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posted on December 5th, 2005 at 09:42 PM
1200 motor on 1500 swinger?


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after finding out my motor is a 1200 and not a 1300 as i was led to beleive by seller( checked the motor has rebuilt original motor) im after a little more top end speed
someone sugested 1500 gearbox?

i know nose cone has to be swapped to earlyer and axles swapped to shorter byt what else ?
i am also going 12volt

in the middle of resto
the motor is in real good nick
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posted on December 5th, 2005 at 09:44 PM



wont u lose quite a bit of bottom end power by using the 1500 box?



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posted on December 6th, 2005 at 10:26 AM



i've done it and it's not fun. You lose all torque (what little there is) and accelleration, but your top speed does increase. I was able to do 130 easy but any sort of a hill or incline would drop me back to 90 or 80.



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posted on December 6th, 2005 at 12:12 PM



right so not worth the hassle
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