter Install

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Old 04-20-10, 08:35 PM
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Thanks Nelle and no worries about being a light weight here, I am kinda looking forward to that part. My break of resuming this is gonna be even longer then I was hoping :/ The Torque Converter is gonna be like 700 and I emptied my bank account out the last 2 weeks, uhh! >_<
Old 04-21-10, 03:29 PM
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Oh yeah- one other thing...I went with a cheap brand flexible dipstick and had to scrap it and buy a Lokar. Save yourself the trouble and go Lokar the first time. What converter did you decide to go with?
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how come you had to scrap the dip stick, i did the same. Just a dip stick? Still deciding... anywhere from 5300 ro 6000 stall.
Old 04-21-10, 08:23 PM
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Woohoo way to go with a damn nasty stall! You certainly aren't here to f spiders!I have a Precision Industries and it's been good to me- I was happy with my stall- it came in under the 4000 I had it flashed to by like 200rpm. The damn dipstick...the way it sat at the base was absolute crap and the actual flexy-part inside used to hang up going in. Very freaking annoying.

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hmm, I'll have to send you a picture of the one I got, mine actually seems to be a direct replica of the lokar.
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Resuming this beast! Picked up a DaveH 5500 Stall Torque Converter.
Old 05-09-10, 08:27 PM
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Got the Torque Converter 2 days ago and finally had some time to work on the sc.
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progress that was made, Cut the tabs off each side and leveled the top down hopefully to make it easier to fit into the engine bay, I also picked up all the hardware needs for the adapters but the hardware store failed to carry a sufficent amount of the size needed. So until Tomorrow or Tuesday I am a little paused.
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Red Locktite all bolts that are on the torque converter adapter and 61 ft lbs torque bolts are m12 x 1.25 and the smaller are m10x1.25 i believe Blue locktite all others.

I was unsure of the torque specs on the torque converter to adapter bolts so I just tightened them by hand and used Red Locktite.

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Hurst Shifter Adapters mounted

In the lower left you can see where there will be some denting of the engine bay to make it fit right.
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seems like you mildly have to pound the well. more pics tomorrow, seems to be a tight fit for the tunnel , have yet to check it out.
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trans mount adapter in action. Had to remove Hurst stuff on trans more tomorrow.
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this sunday i will get more pics up, sorry last sunday I couldn't find my camera. This is from 2 weeks ago sunday, measuring for driveshaft.

I just bought this as well, differential adapter from driftmotion.com
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from 2 weeks ago again, cut a hole in the car for the hurst shifter adapter. Gonna be covering up with sheet metal.
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Drift Motion driveshaft adapter along with a new trans filter and gasket
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Trans Lines made and ran all with 2 75 degree 6an off of trans then ss braided 6an to the Greddy Grex cooler 2 90 degree 6an.


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wats up chris? I'll have to post a pic up somewhere. you ready to take yours to the track yet??


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