the tooth count on the flexplate is 164. i counted it twice. the code stamped onto the front harmonic balancer is "DOOE-C2", and the code stamped onto the block itself is "D9AE-6015-ED 16". i wish i had gotten the engine from the original car, but it came out of a truck, and the guy that put it in the truck installed it with the double hump oil pan already on it, which means it was a car chassis, cause of the oil pan layout (double sump), and the only cars with a factory 351W in the 70's are LTDs and Crown Vics. SO. i currently have what looks to be a 50oz, 164-tooth flywheel that FITS FINE with the engine and trans, but its out of balance. so what i need is a 28oz, 164-tooth flexplate that will fit with the mid-70s 351W and a mid 80s AOD with the lockup converter.
Im sorry for talking in circles, but i've heard the horror stories of people bolting up the wrong flexplate and the front pump of the AOD is destroyed because the flexplate sticks out too far. When this goes in my AOD will have just been rebuilt, and i dont need to have it go out again over something like having the wrong flexplate. should i call summit or jegs on monday and talk it over with one of their techs? or maybe call TCI or B&M directly? i hate autos too, this would be my first, but the car already came with an auto trans, so i didnt feel like laboring over bolting on brackets and running lines and stuff like that. so i stuck with an AOD, i needed an overdrive as i drive the car quite a bit.