'69 Barracuda T56 swap, floor, cross member

340sFastback said
I book marked your installation a while back and have read it over many times because you did an excellent write up. I think its likely forward area of my tunnel will need to be enlarged. I think the tunnel rear off my cross member I am good there.

I am working on indexing the bell housing to engine while engine is out of the car. After that I will get engine in with trans bolted up and see what is needed to get that required minimum 1/4 inch clearance between trans and trans tunnel. I won't be surprised if I have to do a lot more cutting welding to get the trans to clear the tunnel.

It's possible, I would think the reverse lockout solenoid would get tight coming in and out. I was trying to merge it all in and have a floor contour that didn't have any real sharp changes so the carpet wouldn't bunch there since I don't have a real console.

I work for an auto supplier, but I do a lot of packaging work with the OEMs and usually they do parts at 20mm+ that move and 10mm+ for parts that don't. Now, we're talking production tolerances here so you can probably get by with a finger's width or 1/2" for most things. With the polyurathane mount the 1/4" will probably make it but it's tight.

DionR said
So they were able to get the trans bolted up without removing any of the floor at the firewall? I understand they had to remove some later to match the new crossmember, but I would have though they would have had to cut a bunch out before even getting it bolted up.

Hoping to start on this in a month or so myself, so watching closely.

At best the pinchweld would have to be flattened out. IIRC I tried that and I didn't like it so I just flat out cut it off by cutting ahead of it.