Summit or Jegs will have them. It is a Stroud Universal tranny blanket. I have to go look and see what the length of it was. You might be able to put it on with the engine bolted up and the tranny dropped down, but it is better to do it when everything is out of the car. I used the coil pack bolts and the bolts in the back of the head to anchor it down. Then you use the straps and belts to wrtap it around the tranny.
Like I said before I was not worried about heat issues because I have a tranny cooler installed. You might run into problems running this unit on a stock car.
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If it only goes around the bellhousing, I could imagine that the heat would be too bad. think it's possible to remove it without having to take out the tranny?
If you drop the tranny down a couple inches, take the cowl off and everything else off it might be doable in a few patient hours.
For those on of you a budget you can find an expired Stroud Universal blanket on ebay all the time. As long as they are in good condition you can send them to Stroud and have it recertified IF you wanted to.
I looked long and hard for one that would fit around this tranny but was not too wide. I was lucky enough to have a firend that let me test fit a blanket he uses off of his race car before I purchased this piece. I think it was money well spent.
I gave the dimensions of the bellhousing to Stroud today to have one made to cover the bellhousing only (and a couple of 4 inches of Tranny). the one i'm getting is Kevlar. and like DD, I have a tranny cooler so i don't worry quite as much about heat.
I'm surprised there aren't more of these around. But they are a must for anyone with a high HP car.
I gave the dimensions of the bellhousing to Stroud today to have one made to cover the bellhousing only (and a couple of 4 inches of Tranny). the one i'm getting is Kevlar. and like DD, I have a tranny cooler so i don't worry quite as much about heat.
I'm surprised there aren't more of these around. But they are a must for anyone with a high HP car.
JD
Good idea JD. Now if you could only build some horsepower.
I once saw a flywheel/clutch in a big block in a shoebox come apart just at the 60'. it cut both framerails in half and the car bent to the ground in the middle. Driver was lucky...didn't loose anyting but his underwear and car.
Honestly guys I wouldn't trust just a blanket. If you have ever seen the aftermath of a clutch or tranny coming apart you want some solid steel in there.
And you wonder why the big hp cars run titanium bell housings and scatter shields on top of that.
Oh and that was just the clutch disc coming apart that blew up the bell housing. Imagine what it would look like if that 50lb flywheel came apart at 5k rpm.
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