1965 MMP's Barracuda Hemi swap! The Ever Changing Build
Super Busy this weekend, Had a booth at the Sand Sports Super Show this weekend. But was able to get finished up with everything and home yesterday around 8pm last night. I was itching all weekend to spend some time in the garage with the barracuda. So i took a few hours after the show to bolt up the 46RE transmission and motor mounts (which I ended up swapping the rubber mount from side to side) to get it to sit right in the bay. And shoe horned the motor and trans in the car for fitment. Seemed to go in and fit well. Tonight I'll raise the car up so I can slide under and see what I may have to massage and get an Idea of the room I'll be working with for the cross member. One thing I did notice is that the trans pan is much deeper that the 904 or 727 and it hangs quite low. I'll post more pictures of the fitment and changes needed to make this work in the days to follow. For now here is what I did last night. Pretty happy with myself and the build so far... lol :rolleyes:
IF you noticed in these two pictures below the rubber puck mounts. The thicker of the two is now on the drivers side, and the thin one is on the passenger side. If much better swapped...
In the pic below. I took this pic with the trans lowered so i could get my alignment mark in the picture. But when raised the trans sinks right up inside the tunnel nicely. I'll post raised trans pic's in the next few days..
This is the upper trans tunnel gap i have when the trans is raised into place.
Super Busy this weekend, Had a booth at the Sand Sports Super Show this weekend. But was able to get finished up with everything and home yesterday around 8pm last night. I was itching all weekend to spend some time in the garage with the barracuda. So i took a few hours after the show to bolt up the 46RE transmission and motor mounts (which I ended up swapping the rubber mount from side to side) to get it to sit right in the bay. And shoe horned the motor and trans in the car for fitment. Seemed to go in and fit well. Tonight I'll raise the car up so I can slide under and see what I may have to massage and get an Idea of the room I'll be working with for the cross member. One thing I did notice is that the trans pan is much deeper that the 904 or 727 and it hangs quite low. I'll post more pictures of the fitment and changes needed to make this work in the days to follow. For now here is what I did last night. Pretty happy with myself and the build so far... lol :rolleyes:
IF you noticed in these two pictures below the rubber puck mounts. The thicker of the two is now on the drivers side, and the thin one is on the passenger side. If much better swapped...
In the pic below. I took this pic with the trans lowered so i could get my alignment mark in the picture. But when raised the trans sinks right up inside the tunnel nicely. I'll post raised trans pic's in the next few days..
This is the upper trans tunnel gap i have when the trans is raised into place.