'69 Barracuda T56 swap, floor, cross member

72bluNblu said
Hmm. Have you checked the driveline angle at all? Could be sitting up a smidge too high at the tail, and anything would help.

Looking at the transmission mount bolts I really don’t thing the transmission is any further back than mine, not more than a 1/2” for sure. I don’t have that same side shot but you can see how far back the shifter sits, and from the bottom you can see if the transmission was another 1/2” back that next bolt on the shift cover would be behind the crossmember…

I see your point mine might be farther back then yours but probably less then 1/2" so its not dramatically farther back like I originally thought.

Haven't checked the driveline angle. But rear of trans would have to drop probably way over an inch in order to get trans and bellhousing to clear floor heat duct. Right now I have to jack the trans up to the point where the entire car lifts up on its suspension in order to get the cross member bolts in and even then can only get 3 of the 4 bolts to go through. I can not get a gap in between the trans and trans mount even with trans jacking up to the point entire car is lifted up. The trans will not go up due to steel floor heat duct preventing trans and bell housing from going any higher. I have the entire top of the trans tunnel cut out now which allows me to clearly see trans to tunnel clearances and only clearance issue is up at firewall with the floor heat duct.