NEW Bellhousing Ideas?

jeffball610 · Post by **jeffball610** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:20 pm

I just got to thinking about how much of a pain this has been trying to mate my R154 to my 4G64. Then I thought maybe I should just put a Mitsu KM132 behind it. Then as I got to looking at some drawings and how dumb I think egineers are with their fancy integral bellhousings, I had an idea. Why not chop up a KM132 and weld it to an aluminum plate and bolt that to the R154. I can get a tranny for $75 and aluminum might cost about $75. The clutch fork is already in the right place. All I need to do is make a mount to put a hydraulic slave cylinder on there.

All of this came to me in the last day or two and I'm not sure it will work. I also got to checking other Mitsu trannies and saw that the KM145 4x4 tranny mounts to a "4 cylinder" engine. Could this be a 4G63/G54 or other similar block? The pictures I've seen of this tranny, it has a bolt on bellhousing. I'm headed to the junk yard Wednesday to see what I can find. Anyone got any more info that might expedite the process?

Mike · Post by **Mike** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 12:37 am

That'd be the 4x4 tranny used with the G54B and 455D.

jeffball610 · Post by **jeffball610** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 12:08 pm

Not getting to the yard any time too soon. I hate winter.

jeffball610 · Post by **jeffball610** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 5:15 pm

Actually got to the yard yesterday and found about 5 KM132 trannies. Too bad they were all for wide blocks. Anyone in Colorado need one? They're $75 at A1 Auto in Colorado Springs.