Map63Vette said

My tunnel is horribly ugly, so I'm glad it's covered in paint and carpet, lol. I basically just rounded a flat piece of sheet metal I got from a guy at work over my leg into something that looked roughly like a section of a cone. I don't have metal fab skills like that or the equipment to do it real nice, so I just made it work with what I had. Seems to at least have held up fine after nearly 10 years or something though.

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DionR said

I've seen his posts. I agree on the tunnel, but he is making progress and I'm not so I can't point fingers.

I went out to the garage yesterday with the expectation that I was going to have the tunnel opened up and the crossmember removed before the day was over. Couldn't wait to see the trans up in the car instead of sitting off to the side. Instead I spent all my time removing undercoating so I didn't have to deal with it when the sheetmetal is all floppy.

My plan is to split the tunnel down the middle and make cross cuts so I can just open the tunnel instead of remove it entirely and build an entirely new one. Imagine the turkey from National Lampoon Christmas Vacation movie.

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That's what @72bluNblu did and it makes some sense to me, plus I don't have to weld the driver's side patch back in like he did since I am starting with an automatic car rather than a 4 speed converted car.

Now I am trying to figure out how to create a cardboard sketch of the profile of the trans when looking down on it so I can get a better idea of how far down to cut the tunnel. Will my insanity never stop??

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