Show me your modified solid tranny crossmembers?
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2024 C3 of the Year Finalist- Modified
Show me your modified solid tranny crossmembers?
One of our fellow overseas Vette owners (Günther-C3) is having a heck of a time installing the new RS500 manual tranny. So I would like for him to see pictures of how you cut yours and made it removable.
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Team Owner
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2024 C3 of the Year Finalist- Modified
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From: Orange Park Florida
The above is much toooooo complicated, all I did was sawzall the cross member about 4" off at each end, leaving a tag on the rails....
to make it easy on the exhaust pipes, I cut out the bottom section of the loops, and cut it wide on each side, then boxed in the open ends of the frame and built a small bridge structure in the top of the curved section, for strength....
the removable section has a 2" angle iron welded to each end, that rides on the top/rear of the stubs, plus a smaller welded piece under it, this forms a strong flange that is held to the stubs with a 1/2" bolt going fore/aft.....
my way, 6 bolts total, and the entire exhaust system is on the ground....4 more bolts and the cross member is on the ground, shifter and all.....
I have a 200 4r in there now, it was a Muncie 4 speed....
spent more time driving the cross member over to my welder buddy's place than actually doing the mod work.....
to make it easy on the exhaust pipes, I cut out the bottom section of the loops, and cut it wide on each side, then boxed in the open ends of the frame and built a small bridge structure in the top of the curved section, for strength....
the removable section has a 2" angle iron welded to each end, that rides on the top/rear of the stubs, plus a smaller welded piece under it, this forms a strong flange that is held to the stubs with a 1/2" bolt going fore/aft.....
my way, 6 bolts total, and the entire exhaust system is on the ground....4 more bolts and the cross member is on the ground, shifter and all.....
I have a 200 4r in there now, it was a Muncie 4 speed....
spent more time driving the cross member over to my welder buddy's place than actually doing the mod work.....
Safety Car
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From: Dearborn Heights Michigan
Used rectangular tubing that had the same ID dimension as the outside of the X-member.
Welded tubes to the cut out piece & bolted that to the X-Member.
simplier than welding ears on both ends .
Welded tubes to the cut out piece & bolted that to the X-Member.
simplier than welding ears on both ends .
Drifting
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From: Medina Ohio
.I like it and the brackets are cheap enough.
Racer
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From: Racine Wisconsin
Removable Crossmember
Last edited by 7T3C3TTZ07; Mar 15, 2013 at 07:13 PM.
Team Owner
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From: Orange Park Florida
and opening up the bottoms of the exhaust loops, makes the pipes SO easy to drop, as mentioned above.....
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