George Lendich wrote:

Paul,
Good news and bad news.

The good news is the bell housing will cost about $150.00.
although this is yet to be confirmed and won't be confirmed until I do one.

Other good news is that the auto flexplate will fit with some machining.
The bad news is that it will need some machining for the auto flexplate.
The other good news is that it won't need to be machined for the manual ring gear.

Because of the size of the auto flexplate 320mm Diameter
(please check that your is the same diameter) there is little room between it and the bolt holes.
180 mm centre to centre for the odd one out.
182 mm centre to centre for the remainder
160 radius for the Auto flexplate
20 -22mm remaining

2mm for clearance of the flexplate to the inside bell housing wall
6mm for wall thickness
12 mm for radius of the bolt head
I.E. 20 mm

The bellhousing wall has a sloped wall surface about 4mm in 80mm or 2mm in 40mm where the ring gear travels. This taper is need
for sand casting.

So you can see this is very tight indeed. What will need machining is the inside bell-housing (from 9mm to 6mm or a little
less). I made the housing 9mm thick in this area as I am using a manual ring gear on aluminium flywheel (similar to
the Ross) and wanted to beef-up this area as it seemed thin at 6mm. With the manual ring gear there is plenty of room.

The area needing machining is a small area within the arc of the bellhousing. A straight cut on mill -in an arc would do the
job.
How is that sounding Paul,
George (down under)

The price is great. I assume that is US dollars.

Without a drawing or a lot more pictures it is hard for me to visualize.
The vast majority of us here in the States are using the auto tx flex plate
and ring gear.

Paul Lamar
 
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