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Garage Dog 65 · #**251** 03-06-2012, 12:03 PM

Here's the pic of the test trans mount. Cut it on a 2 axis cnc in fiberglass, lopped off the bottom half and checked the fit on the car. Fit perfect.

Jim

**GregWeld** · #**252** 03-06-2012, 12:13 PM

Great looking stuff Jim!!

Can't tell you how many buddies I've tried to "inform" about primer (surfacer type) not being a good rust proofer! They don't believe me... then they find out a year later (remember I live in the great Pacific NorthWET!).

Ditto - "bondo" - it will absorb moisture if not sealed. People don't believe that either.

Garage Dog 65 · #**253** 03-06-2012, 12:23 PM

I was caught off guard too Greg. I though it would do better, but you could tell it was rusting under there. It was (at the time) that new fangled epoxy primer... rusted pretty much everywhere under it. But, 20 years in a storage container in Florida - I guess anything will rust.

Jim

Garage Dog 65 · #**254** 03-06-2012, 12:59 PM

Had to come up with a different design for the shifter location. The stock shifter location is in the normal spot – off to the left of centerline. That position doesn’t work for packaging in this car and for getting the linkage to the back of the transaxle.

So I got rid of the side-mount style and came up with a saddle mount style. I took the stock guts outta the housing, took those measurements, plugged them into the saddle mount design and sent it out to a local shop to prototype print the part in plastic/resin.

Once it get it back and test fit the concept in the car – I’ll cnc the assy outta aluminum for real and attach it to the torque tube via rivet-nuts.

Jim