[james schaechter]

I have a QT in our Nova and have run soft loc, advanced single 10 inch, dual 7 inch and a dual 6.6 Boninfante. They are nice bellhousings. They do make a ton of different models. The only challenge I ever had was that it was about .200 shallower than the older style Lakewood or McLeod bells. When I used the clutch that was spaced off the flywheel and had a thicker disc, I ran the rm-198 spacer and it took care of it all. I also have a steel Browell with the heim joint and billet fork. They are pretty close to the same. The difference I saw is that it was about .100 deeper and the heim joint deal was nice. I had to cut the helm shorter to work with one clutch. It looks like the Browell is scalloped out near the pivot ball mount. The Browell was about 3 lbs heavier than the QT. I have not really bought any new QT stuff since they got bought out by Lakewood.

One thing I noticed, is that jerry Bickel sells a chrome moly foot that you could bolt to the inside if any bell to convert to a billet fork. I bought one, but I haven't switched over yet. I do like the billet fork. Main reason is for the use of a throwout bearing that stays in position when installing the trans. Of course the billet fork, is almost 300 and the bearing will be at least 80 bucks.

They all work. If I had a good QT, I wouldn't change brands just to change brands. In the Superstock car, we now have a 7.5 deep alum bell with a window and it is awesome! Again, it goes way up in price. I think if you were really loaded, you could do an alum for a 142 tooth flywheel and it would fit in a stock tunnel. $$$.