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Flexplates - What are you using?65Belved
Moparts Member
Posts: 1442
From: Gun Country Tucson AZ
Registered: Jul 2000
posted 12-16-2002 01:14 PM
I am in search of a Flexplate for the 511ci.
What are you using in your motors, do you have a stock or after-market?
If it is an after-market, who is the manufacture?
Any dislikes, why?
I have one from the 361ci I pulled from my car.
Any suggestions or use the one I have.
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LOCOMOTION
Moparts Member
Posts: 1460
From: FL
Registered: Dec 1999
posted 12-16-2002 01:30 PM
Personally I feel that B&M are the best and I believe JW in Rockledge makes a similar neutral balance version.
The stock ones with the cut-outs within the ears are not for serious performance applications.
The Mopar Perf. versions with the solid ears are much better, but I have cracked a few over time.
B&M and JW are round and solid. Plus you get a variety of bolt holes and patterns which vary depending on what the converter manufacturer uses. If I recall correctly, there is a large and small pattern for the small bolts and a small pattern for the big bolts.(often used on race-only converters)
Myron
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Old hippie
Moparts Member
Posts: 450
From: Chandler,Arizona, USA
Registered: Jun 2000
posted 12-16-2002 01:30 PM
Nick....Use a SFI approved Flexplate. That puny stocker from the 361 ain't gonna cut it at the track. I got mine from Hughes up here in Phoenix.
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65Belved
Moparts Member
Posts: 1442
From: Gun Country Tucson AZ
Registered: Jul 2000
posted 12-16-2002 02:47 PM
I just found a B&M plate here in town, going to go get today.
Thanks, nick
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MRMOPAR
Moparts Member
Posts: 1651
From: Tucson, AZ
Registered: Jan 2000
posted 12-16-2002 03:27 PM
Nick..if its SFI then it should be date coded, and needs to be current.
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SCVpiper
Moparts Member
Posts: 180
From: Castaic CA USA
Registered: Nov 2001
posted 12-16-2002 04:17 PM
B&M flexplate here on a cast crank 440. I had flexplate ballanced with the crank and harmonic.
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65Belved
Moparts Member
Posts: 1442
From: Gun Country Tucson AZ
Registered: Jul 2000
posted 12-16-2002 04:23 PM
I just picked it up at Don's, date coded
7-02.
Not what I wanted the date to be, but at least he had one and it was the only one.
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ttcrebel
New Member
Posts: 20
From: Raleigh, NC, USA
Registered: Dec 2002
posted 12-16-2002 04:28 PM
Using a B&M full circle unit in my dad's 1968 HEMI Cuda SS/AA.
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DARTMAN928
Moparts Member
Posts: 1025
From: IN
Registered: Jun 2001
posted 12-16-2002 05:25 PM
Anyone ever use a Hughes sfi flexplate????
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Dduster
Moparts Member
Posts: 731
From: Livermore, CA
Registered: Dec 2000
posted 12-16-2002 06:56 PM
TCI makes a good one, nice and solid along with being SFI certified. I don't know if Hughes makes one but they probably do. Former NHRA S/Gas Champ Ed Destaute is sponsered by a shop (Reactor Products) out of So. Cal that makes really nice aluminum ones as well. I had to write out the name to remember the shop. They are SFI certified as well.
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max
Moparts Member
Posts: 987
From: Ohio
Registered: Jul 2000
posted 12-16-2002 07:04 PM
i am using the B&M full circle in my car also.
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chrisf
Moparts Member
Posts: 1795
From: British Columbia, Canada
Registered: Nov 1999
posted 12-16-2002 07:08 PM
i run a b+m on my challenger and i really like it. dont use that pos stock one. sooner or later it will brake
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rrsbdh
Moparts Member
Posts: 2591
From: Decatur Alabama
Registered: Oct 2001
posted 12-16-2002 09:20 PM
I use an MP one for my 446 and a B&M one for my 493 as it has the eight bolt flange.
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sitkadog
Moparts Member
Posts: 226
From: Oregon
Registered: Feb 2002
posted 12-16-2002 10:52 PM
B&M, it is the first aftermarket one I have ever used. So far,so good.
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340_6Pak_Cuda
Moparts Member
Posts: 3090
From: Maryland
Registered: Nov 2001
posted 12-17-2002 08:17 AM
Havent had a B&M one break yet. My 340 used to eat stock flexplates for lunch. I finally wised up and put in the B&M.
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J BODY
Moparts Member
Posts: 1135
From: Ft. Mohave, Arizona
Registered: May 2001
posted 12-17-2002 08:35 AM
I bought a MP flex plate. Looks like the stock one I took out except for the sfi sticker. The stock one never gave me any probs though.
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