Hey guys.

My cast iron bellhousing is currently mounted on my truck, so I can't weigh it, but I know it's a heavy bugger. It's a manual by the way.

Do any of you guys know what one of these weighs? Or by chance have one laying around you could throw on a scale?

Thanks,

-Scouder

 

I never knew there was a cast iron bell housing.

I always thought that they were cast aluminum.

Learn something new everyday.

I know my scattershield weighs a bit more than my old housing.

BTW; great looking engine in your gallery .

 

its about 65 lbs.

 

ford390gashog, so there is a cast iron housing?

65lbs.? Almost the same weight as the cast iron manifold.

 

yep, the FE's only had cast iron bellhousings , but i think cars may have had a aluminum one. 65lbs is close with the clutch and flywheel you are looking at 100 lbs.

 

Thank you Gentlemen. It would appear that by putting in the C4 I will be able to remove about 100lbs from the truck. Including the flywheel, bell, clutch, linkages, pedal and tranny, the NP435 I have weighs in at about 260lbs. I have been told that the C4 with converter and bell will weigh about 150lbs. Any way you stack it, there is alot of weight to be saved.

-Scouder

 

the NP 435 weighs 150 lbs i thought? but a c-4 is way lighter. not even 150 more like 120 i can pick one up and carry it under my arm it is so small. but where are you going to find a c-4 made for a FE?

 

If heard of a few C-4 trans mated up to an FE, but not real common.

Scouder, why not use a C-6.

Maybe a little heavier, but also a stronger trans.

 

the c-6 uses more power.

 

Do you think an FE big block will notice?

 

nope not really. i have one in mine it is bullet proof 30 years old untouched and still going strong, it needed a new t/c last year and the band needed to be tightened.

 

There are aluminum bellhousings sold on ebay for the FE to C4 conversion. I think they are like $395. All car bellhousings were iron also. The only other aluminum bells I know of were on some of the Tbolts and LW Galaxies and made by RC.

G.

 

C4's have a removable bellhousing? i thought they were like a c-6 non removable. learn something new every day.

 

I see many evil minds are still up and thinking this time of the night. I may be wrong but the bell housing felt around 55# and the 435 as 95#. It's been 7 years since the last clutch job, now have a C-6.
.....=o&o>.....

 

thinking? nope that part went to sleep without me. the np 435 i have here with pto is a beast and is about 150 .maybe i am off on the bellhousing, i compared it to a 55 lb bag of chicken feed. i held the bellhousing in one hand and bag in the other. the bell housing felt heavier. now thats a redneck scale.