Thx guys. I knew I knew but when an 'expert' starts spouting off of what he knows and how he has built many for the bow tie folks and early M-22's were off road units and they really never put one in a production car that was a 'real' M-22 and that early ones were WIDE ratio, I thought, let me come here and ask.
Us poor Pontiac folks didn't get them until '70 and then in '71/'72 they were optional on the A body 400 and mandatory on the 455HO when the 4-speed was ordered. I know what my car had in it.
It has come out that he was probably talking about 'crash boxes' where someone files off every other tooth on the synchronizers for racing because it makes it easier to power shift.
Again, thank you!!