Ring is on trans side, you are looking at flywheel and ring from trans side so not a spacer between crank and flywheel, just a doubler but that doubling pushes bolts farther back and they contact center of converter. The indent if you will in flex plate is towards trans as well which I think is proper. Aftermarket flex plate, do not recall manuf..
Fyi, this is a C6 in a 65, 65's normally had green dot trans, 66 tbirds did have c6 though, so new trans, converter, and flex plate combination tied to scat crank.
If converter is bolted hard to flywheel anyways, just makes contact in different area, looking to understand dynamics of the failure, this setup was just worse case for being able to handle any balloning or something else or ?
Is this where a flex plate gets its name? converter pushes on outer diameter of plate, plate absorbs some of that by deflecting and less load on crank then or ?
Sorry for miilion questions, trying to learn and not make same mistake twice.
Thanks.