'69 Barracuda T56 swap, floor, cross member
Looking good so far. I think you will find you'll be cutting up a lot of the tunnel if you want to still have clearance to the transmission. I kept pie cutting and bending it back and then mergining it with the T56 tunnel patch for a Chevelle I bought. I do know that I can pretty easily get all the bolts out from under the car. I didn't want to do any type of cutouts because of water leakage/heat/fire risks. My opening is actually small enough I have to put the transmission in 3rd to drop it away from the engine. I had revised to using a 4th gen camaro throw out bearing and I had the thing out by myself in well under an hour, even with an X-pipe and long tubes.
I had bought mine from ToddRon directly, got delayed because of the powdercoating - at least at that time they powdercoated the top piece, which to me seemed totally unessesary, because I ground off about 80% of it anyway to weld. It's been in the car for 5 years now though. Good product because it's the only way to do the upper crossmember correctly, I see way too many people welding a piece of flat bar to their floor thinking it does something when I can literally bend that stuff with my bare hands. It has to be a 3D shape.
Looking good so far. I think you will find you'll be cutting up a lot of the tunnel if you want to still have clearance to the transmission. I kept pie cutting and bending it back and then mergining it with the T56 tunnel patch for a Chevelle I bought. I do know that I can pretty easily get all the bolts out from under the car. I didn't want to do any type of cutouts because of water leakage/heat/fire risks. My opening is actually small enough I have to put the transmission in 3rd to drop it away from the engine. I had revised to using a 4th gen camaro throw out bearing and I had the thing out by myself in well under an hour, even with an X-pipe and long tubes.
It's good that ToddRon is going to make sure they are available. If they weren't, I'd just mention making a CAD model of the flat plates for this is easy enough and you could just send them all out to Oshcut, and weld them together yourself with a little patience.
I had bought mine from ToddRon directly, got delayed because of the powdercoating - at least at that time they powdercoated the top piece, which to me seemed totally unessesary, because I ground off about 80% of it anyway to weld. It's been in the car for 5 years now though. Good product because it's the only way to do the upper crossmember correctly, I see way too many people welding a piece of flat bar to their floor thinking it does something when I can literally bend that stuff with my bare hands. It has to be a 3D shape.