newbie needing some help with ford 351c please.

[adamshaw3]

how do every one. just new to this kit car building and i needing a little help.
i'm building a pilgrim sumo, and have a good 351 cleveland to go in,
problem is i need a manual gearbox and bell-housing to suit. i've read that people put a getrag box on them,
but what is the getrag box from and where do i get a bell-housing.

i'd be grateful of any help, and i'm also open to other suggestions.

cheers, adam.

[singlecoil]

The getrag box is probably best sourced from the manual Jaguar XJS, though I believe it also features in some BMW cars. If you would consider an auto with full manual control (I would), Real Steel do them.

Edited by singlecoil on Wednesday 7th July 20:25

[pilotea]

adamshaw3 said:

how do every one. just new to this kit car building and i needing a little help.
i'm building a pilgrim sumo, and have a good 351 cleveland to go in,
problem is i need a manual gearbox and bell-housing to suit. i've read that people put a getrag box on them,
but what is the getrag box from and where do i get a bell-housing.

i'd be grateful of any help, and i'm also open to other suggestions.

cheers, adam.

before investing a lot of money in the cleveland make sure you got the 4 bolt mains and have done the oil canals/high pressure pump mods, the cleveland have a terrible reputation for throwing a rod (been there...)

What could be a better option is to find a 302 block and modify the heads to fit (called a Boss 302), much more reliable and a slightly lighter and revs much higher.

Gearbox could be a ford T10, difficult to find but it should be possible. As far as i recall, clevelands were only used from 1970-73 (74 was a 400M which is not the same), so there isn't a lot of them around (a lot have died as well, i killed one :-))