Here's an option for the speedo:
http://www.abbott-tach.com/cablex.htm
It's kinda pricy, but maybe not so compared to swapping the trans over to mechanical.
Chuck
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73astregt wrote:first off thanks for the compliment on the car, its appreciated! the car was actually painted sometime in the 90 s, ive been able to trace it back to when ledgendary motor cars in milton ont took it in on trade in 97 im not shure past that when it was painted for shure but it definitly caught my eye when i went to look at it the first time lol! i added the hood scoop and had it painted to match after i bought the car along with a couple other panels, it really needs to be redone as it is getting a lot of chips and scratches over time but it gets driven not trailered so it will. i may be off on the length of that yoke some but it is a fair bit shorter than a th350 yoke so proper engagement is critical to good performance, its been a while but i think there was only about 1.5 to two inches of engagement on the output shaft so as mentioned youll want to make shure your driveshaft is the proper length for your setup with the full weight of the car on the wheels. youll have to research for shure but you can probably use a tail end and output shaft from an earlier non world class trans to cure the speedo issue i picked my trans carefully to avoid that problem, get the world class and be able to bolt up to the monza bell chevy pattern.the gm v8 world class t5 with mechanical speedo was only made for a year or two and is a hard one to find. i had to overbore the four mounting holes in the trans case slightly to match the size of the monza bell mounting bolts and grind a notch in the top cover to be able to adjust the ball stud for the cable clutch fork butr it was all pretty simple really. my first car (74 nova ss) i changed over from standard to auto and back so many times it pretty much had a zipper on it depending on what trans i could find at the time for little or nothing as cash was really really tight then and i needed the car on the road plus at 19 then i really beat the crap out of it lol! you are gonna like the versatility this swap gives you for bottom end and highway cruising just dont put a sticky race tire on it and it will live for a long time! good luck!! p.s one reason i went with the hurst billit plus shifter was that the stock shifter will over shift and bugger the trans, having a shifter with positive stops(adjustable) makes the trans much happier.
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