Will GM 200r4 work with factory floor shift location?

I found a very cool series of eye-candy pictures for a crossmember/ transmission mount going on over at Hotchkis. Even though its for a manual trans, it's a great concept, and should be helpful for anyone running an even larger transmission that passes through this crossmember....or what's left of it. Of course it doesn't include tying the crossmember in over the top of the transmission. But that shouldn't be that hard to do, and would make the crossmember even stronger.

Those guys at Hotchkis do some amazing work! Imagine if only the small cut like Treblig made on the driver's side left the rest of the factory crossmember intact. Also, I plan on welding in a concave plate to fill the cut made on the driver's side and add some strength back to the factory crossmember. This style tubular style reinforcement was added to strengthen the factory crossmember and provide the rear trans mount.

After seeing this, my vision is to make new u-shaped brackets welded to the ends of the tube, so it can fit over the remaining crossmember like the original bolt on crossmember/ trans mount does. I'll relocate the driver's side mounting bolt holes over a bit, and have it bolt on like the stock crossmember. The passenger side should remain untouched and use the factory bolt holes.

Enjoy the pics!