want to know what manuel transmissions will fit

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  1. bartikus

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    i would just like to know what manual transmisisons will fit into a comet/mav beacuse if i'm going to put in a 351 w i sould just go ahead and put in the manual trany so what can i pull them out of and what will fit please can some one tell me
     
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    3 speed and 4 speed toploader

    You can also make 5 speeds fit, but it takes a lot more work.
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    Corbin also the top loader has about three different placements for the shifter on the tail. Which one is a direct replacement for a mav. This one is a three sp. in the floor
     
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    If the question is which toploader has the absolute best location for the hole of the shifter? All ,will require some minimal trimming of the existing hole. Mine I had to trim so little nobody would ever know. Dennis Martin has a different toploader in his than mine. We will see how much he had to trim if any.
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    I have one of those transmission humps. My shifter came up in the stock location.
     
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    5 speed tranny

    we took the 5 speed out of a 88 thunderbird turbo coupe and bolted it to the 302. trimming on the hump was minimal, had to do a little work on tranny mount
    but it works...Jim
     
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    I found my toploader at a swap meet with a bellhousing. It was a ford bellhousing and a late 60's fairlane(?) four speed. Either way, it bolted up, so there she sits. My C4 crossmember even worked (yeah, that was wierd). All I had to do was cut a hole in the floor. And then I self taught myself about the crazy z-bar invention and found all the parts.

    Hope this helps.
     
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    Thats one good thing about Fords. My Sprint went from a 200- 6 cyl w/ 3spd, to a 302 w/c4 (very temporarily), to a 302 w/T10 4 speed, and finally to a 302 w/ toploader 4 speed. They all bolted up to the stock locations and the original drive shaft fit all of them. Back in the day I took my 57 Fairlane 500 and went from a 292 auto to a 390 4 speed and it all bolted right in too.
     
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    Back in the day

    was that before or after you upgraded the wheels from square ones to round ones?

    har har...

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    I hope we get some dry roads soon so I can take mine out.
     
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    I wonder which car is more commen to find the a 4 speed in. was there an f-100 from the 70's?
     
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    The 65-73 Mustang is the easiest car to find 4 speeds in and they are very hard to find. Mostly you can find them at swap meets and on ebay from time to time. Unless your building serious hp, I'd consider the T5. Overdrive is real nice for the street. As far as I can remember, (and that aint saying much), no 70's truck came fro the factory with a toploader. Now, there is one that looks like a toploader, made in 77, that did come in trucks, but it is just a 3 speed with an overdrive.

    Here's a good page for toploader information:

    http://www.5speeds.com/toploader.html

    Here's one for T5's:

    http://www.fordmuscle.com/archives/2000/09/t5swap/index.shtml
     
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