DeTomaso Mailing List: April 1997, Message #107
     



From: MikeLDrew@aol.com

Subject: Re: Gearbox history

Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 05:35:13 -0400 (EDT)



All,



While we've pretty clearly established the differences in the gear ratios

between early Dash-1 boxes and the later Dash-2 boxes, I've also learned that

certain Dash-1 boxes came with the later Dash-2 ratios, but a 5.25 ring and

pinion instead of the 4.22!  I suspect there were only a very few of these,

however.



Also, another quick way to differentiate between a Dash-1 and Dash-2 in the

car; the Dash-2 bellhousing has one business card-sized sight window on the

left side, while the Dash-1 bellhousing has two smaller windows, one on each

side.  Also, down on the bottom right side, the Dash-1 bellhousing is stamped

'DeTomaso' while the Dash-2 bellhousing is unmarked.



Also also, Jack has a couple of cases floating around his garage, and the

Dash-2 case is considerably stronger.  It features much beefier internal

webbing, and seems to be generally better thought-out.



I spent most of this evening sweeping and cleaning up parts and junk around

my Pantera, but did get in it and start it up just to listen to the engine

for a few minutes.  Sigh.  Now it's 2:25 a.m., and I'm babbling on about

totally trivial Pantera geek stuff.  I gotta get my car back on the road so I

can start talking about knowledge gained first-hand like most of you guys!



Mike