G'day all, my name is James and I am a new Slant6 enthusiast from Australia. My dad has told me a lot of great stories about his youth when the Slant6 was a real performance icon. I am interested in building up an early Valiant Slant6 and using it for occasional historic track days, and am looking for some information. I have to have the car as original as possible (maintain original transmission type, number of forward gears as well as column shift). I have searched the forums, and found heaps of information, plus it looks you guys really know your stuff! Please forgive any obvious/already answered questions! All this being so, my questions are as follows:
The Australian Valiant I am looking at came originally with the 'A-903' transmission with the somewhat untrackable 2.95 first gear. This gear would be too low to use for all but the tightest corners, which limits me to essentially 2 gears and decreases enjoyment factor somewhat! Are there any of the A903 transmissions (or gear sets) still around that utilise the closer 2.12-1.43-1.00 ratios as found behind the 318 in America? The above being possible, this still presents a problem. The A903 is non-synchro first which increases the likelihood of me mucking up a down-shift and crunching. Is there any way of fitting a synchro out of an A230 or similar (or machining the shaft to accept one as I read you can do on reverse) so that I could use first more readily?I guess what I'm saying is, is there any way to get the tallest possible factory gearing in a 3-speed column all-synchro Chrysler box? (Yes, I want my cake and I want to eat it too
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