Trans/drive angle ls7 dry sump?

[67ragtp]

Ok the saga continues, I opened the tunnel yes I cried through every cut
I was able to lift the tail of the trans almost a full inch from the trans member mount. The best I could get is 3 degrees down, any higher and the trans will be in the dash board. I played with the upper bars in the rear and the yoke is at zero and the driveshaft is at zero. I dont think I can point the yoke up would 1/2 or 1 degree pointing down be ok?

Thanks Rich

[Vegas69]

Rich, I was hoping you could do better than that. Is it a low rider? You need to play with it until you find the sweet spot. Bottom line is if you go 1 degree down, you'll end up with a working angle in the front of about 2.5 and a rear angle of a about 1.5. Those are some really small working angles and the car should run out really nice.

[67ragtp]

Thanks Todd- really appreciate the help, Time to fire up the torch and put bandaids on my tunnel.

The more I look at it, it almost seems like dse built the frame mounts for the motor mounts very high so the engine sits high and needs to slope down more than a typical stock sb or bb. The collectors on there pipes are almost completely above the frame rail. I imagine there were some kind of comprimise's during the design phase. They even sneak the steering shaft between two of the header tubes.

Thanks again- Rich

[Vegas69]

Now you have the room to play. If you need to lower it a little for your steering shaft, etc you have the option.

I've got the DSE sub and I ended up using 302 small block mounts since they put the engine the lowest in the chassis. I realize you have an LS7 but my oil pan is pretty close to the crossmembers. I bet they are at stock height.

[GregWeld]

This thread is funny.... Rich -- Welcome to hot rodding 101.... move one thing half an inch --- and something else is either in the way, or requires modification.