Thread: 225 Slant six

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I had a 74 dart with a 225 for a while... that car wasn't too fast off the line, but once you got it goin, it hauled azz. I couldn't hurt that thing if I tried

I'm listening, and I am taking notes. I plan to make a grewat 225 out of this. I am thinking of staying with the slant 6 in the future also, No need to redo the steering just to fit a V8 if the slant six will give me a good top end.

One more question, I got the tranny from the 76 aspen also. How do I tell which tranny it is? I haven't dealt with trannies in 18 years since I was in High School auto mech.

Hard to say for sure which one you have, Tim,

My Haynes manual says the A-904 is the most common one used with the sixes and that's probably the one you have. It says that there is a variant known as the A-904LA, and this may be the one with the lock-up converter Terry talks about. The book says that "many 1978 and later" transmissions were equipped with the lock-up converter.

And something else I didn't know... some six cylinder cop-cars and taxis came with an A-727 in them. It isn't too likely that you have one of those, but it would be neat if you did!

Jim

LA is the designation for the small block V8 (like saying Windsor in Fordspeak), so the 904LA would be the V8 version.

This might help Tim; http://carcraft.com/newlook/crc_act/...ans/index.html

hi again,to tell the diference between a 904 and 727 with out having the to along side each other{727 is much bigger than a 904} is the shape of the base pan, on a 904 the pan is square with one corner cut at 45deg angle, on a 727 the pan is also square but under the dip stick the pan is push out is a round shape.but if you want a quick slantsix stick with the 904 it uses less hp to get moving, i have drag with both and everthing being equal the 904 is 2tenth faster

Ok rather than starting a new thread, I figured I would resurrect this one as this question deals with this engine.
Ok what size electric fan should I use with this engine? I am looking at electric as I don't think there will be room for a pump the pulley and a fan between the rad and the slant 6.
What cars would have the donor fan for me? And what all should I take off the donor to make it work?

Tim -

Something occurs to me. In the early sixties Chrysler produced some aluminum slant six blocks. No kidding. I once owned one but I wound up selling it prior to one of my many moves.

Finding one now would be a big challenge, but who knows? Some old clod like me may have picked up one years ago and it may still be over there under a pile of other interesting stuff.

As you would guess, they are (were?) a bunch lighter than their cast iron brothers. They (Chrysler) also made some stock aluminum one-barrel intakes. I actually still have one of those that I converted to accept a two barrel from a 318. (Sorry, it's not for sale).

I just thought I'd pass that by you. If you are interested you might try advertising and/or keeping your eyes open when you are wrecking yard scrounging. They're not too hard to identify.

Jim