v6 to 350 swap, Transmission?

[jaustin612]

Hey guys, hows it going. I'm gonna start off to say I'm a beginner with all this stuff, learning as I go.

Off the top, you all have some beautiful rides, real nice, mine was sitting for a long time, so there's a lot of work to be done. Anyways,I have this 83 cutlass that I recently decided to gut out and put some work into, I gutted out the v6 and transmission out of it without a problem, and I have the 350 thats going into it, but no transmission yet.

My question is, when I called up some junkyards to ask about the th350, they all asked what size, short tail, long tail, something like that.

What size am I going to need, I didn't even know there were different sizes with the transmission.

My apologies if its a dumb question, I'm just confused with it.

Thanks

 

[outsider_27]

You are going to need a short tail transmission. If you get a long tail you would need to shorten the driveshaft. And I think you probably had a metric TH200 in it before, so a TH350 with a short tail will be a direct replacement with no mods.

 

[jaustin612]

alright cool, so I would be able to use the driveshaft I already have, scratch one thing off the list of stuff I gotta buy.

Thanks man

Oh, here another question. The car was hooked up with some 100 spoke rims, with the spike in the middle. I want to un-cholo this ride, so tried taking em off today. I used the round tool to unscrew the center of the rim, but once I got em off I couldn't find any bolts to unscrew to take the sh*t off!

Anyone ever messed with those kinds of rims before?

 

[yourownself]

that probably is held on by the center cap, which should have some indication as to which way is to tighten and which way is to loosen.

 

[Blake442]

If it's a dayton or other true knock off, you'll knock off the center, remove the wheel, and then you can unbolt the hub adapter.

 

[jaustin612]

Cool, thanks for the help guys, I thought that might be what it was, that that was all that was holding it in place.

 

[beeterolds]

My 83 cutlass came stock with a th350c.. even tho it was a V6.. maybe urs was the same.. id run that.. its fairly strong in stock form