Hi folks,
As I've been trouble shooting in the past while, including calls to Cali. to the "overdrive builders and other various scenarios to help the majority of us here to help solve a lot of problems with gear challenged cars with 13in. wheels and these ailing Saginaw transmissions, I was contacted by my friend in regards to building up the existing transmissions, to wit, the Saginaw that if it's the first gen style, don't have much strength against power. The aforementioned company, M.S. Racing in Conneticut has a website and I wondered if anyone here knew of them or has even used them. My thoughts were to have my second gen. Saggy rebuilt and according to them, they can beef it up substantially as good as a "rock crusher" with square cut gears. I don't want that particular set up but heavier gears, bushings etc. is a great idea! For $650 bucks U.S. funds, they'll ship this tougher than stock rebuild kit to me way up here and It will also be with a gear ratio change of my choice. My M-20 wide ratio Saginaw has a 3:55 first gear in it and it needs to be changed for obvious reasons (thinking 294 or something) I realize that this is still limited to a top end situation but then there are the usual other tricks like rear gears that I got from a Monza guy here, Harry, and these are available around the globe still. So if the money is a bit tight for most of us, get the Saggy uplifted (pun intended) or even do it yourself along with a rear gear change and keep the stock console and 13 in wheels for a while yet, depending how badly you want to keep it close to original! Then some day down the road change to larger wheels and hubs Anyone know these folks in CT.?