I spent about two hours last night reading the Pumpkn8tr build from end to end. It make me jazzed to get my 80 Malibu wagon going again. It then made me bummed when I realized how much money and work is ahead. There were brief glimmers of selling it. I have 7 car/truck projects in various states of taken apart, and I used up a perfectly good wrenching weekend building a fence and gate to keep out the zoning inspectors.
The Forum has once again hooked me up and I have a GN 8.5 in the mail. That means I have a 3.73 Auburn posi under the wrong car again (spent a long weekend this fall exchanging them between the coupe and wagon...)
I have two 700R4 cores in the shed, with about $1000 in rebuild to make one work (opening an automatic is beyond my toolbox and family obligations). A 200-4R would make more sense with a 3.73 rear (past experience), having ~2.42 1st and 0.67 OD (but I have no core - more money).
I also have a Camaro WC T5 in the garage, with 2.95/0.63 gears in boxes, may be two weekends or $750 to make a complete unit. I have all the pedals, linkage, 606 bellhousing, 10.5" flywheel, etc. to go manual. While these do not have great reputation, I prefer rowing the gears.
If I were offer the car for sale on the Forum, which configuration would result in the higher return on my investment, according to all you potentially interested wagon buyers out there?
The Forum has once again hooked me up and I have a GN 8.5 in the mail. That means I have a 3.73 Auburn posi under the wrong car again (spent a long weekend this fall exchanging them between the coupe and wagon...)
I have two 700R4 cores in the shed, with about $1000 in rebuild to make one work (opening an automatic is beyond my toolbox and family obligations). A 200-4R would make more sense with a 3.73 rear (past experience), having ~2.42 1st and 0.67 OD (but I have no core - more money).
I also have a Camaro WC T5 in the garage, with 2.95/0.63 gears in boxes, may be two weekends or $750 to make a complete unit. I have all the pedals, linkage, 606 bellhousing, 10.5" flywheel, etc. to go manual. While these do not have great reputation, I prefer rowing the gears.
If I were offer the car for sale on the Forum, which configuration would result in the higher return on my investment, according to all you potentially interested wagon buyers out there?