What are good transmission/rearend combinations?
This is very subjective, of course, depending on what you want to do with the car being the biggest factor. For a street-driven car, Robert (twelve_second_vega) recommends: “I favor the Saginaw due to its wide variety of available ratios. I would like to share with you the combination I am using on my Vega, not that it is amazing, but rather an example of compromise. My Chevrolet 302 is a 9.8:1 Compression engine using Stock Iron “993” heads and the GM “Pop-Up” piston. The intake is an Edelbrock #2101 fitted with a Q-Jet that has 76 jets/.051″ Metering Rods, “BH” Secondary Rods and a “B” Hangar. The Hydraulic Camshaft is a mild 467″ 490″ – 225 236 @ .050″ with a 113 L/C. A basic, straightforward engine. I am using Monza Motor Mounts and Manifolds including the factory 1975 V8 Monza “Y” Pipe with (1) 2-1/4″ pipe exiting in the stock location through a single Dyno-Max “S” Turbo Type Muffler. My concern was having an agressive ratio down low, yet still retain good cruise speed and economy
