I have a few small issues that I ran into last night after dropping the motor and trans into the car. By the time I got to these problems it was 2AM and the last thing I felt like doing was trying to figure them out.

1, My drivers side header is hitting the slave cylinder, (hydraulic clutch). I am thinking of trying to fit a header from a 3rd gen fbody, whichis where my 5 speed setup is from, will this work or not?

2. I am a little concerned that I may have gotten "mislead" when I bought my T5. Every pic I have seen of this puts the shifter about 2 inches forward and 2 inches to the right of the stock location. Mine came up in the middle of the tunnel (left to right) so that was fine. However it is about 1.5 inches further back from where it needs to come up through the boot? Do I need to recheck the numbers on my trans (actually check for the first time), or is it ok?

3. The crossmember is an obvious issue, but I was under the impression that I would need to make an adaptive plate to get it to line up. However mine seems to stick up into the tunnel to much as I cannot even come close to putting bolts to the rails? Am I missing something or do I just need to go from scratch?

Any help and advice would be great, I will get this stinking thing on the road by the end of the month one way or another!

 

Fixed the header issue with the grinder and a BFH!!!!

Any thoughts on my other issues????

 

The shifter problem is typical of that installation. Most have dealt with it by modifying the hole and the console to make it fit. You can buy the parts to correct it though. As for the crossmember, we did one a while back and had to cut and modify the existing crossmember to make it line up properly.

I am glad that you managed to work out the header issue. We too had to ding the header to make it work. However, we used a Wildwood hydraulic cylinder. I wanted to ask what pedal setup you used? And did you use the stock lines?

Hope things work out. It should make the car fun to drive.

 

I used the pedals from a 72
Master cylinder from an 83 chevy truck
slave cylinder from a 86 camaro!!!

Talk about hodge podge!! Anyway, I am thinking i am going to cut up the crossmember to get it to work.