One wire lock-up, 4 spd automatic w overdrive into A-body.

Treblig said
Well... its gonna be close!!! I have a spare 2004R and just measured it. Came out a hair over 28" maybe 28 1/16 to the end of the housing. The books all say 28 1/4" so I guess that's probably what it is (my stick might not have been perfectly square with the trans). Either way if you trim the upper cross member as per my previous posts (pics) or remove it completely you should have no problem, unless you don't cut enough. How did your torque convertor to flex plate clearance come out?? Should be no more than 3/16" so that you get proper engagement of the front pump.

PS - Still waiting for the mechanic to install the 3.73s gears in the Cuda. The guy hurt his knee and can't work on anything for a week or so.

Treblig

I went out with a buddy for a celebration dinner tonight and didn't get anything done. I want to drop the torque converter in the transmission tomorrow and see how it came out. We're aiming for 1/8" from fully seated in the transmission to bolted to the flexplate. That will put me right in the middle of the 3/16" range of fully seated, to out-to-far. It should be close, but tomorrow will tell.

If not, I will finally have all the parts to male an exact measurement, engine with crank and flexplate, torque converter and trans. Up until now it's been measuring the old trans and using what the torque converter manufacturer knows about depths inside the transmissions. If we get it to within an 1/16" fully bolted together tomorrow, it will be pretty impressive. AND, the converters can be more easily made, instead of the trial and error method we used. Fingers crossed.

Cutting is going to happen for any automatic transmission overdrive install in a Mopar, but it should be called notching for the 200R4 (Treblig's pic) versus major surgery for a Mopar overdrive install (some poor guy with no more middle in his factory crossmember of his torsion bar). To be fair, I'm sure her reinforced it somehow, but still! Plus the Mopar transmissions take a lot more power to spin.

It won't be long now until you guys are going to be flooded with pics of the install.