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

It looks so familiar, because it looks like a happy face we have when the 200R4 shifts into overdrive. LOL. or a boomerang.

Thanks for the reminder about the front mounts needing to be loosened. I will loosen them up when the motor is out of the car to trim that top part of the notched area that the transmission hits when its jacked all the way up.

You can see in this first picture where the center casting line is about a 1/2" towards the driver's side compared to the center of the transmission tunnel. I'll loosen up the two big nuts on the Schumacher motor mounts and pull the trans over with a motorcycle tie down and take a picture of it. I'll also measure the notched side to see how much room I have to reinforce it further there. I'll also use the TTI measurements for crankshaft placement at the front of the motor.

Once the transmission and engine are "centered" in the right place, i'm toying with the idea of adding two more (long and thin and curved in the middle to join the ends of the notched areas with more material) plates of metal mounted on their sides, and run from the top of the notch to the bottom to gusset the notched area. Then I'll weld another 1/4" plate between them to cap two pieces at the notch to further strengthen the cut out area .

The purpose being to replace the sides of the notched area that I cut out with shorter, thicker metal. But, that is likely overkill at this point, as it is probably already stronger in that area than it was ever originally. Heck, the entire loop wasn't even spot welded to the floor.

Having this plasma cutter makes cutting out little custom shapes of metal a 90 psi breeze.

On an unrelated note: with this bellhousing system, I didn't have to touch the pinch welded lip at the bottom of the firewall at all to fit the bellhousing in and it still has plenty of clearance there.