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Originally Posted by IndianaJo
look at the mercedes 617 thread of 4btswaps.com, there are a lot of people doing this and many of them are there. I believe they have determined the 617 is internally balanced, so the flywheel is round, but the expert is there, not me. If your rear end ratio is high enough to use the high rpm of the mercedes effectively, you shouldn't need a bigger clutch. I'm going to use 4.1 or 4.27:1 in my ford f150, but 9" ford rear ends have drag gears available that go all the way to 5.6:1. I'm going to use the mercedes 722 auto transmission and buy a spicer adapter for the driveshaft end. See cell's thread on this site about that.
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Thanks for the suggestion to visit 4btswaps, I will look it up..
I thought about using the stock 4 speed manual initially, and still may do it.. but would like have more of truck transmission in place.. and a nv3550 seems like it is a nice light relatively robust unit... the stock dodge rear gear is a 5.83 to 1.. so maybe I can get away with 4 speed manual for a while..