transmission question

[1983stepside]

ok breaking news i just found out last night that a budy of mine wants to sell his bored 30 over 454 to me for 700 bucks i was wondering if some one could tell me a good manual tranny that wont cost millions of dollars around 500 or so would be my max for the trans but it has to be a manual thats what was in the truck and thats what i wanna kepp in the truck thanks for any info

[Captkaos]

For $500 behind a BBC, nothing.  A good Muncie 4 speed from 70's rebuilt is around $700-800.
a F-body T5 won't last.

[Lt.Del]

A good Muncie 4 speed from 70's rebuilt is around $700-800

I should have kept my '70 Firebird with 400 and 4spd muncie and 3.73 posi.  Man that was a great car.  I'd be dead if i kept driving it though.

[eventhorizon66]

I should have kept my '70 Firebird with 400 and 4spd muncie and 3.73 posi.  Man that was a great car.  I'd be dead if i kept driving it though.

Yah, but what a way to go.

[Lt.Del]

Yah, but what a way to go.

 

[the dan]

muncie is the way to go, i got mine wrecked for $50 bucks off my fathers friend, i rebuilt it myself and it has held up, total came to about $300 in parts, but i can find them around for 500-700 bucks rebuilt.

as for linkage dont worry about it, i thought mine wouldnt work, but i bought a hurst competition plus shift kit for it and made my own shifter, it cleared my bench seat with 2 12"s behind it

[1983stepside]

wow wish i could find a muncie for 500-700 bucks around here rebuilt. but my truck before i took it apart was a 250 straight 6, with a saginaw 3 speed on the floor, and i always had problems with the linkage geting stuck in gear or the bolt coming out of the tranny, but my shifter was the 3 speed conversion thatat you get from your local parts store, wasnt anything special, i bet if i had a hurst shifter kit i wouldnt of had thosssse problems, but at time didnt have money for it and it was for show, like im building it now, hey "the dan" do you have a web site or something with the rebuilt muncie id like to have one of them thanks

[the dan]

this is where my rebuild kit came from, and theres no known place, kinda just doing a swap meet run you can pick them up for a decent price, took me a while to find mine