Re: Engine, Tach, and Speedster Questions

Posted by johnoder On 2009/1/19 13:53:08

I have not heard of high speed gear sets for other than the '27 and later big cars and the similar vintage Standard Eights, but that does not mean they don't exist.

Since both Packard and 9 inch Ford are "third member" ( variously termed "meat ball" and "pumpkin" by gear heads) rear axles, I wonder how practical it would be to adapt a nine inch 3.25:1 "pumpkin" to the 526 housing. This of course would require some axle spline magic.

Having a retirement machine shop with seriously large equipment, I would not mind playing around with this idea.

Here is a nine inch housing I did that was written up in Street Rodder Magazine in the nineties.

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