The crossmember is from a '79 Corvette...bolts right in! The only mods were to slot out the trans mount holes in the crossmember slightly. The trick is to use a 700 tailhousing from a Caprice...the mount location on the Caprice cars was farther back than normal, so the tailhousing has the mount boss cast into it. With the '79 x-member, and the Caprice tailhousing, the trans mount bolts right up, with
NO cutting/mods to the car, or the x-member, other than slotting the holes out for the mount.
The x-member may not work on later cars with the catalitic converter system without some mods to the exhaust, since the earlier x-member still has the two holes in it for the dual exhaust. If you have gone to duals, then it' not a problem, but the pipes may or may not fit, depending on how the pipes are bent to start with.
The torque converter has a slightly higher stall speed than normal, but not much. It's a version of the same converter that was used in Camaros, and '82 Corvettes.
The shifts can be tailored to just about anyone's liking, from sliding(Granma), to bust the winders out.
That's about all I know about Ed's swap. He got the trans from someone here locally, and I built it for him. All of the ancilliary items(shifter mod kit, TV cable & brackets, etc., came from the aftermarket).
Sorry....Joisey is just about
that(thumb and forefinger mashed together) far out of my commuting range....-
hth....
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