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Old 08-16-2012, 11:02 PM
makoshark makoshark is offline
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I played around with different motor pedestals that I had laying around, today, and ruled out any alternatives there. I have the correct ones for my setup installed. Thankfully! I did manage to get both bolts through the x-member into the trans mount. However, I'm not able to get the x-member to catch the 4 factory mounting holes. It is hitting the trans pan keeping me from getting both sides to catch. I can catch both on one side, but not the other. I can adjust the x-member to the rear of the car and make new mounting holes or notch the x-member to clear the pan. If I notch the x-member, then that would require a good deal of fab work, as well as, make my rear trans pan bolts inaccessible while the mount is installed. At this point, I feel I will just relocate the frame mounting holes. It also appears the x-member needs to shift to the passenger side another 1/4". I have gotten it to move over a bit, but these poly mounts are tight and seem to not give the ability to make many adjustments. I can see that the motor and trans will, definitely, need to be installed onto the subframe fully assembled before installing it to the finished car.

I'm making progress an 1/8" at a time right now

Last edited by makoshark; 08-17-2012 at 12:25 AM.
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