Pretty funny, the carved up tranny case pictures I took five years ago have circulated around & found there way here months before I did..
Terry, you posted you have concerns about the removed webbing, by now I'm sure you've taken a better look at that area of the case & hopefully feel as I do that it is far enough back that it isn't a problem, the car has been on the road for over four years, before I gave it back to the owner I beat it pretty hard with no ill effects, he's been driving it hard ever since including a road trip for california to Texas...BTW it has 4.30 gears, a lockup convertor, 618 internals, an E headed 340 dynoed at 452 hp, the tranny is tucked in far enough to maintain the original driveline angle, the O/D shift & Lock up are both controlled automatically by a combination of vacuum switches, a VSS, & some basic electronic circutry I designed...The car is originally a column shift so I didn't have to change a thing, kickdown linkage & shift linkage both bolted right up...On a slapstick, you keep the original shifter but convert it to a cable shift, eliminate all the linkage, fabricate a cable mount a little time working out the leverage points & voila your shifting... The tranny tunnel was left completely stock, The first thing I did was take a measurment of the distance from the center of the original trans. output shaft to the floor pan for referance later, then I bolted the trans to the engine & attemptted to raise it , I trimmed the interferance areas on the trans., then when the output shaft to floor pan measurment was correct, I fabricated a new mount out of cardboard, then used that as a template to make a steel one.
