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I am posting this in this forum also..in case someone here knows something and doesn't read the SS forum...
Ok I need some help. We are just getting walked away from out of every corner. We are running a saginaw 3 speed that is supposed to be 1.68 in 2nd gear. We run a 3.74 rear end. Which puts us at 6.26 total. This is the same gear every guy running up front runs..but we have no pull off the corners. We thought it had to be in the motor so we changed everything you can think of. The motor runs great and pulls hard. Everyone behind us at the start of each race is saying it has to be something wrong with your gearing, we can hear your motor spinning up but it seems like it is in your gear. So I pulled the tranny out and when i spin the input shaft one revolution, the output shaft will spin roughly between 1/2 and 3/4 of a turn. That is correct for a 1.68 right? So i pulled the side cover and the gear cluster has 21 and 14 teeth on each gear for 2nd gear. Is that how many it is supposed to have? Did a previous owner possibly change something? The casting numbers off the side cover are GM53919365..and the number on the plate below the cover is s8m19. Do I actually have a different tranny and I'm just a retard for thinking it is a saginaw? At this point I dont know what else we can do aside from putting a higher ration tranny in it. We run a 3/8 mile supposed to be turning 6800ish. Lets hear it guys, I promise you won't hurt my feelings by giving any advice you can think of. Sorry for the crazy long post..just aggravated at this point.
Clark #6
Ok I need some help. We are just getting walked away from out of every corner. We are running a saginaw 3 speed that is supposed to be 1.68 in 2nd gear. We run a 3.74 rear end. Which puts us at 6.26 total. This is the same gear every guy running up front runs..but we have no pull off the corners. We thought it had to be in the motor so we changed everything you can think of. The motor runs great and pulls hard. Everyone behind us at the start of each race is saying it has to be something wrong with your gearing, we can hear your motor spinning up but it seems like it is in your gear. So I pulled the tranny out and when i spin the input shaft one revolution, the output shaft will spin roughly between 1/2 and 3/4 of a turn. That is correct for a 1.68 right? So i pulled the side cover and the gear cluster has 21 and 14 teeth on each gear for 2nd gear. Is that how many it is supposed to have? Did a previous owner possibly change something? The casting numbers off the side cover are GM53919365..and the number on the plate below the cover is s8m19. Do I actually have a different tranny and I'm just a retard for thinking it is a saginaw? At this point I dont know what else we can do aside from putting a higher ration tranny in it. We run a 3/8 mile supposed to be turning 6800ish. Lets hear it guys, I promise you won't hurt my feelings by giving any advice you can think of. Sorry for the crazy long post..just aggravated at this point.
Clark #6
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