Thread: Torqueflite trans wanted

Originally Posted by Brian Hjelm

I have a good TorqueFlite in the shed which bolts up to a 265. SAE No.3 bell housing. Anyway I can weld and machine a RR TF to fit. no problem with an adequate sized lathe and/or milling machine. Could probably transfer the back end and transfer case of an RR TF to the TF I have. Need to look at this. Adaption is a minor fitting and turning and welding problem. Like to keep the powertrain Chrysler as the TF is bullet proof, the 265 is the same and can easily be tweaked to a trafficable 250+hp.

Open the bonnet and show it is a blue Holden with the appropriate stickers on the rocker cover. most people could not tell the difference. The Hemi 6 is only 1/4" longer than a red holden in the block casting. Qld. Transport officers can't tell them apart. Put one in a Series III wagon long ago for a friend when the Hemi was not an approved modification. Painted it Holden Engine Red with 186 stickers and number from a scrapped block and registered it as a Holden conversion.

So long as you know the housing ARE diffrent thats fine

You know a "smart" piggy, will be able to tell the difference between a 265 and a holden time bomb the 265 will get up and go

If you transfer the extension housing, the motor will be on a slant, not really a drama, but not ideal

I can't be sure if mine is a tf but since they came out as a tf auto in 82 I just assumed it was.

Originally Posted by locorr

I can't be sure if mine is a tf but since they came out as a tf auto in 82 I just assumed it was.

Your VIN should tell you what your 1982 2 door was originally it will be something like. SALLHAEV1(or 3 for RHD auto)AA(or F for CKD Australian assembly)then the serial number.

If it were an after-market or retrofit you would need to check (at least visually) in around 1981-82 2 Door RRs were being sold in Oz with an after-market conversion using the BW35 auto and a shortened LT95 (the transfer case only) I believe it was only in the 4 doors (in Oz) where the automatics were a factory unit.

I know that the vehicles built late in 1984 had the TF727/LT230 or the LT77/LT230 (5 speed manual). How much earlier they went I don't know as during the 1982-84 period I had a 1980 2 door manual where there was no factory auto option and then my current 10/84 build 1985 model which had the TF727 as a factory fitting.

Diana

Thanks, everybody, for their input. The project is now on hold, possibly abandoned. I was negotiating with the father of the owner of the project vehicle. The LR has been in a carport at father's house in Brisbane for almost 10 years. The owner lives in Proserpine-Airlie Beach area and has shown little or no interest in the car for years even when father has suggested he move it up there. Father contacted him to say he has an offer of $800 for the car and it is going. He (owner) now claims he wants not a dollar less than $2000 and "can get that all day up here." He says he is going to come and get it and take it up to Proserpine. We shall see. Car has a thick layer of storage dirt, flat tyes, wont start, has no brakes.

If anybody does have a torqueflite trans. Please PM me!!!!!

Justin (Wollapit85) has one he is selling.

Needs a Rebuild thou.

Project cancelled unless I find another vehicle at the right price. The owner had the SIII picked up from his father's place this week. In the meantime I have a Chrysler 265 and a TorqueFlite waiting for a new home. A couple of years ago I was looking at a Datsun 260Z but the car was found to be so full of rust in the frame as to be unusable, parts or scrap only. Been stored in the open long time with grass up above the door sills. Pity, as the interior was near perfect.

Originally Posted by locorr

I can't be sure if mine is a tf but since they came out as a tf auto in 82 I just assumed it was.

TF didnt come till 83 so most likely a BW or Ford c4/c9. TF has a T bar type shift lock where as the BW and Ford have a chrome shifter with the lock button in the T handle.