A friend of mine is in the ring gear business, and is considering tooling up to prodice the later automatic flex plate and ring gear.. He asked me to poll the Y Block crowd to get a feel on how many he might be able to sell.. I told him I thought he could sell 100 with no problem.
Probably be around 100 bucks..

Opinions?

Looks good to me


56 Vic, B'Ville 200 MPH Club Member, So Cal.

Royce.  Gary Croan has a standing 'Wanted' ad in the Classified section of Y-Block Magazine and the bi-monthly Classic Thunderbird Club International publication Early Bird Magazine seeking  flexplates and ring gears for Y-block engines.  His ads state that he'll buy as many as you can supply.

Contact Gary at
garycroan@gmail.com OR phone him at 949-722-1122 OR write him at 396 E. 21st Street Box 9, Costa Mesa, CA  92627

Hope this helps.  


NoShortcuts
a.k.a. Charlie Brown
near Syracuse, New York

I assume this is the 1958 COM flex plate with the ring gear on the flex plate. Which torque convertors would be used? Can you explain the need for this item? Thanks Pete  

The later flex plates are very hard to come by. They will accept a converter from a later COM, FMX, or a C-4. They are useful when converting the older air cooled tranny with the ring gear on the converter to a C-4 or a FMX

I could use one that will work with a FMX convertor.


Butchering up everything I can get my hands on in Dayton Ohio

Are 57 flex plates the same, if so i have one.

57's are different, at least in the Birds.


54 Victoria 312;  48 Ford Conv 302, 56 Bird 312
Forever Ford
Midland Park, NJ

Don't know, but I thought Croan was using at least some of the flex plates for Y-Block to AOD conversions.. No?


Paul