<p dir="ltr">My race cars all had either Mark 8 or 9 Hewlands. <br>
One of my heaviest and most cherished boxes was my homemade wooden box with dividers that held about 30 gear sets and lots of dog rings.<br>
There was a list of closely guarded recipes for each track that was probably the nearest thing we had to top secret. That was one of the questions like How much is your Pantera worth or How much do you make per year that people just knew that you shouldn't ask and that nobody would answer.<br>
Once you had a bunch of practice and if nobody interrupted you, you could change them out in 30-45 minutes. Most people caught, strained and used the fluid for that weekend, new fluid was used the next time weekend.<br>
The truth is that if you had the formula for each track, you changed it out back at the shop or at home before arriving at the track, changing gear sets in the great outdoors, on grass, in the rain or in the cold, bent over on your knees isn't fun.<br>
What's worse is not having a big parts washer and lots of hot water to wash up afterwards. <br>
You could always tell you didn't have the right recipe at the driver's meetings<br>
by their smell, dirty fingernails and stained clothing.<br>
God I miss all of that stuff.</p>
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<div>T<font>h</font>e<font> only exception I know of to what Les said was Warren Tope's non-factory Pantera racer that used a Hewland. It was pretty blatant given that he competed against Hugh Kleinpeter's Pantera- that was required by IMSA to run a ZF. It was a big deal at the time because a Hewland's gear ratios could easily be changed for different tracks while the ZF's took hours to change and available ratios were few. Kleinpeter was the ZF rep for the eastern U.S. and even then he couldn't get the ratios he needed. There were several protests over Tope's car but nothing ever came of them. Kleinpeter said it was because Tope's father was a Ford vice-president and at the time, Ford was still in all kinds of racing.... 43 yr old dirty laundry.</font></div>
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Julian,<br>
The factory Group 4 race cars were required to use the ZF transaxle. I'm pretty sure that the Adler's Group-C car used a Hewland originally.<br>
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Les Gray<br>
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Subject: [DeTomaso] Hewland in a Pantera<br>
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<div><font size="3">I came across a Ford to Hewland LG bell housing, and got wondering did all the GP4 and other racers of </font>the<font size="3"> period ran ZF's or did any use a Hewland?</font></div>
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<div><font size="3">If my memory serves me I have seen a photo of a Hewland in a Pantera at some point.</font></div>
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