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texanidiot25 · 06-02-2011, 01:37 AM

GearVenders is really the closest thing you'll get to that setup, it's an add-on overdrive for 3spd autos. However, if you're simply looking to convert your Edsel to overdrive, you're just a modern transmission swap away from it. OD transmissions have been the standard since 80s. Thankfully, with Chevy cars it's as easy as swapping in a 4spd 200R4 or 700R4 from the gang of RWD GM cars and trucks in the 80s, but Ford doesn't have that commonality with engine bolt patterns across their line of cars, so I can't tell you what'll fit the FE motors.

But, there's almost always a solution, and if it came to an adapter plate to put a ford block to a Chevy bolt pattern, you have a fairly cheap solution to a great OD trans.

06-02-2011, 01:37 AM	#12 (permalink)
texanidiot25 Master EcoModder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Cypress, TX Posts: 331 Formula - '96 Firebird Formula/Trans-Am 90 day: 19.31 mpg (US) Thanks: 8 Thanked 31 Times in 18 Posts	GearVenders is really the closest thing you'll get to that setup, it's an add-on overdrive for 3spd autos. However, if you're simply looking to convert your Edsel to overdrive, you're just a modern transmission swap away from it. OD transmissions have been the standard since 80s. Thankfully, with Chevy cars it's as easy as swapping in a 4spd 200R4 or 700R4 from the gang of RWD GM cars and trucks in the 80s, but Ford doesn't have that commonality with engine bolt patterns across their line of cars, so I can't tell you what'll fit the FE motors. But, there's almost always a solution, and if it came to an adapter plate to put a ford block to a Chevy bolt pattern, you have a fairly cheap solution to a great OD trans. __________________ Lets see how far it can go "All I know about music is that not many people ever really hear it. [...] But the man who creates the music is hearing something else, is dealing with the roar rising from the void and imposing order on it as it hits the air. What is evoked in him, then, is of another order, more terrible because it has no words, and triumphant, too, for the same reason. And his triumph, when he triumphs, is ours." -Sonny's Blues