Considering how Ford made ZF modify this unit to the point it became the -2, if this was any kind of not even a big deal, they would have made ZF modify the bell in order to use the regular Mustang clutch with the counter weights on it?
The gearing on the -1 makes it really the preferred transmission for the car.
The 2.42 first gear is a much better ratio than the 2.20 GM ish ratio in the -2.
There are those unknowing Pantera owners who installed the Mustang clutch and lucked out with the counter weights cutting themselves clearances inside the bell without destroying everything.
I shudder to think of it but when you remove all of the obvious, whatever remains no matter how seemingly impossible, must in fact be the answer?
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