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Reply #20 –
That is a spool Mark Williams I believe.

Re: Axle Ratio on U320

Reply #21 –
My buddies and I had Henry's build a spool for us with ten spline axles to fit the olds.  1.5" axles. 

He asked if we minded that he built a few more.  No problem.

Found out he built 10,000 of them. 

Same as the tow hubs we made up.

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Reply #22 –
Chuck and Bob, are you talking about Henry's Machine Shop in L.A.

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Reply #23 –
I'm sure Bob is. I didn't use him, Had Cooks machine make up some axles in the early 70's

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Reply #24 –
Cook?  "Mumbles?".  Old buddy from Qualifiers ll drag race car club. 50 years ago.  Scary.  Mert Littlefield and don cook did the motormounts and dropped in my 427 engine into my 58 corvette in cooks driveway.  In Trade for a small block intake manifold and $40. 

We drew the spool setup in the orbit coffee shop in Long Beach then took it to Henry's to machine it. 

Same as the tow hubs.  Had to be careful as with the tow hubs on the rear the car rolled if unhooked from the tow bar. 

Sorry for the hijack.  Went to a 3.08 ratio rear with the big block.

30moh per 1,000 rpm in fourth.  Over 200 wound out.

Re: Axle Ratio on U320

Reply #25 –
I put a 327 with a Chevy truck 3 speed in a 3.4 Jaguar sedan back in the mid 1960's. The engine destroyed the rear end so Henry's narrowed an Olds rear end for me. Nice job. Then it started tearing out all the body spot welds.

The hood had louvers in it and when racing at night, the AFB would go lean, backfire and blow huge flames through the louver and onto the windshield.

Henry's did take their time getting things done.

I used a LB lawyer to get the single entry bonds to import the cars into LA/LB and spent quite a few times in the Orbit. Norm's too.

Pierce