Hey everyone, my name's Aaron and I'm new here. I have a 79 mustang hatchback that I acquired as a means of transportation and project car. It's been worked on before, and it has a 4 bbl carb on an aftermarket intake, 302 engine with stock exhaust, MSD ignition, electric fan and bare essentials. I haven't touched it mechanically yet, aside from an oil change and new battery. The interior dash is replaced with custom gauges (which never work right) and switches (which i don't know what they're for), and set up for nitrous (which it doesn't have.)

There is a stock 4-speed SROD tranny and a clutch that's going out. The synchros in the tranny are almost shot, and I'm looking for a new t5 (unless you have suggestions, feel free to let me know) Goals for this car are to build a street/strip car with tons of HP/TQ on pump gas.

Before I replace the clutch in it, I was hoping to find out why it's screeching so loudly. When I open the hood to find where the noise is coming from at idle, the screech is so unbelievably loud its hard to pinpoint. I narrowed it down to inside the bellhousing (I think), and when the car is driving under load (very low rpms in gear) the sound goes away. When it picks up speed and rpms, the screech gradually gets louder till I have to press in the clutch to shift, and when I press the clutch it gets even louder. Then it quiets down again for the low rpms of the next gear and so on. Any ideas?

Aaron United