Ok, I thought I posted about this but couldn't find the thread. If I did, I'm sorry to post it again.

I have a buddy with a 51 that has a 55 passenger car rear (with 3.70 gears I believe) and a 59ish 235 that is stock.

It now has a compound low 4 speed.

He wants to be able to drive it down the freeway at 65. Right now it is winding it's poor guts out and we want to do something to raise the overall gear ratio.

Would the best bet be a T-5 and if it is is there a thread on installing one?

Or would simply changing the rear end to a 3.00 or something be better. I am thinking the poor little six won't have the power to pull a sick dog out of an outhouse. Not unless you use the first gear in daily driving which would be ridiculas being it has no synchros.

What are your thoughts?

Brian

1948 Chevy Pickup
Chopped and sectioned
owned since 1974 when I was 15.