New commercial mount for 2004R transmission

PoisonDart74 said

Am I missing something? Isn't the 200R4 swap for playing concessions to those too scared or too rare to hack the floor? Hell, if your gonna hack the floor, just put in a 42 or 46RH and call it a day! Or do a T56 or something, the possibilities open up to anything within reason at that point..

This 200r4 stuff is getting out of control. If your getting US car and tool to do a 200r4 bracket, they need to start making one for the transmissions stated above also, all it would take is a bob instead of a weave with the CNC machine. We need a T56 bracket that isn't $600.... :roll:

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Yeah, I think you missed the point. The floor isn't getting hacked. The floor pan doesn't change at all. All of the changes needed to use this crossmember occur under the stock floor pan, so from the topside the car would still appear stock.

As far as concessions to the guys with "rare" cars, it's not numbers matching no matter what, so, who cares?

Cutting and re-contouring the floor pan is a pain, and changes all sorts of things- which seats will work, whether or not the stock console can be used, etc. Changing the crossmember is only visible from under the car, and really, no more damaging to the value of the car than not having the numbers transmission anyway.

What would be interesting is if this crossmember would be of any use to a T56 swap. I'm sure some of the cars that originally had 200r4's have been converted to T56's.