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Hello,my name is Collin,i'm new here!so just wanted to break the ice and say hello 
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american cars have HORSEPOWER,imports are powered by rice.i have a 200.bored .30 over,264h cam.350cfm holley carb.head ported a little.pert.ignition.and 3:55 gears.and a rare 4 speed tranny that i'm debating on.....someone told me the only 4 speed that came in a 200 6.was an English Dagenham???u know anything about those,and is it worth putting in,,,,that extra gear sure would help.
8) say hey collin. instead of the dagenham pos, swap in a T5. you get two extra gears, one is an overdrive, and you get a much stronger tranny, as well as one that has parts that are actually available for it. and dont mind addo, we are as psycho as he is, he is just more vocal about it :rolflmao: :rolflmao::rolflmao::rolflmao:
he is however a great guy to have around.
he is however a great guy to have around.
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Greeting KickinSixer.
Greeting KickinSixer.
In New Zealand, 55-57 Ford Mainlines and Customlines came with autos or awful 3-on-the-tree manuals. We used to soak up imported Aussie assembled Canadian Fords by the boat load if your folks had off-shore funds. The second option was the English Zephyr Six which had a raunchy in-line six which loved headers and triple carbs, and often got fitted with four-speed boxes from 1966-1970 V6 Fords. This was the "Dagenham Dustbin"4-spd trans you have. The engine produced around 125-140 hp net, and 170 lb-ft in a 3000+ pound car.
In Kiwiland, the then common 272/292/312 Y-block had a spline count the same as the Zephyr 4-speed transmission used in the English V6 2.5/3.0 Ford Zephyrs/Zodiacs. So many back-yard hot-rodders used the trans in droves. They were nowhere near as stong as the 3/4-speed Toploaders of the post 68 era, but are OK if lubricated and not abused. Try ATF and look after it.
The US 2600 cc Capris used a puny fourspeed Hummer trans which was similar, but its not a good replacement. The best optin is upgrading, so plan to go T5 or Toploader, but don't get a complex about it. A Y-block didn't take the trans appart, your six shouldn't either. But any trans 37 years old is gonna need some work, so don't spend a sheckle on it apart from keeping it well oiled!
In Kiwiland, the then common 272/292/312 Y-block had a spline count the same as the Zephyr 4-speed transmission used in the English V6 2.5/3.0 Ford Zephyrs/Zodiacs. So many back-yard hot-rodders used the trans in droves. They were nowhere near as stong as the 3/4-speed Toploaders of the post 68 era, but are OK if lubricated and not abused. Try ATF and look after it.
The US 2600 cc Capris used a puny fourspeed Hummer trans which was similar, but its not a good replacement. The best optin is upgrading, so plan to go T5 or Toploader, but don't get a complex about it. A Y-block didn't take the trans appart, your six shouldn't either. But any trans 37 years old is gonna need some work, so don't spend a sheckle on it apart from keeping it well oiled!
The Hummer is a German transmission. It means Lobster....just in case anyone was planning an appearance on Jeopardy........
Any liguistic or etmolgy on Dagenham? Does it mean "Devilled Sausage" in olde English?
My search got this:-
"Dagenham is first mentioned in a charter of Barking Abbey dating from 687 AD. The first Dagenham was almost certainly just a small farmstead, the ham or farm of a man called Daecca."
In short, you gotta be Barking mad to work a Dagenham transmission!
The Celtic or Latin part of my ancestory is at a loss to do any more, so I get the booby prize....lobster
My search got this:-
"Dagenham is first mentioned in a charter of Barking Abbey dating from 687 AD. The first Dagenham was almost certainly just a small farmstead, the ham or farm of a man called Daecca."
In short, you gotta be Barking mad to work a Dagenham transmission!
The Celtic or Latin part of my ancestory is at a loss to do any more, so I get the booby prize....lobster
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and, later tonight on the history channel...the meaning of life.
j/k
man, you guys have forgotten more than I will ever know.
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man, you guys have forgotten more than I will ever know.
:rolflmao: nah, been cancelled. Too many alternative views!
(I add to them...)
If there are answers, I'm pretty sure they don't come from German Hummers or from Dagenham.
Hint: The real trick to being a great Bovine Scattolgist is doing a quick search on the inter-net for related topics, and then just keep on diggin' a deaper and deaper hole for yourself. Pretty soon you'll be daylighting in a Chinamans rice paddy, and people will call you an expert, genius, or, the gran-daddy of them all, a BS-er
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