t56 questions????

[racer_99]

I currently have a lt1 t56 in my 68 camaro with a 1st gen 415 sbc but have a few questions to make it right. I have a stock clutch out of a 95 camaro. A flywheel made thicker by my machine shop and an aftermarket hydraulic clutch I had laying around. My questions are do they make a flywheel I can buy for this application? EIther so I can put a normal 1st gen sbc clutch behind it instead of the lt1 clutch. SOmething not real heavy preferably. Also a different bellhousing so I can run the 1st gen clutch. Help me out guys thanks

[Mkelcy]

Call the McLeod tech line and tell them what you want to do. You can also swap the LT1 input shaft for an LS1 input shaft and then use the McLeod adapter kit with any standard Chevy bellhousing, flywheel and clutch.

[BLUE72CAMARO]

Yeah you can change the trans to an ls1 input as stated above and that is going to equal quite a bit of $$$

or

You can get a flywheel and clutch kit that is made to adapt the lt1 to the sbc, which is what I did except mine is going on a big block. I went with a street twin setup from mcleod, it will hold more power than my car will ever make.

[John S]

You can save yourself some trouble by checking out the weir racing prodocts setup. their bellhousing and hydraulic clutch setup allow almost any pusher style clutch setup for the T56

[zuess4u]

Or you can buy a 153 toothed flywheel, lightened if you want. Remoove the retainer bearing from the trans, have it machined up to a 4 speed size retainer bearing, .....(I know it sounds crazy)....but remove a quater inch of the input shaft and a quater inch off the pilot bearing....now they will all mate.

The throw out bearing we used is from QuaterMaster.....its the thinnest one we found but there may be others out there.

Weir's stuff is nice.....but he made a comment to our high school project that inspired us to make it work. All we wanted to know is what throw out bearing he was using......he told us to "take a hike and that we would never get this mate to work".....

Thats all the inspiration we needed....Thanks Bob Weir.

[zuess4u]

My bad...wasnt paying attention to the LS1 and LT1.... not sure if the input shaft diameters are the same or not...or what the reason is for swaping the two shafts......

and yes we did this before McLeod came out with the smaller diameter throw out bearing....and I think its around 400.00.