Mocajava
Well-Known Member
I need a little tech help gentlemen. I installed a 6 speed TCI /GM with a Reid bell housing adapter behind my (bare)440 block and the car has the welded in tie-ins/ stiffeners to front and rear frame. The block is mated to the k member via stock engine mounts and the tranny is bolted up behind it, the entire assembly is sitting on a special dolly I built for install. I raised the car up, lowered the car over the engine/tranny combo, bolted in the k member and fabricated a new tranny cross member since the 727 cross member was useless on this GM tranny. I use my floor jack to raise and lower the rear of the dolly (pivoting off engine mounts)to get the correct angle on the whole engine assembly since I have no support under the tranny. I did use a new GM tranny mount which was bolted to the tranny and fabricated my way sideways on both sides to the frame extensions I built for support.
Here is the part I am hesitant about....As built now with tires and rims on her, the transmission pan will be level and is this correct for the way the engine SHOULD sit? When I did all the fabrication, the frame sits about 1 to 1 1/2" lower in front then the rear (I wanted a slight rake to the chassis). I leveled the tranny pan with the ground and fabricated the tranny mounts, it is just tacked together while I get input from you experts. The whole thing will be unbolted to weld up and is made to let the tranny be pulled close to how Ma Mopar designed their cars.
Here is the part I am hesitant about....As built now with tires and rims on her, the transmission pan will be level and is this correct for the way the engine SHOULD sit? When I did all the fabrication, the frame sits about 1 to 1 1/2" lower in front then the rear (I wanted a slight rake to the chassis). I leveled the tranny pan with the ground and fabricated the tranny mounts, it is just tacked together while I get input from you experts. The whole thing will be unbolted to weld up and is made to let the tranny be pulled close to how Ma Mopar designed their cars.