[MAStuart]

Thanks for the replies. The cobra bell housing, at the beginning of this thread, ended up being a no sale at $910, reserve no met.

If I am reading, what you guys have posted, correctly:

1. 5 bolt motors only used 157 tooth flywheels, I always thought that the full sized cars used the large flywheel. For some reason I thought my 63 Galaxie wagon with a 5 bolt 289 used a 164 tooth flywheel. It has been a long time since I have had it apart and I don't know if I actually counted the teeth. Sometime I will have to because the ring gear has some bad spots.

2. If the above is true, I will never find a factory 5 bolt bell housing for the large flywheel?

3. Since the cobra scatter shield is an over the counter part for racing, I always assumed the 5 bolt one would have been made with the dual transmission bolt patterns.

4. Did they ever make cobra lettered bell housings for 164 tooth flywheel?

5. Does anyone know if there was a bell housing that came standard on a 6 bolt motor that has the dual transmission bolt pattern? I thought I had seen them before, but don't know what they were from. Possibly cast iron and from a truck?
Mark