RS500 5sp install interference
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Drifting
Joined: Mar 1999
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From: Oxford CT
RS500 5sp install interference
Got the engine and trans into the car yesterday and have contact in the tunnel. I already have kieslers shim kit installed and it isn't enough. I'm thinking of adding aditional shim to that. Anyone have a feeling on the min amount of clearance that would work? Hopefully I won't have to shim up all the body mounts.
I'll also give Kiesler a call tomorrow
I'll also give Kiesler a call tomorrow
BubbaHut
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From: Lake Norman NC
2020 C5 of the Year Finalist - Modified
Trans Clearance
I had the same issue with a couple of TKOs in my mid years.
I found a solution here on the site somwhere, can't remember where?
You can buy a simple rubber sanding block from autozone for $5.95
and take a hack saw and cut it in half right where the slot is to hold the sand paper. Then wedge the half of the sanding block in above the cross member towards the center of the car. I took a floor jack and a piece of wood to spread the pressure and slightly jacked up the center of the floor pan where it has sagged over years of weight .
This step made it a little easier to wedge the sanding blocks in there.
This took care of my clearance problem..
Good Luck
I found a solution here on the site somwhere, can't remember where?
You can buy a simple rubber sanding block from autozone for $5.95
and take a hack saw and cut it in half right where the slot is to hold the sand paper. Then wedge the half of the sanding block in above the cross member towards the center of the car. I took a floor jack and a piece of wood to spread the pressure and slightly jacked up the center of the floor pan where it has sagged over years of weight .
This step made it a little easier to wedge the sanding blocks in there.
This took care of my clearance problem..
Good Luck
Melting Slicks
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From: Sacramento California
C2 of Year Finalist (performance mods) 2019
2018 C2 of Year Finalist
We had to custom fabricate a new mount for the crossmember to allow the transmission to drop a bit to clear the tunnel on my 63. Never quite "perfect" fit ever...
Thread Starter
Drifting
Joined: Mar 1999
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From: Oxford CT
there like us, sagging more as we get old
Thread Starter
Drifting
Joined: Mar 1999
Posts: 1,432
Likes: 22
From: Oxford CT
I had the same issue with a couple of TKOs in my mid years.
I found a solution here on the site somwhere, can't remember where?
You can buy a simple rubber sanding block from autozone for $5.95
and take a hack saw and cut it in half right where the slot is to hold the sand paper. Then wedge the half of the sanding block in above the cross member towards the center of the car. I took a floor jack and a piece of wood to spread the pressure and slightly jacked up the center of the floor pan where it has sagged over years of weight .
This step made it a little easier to wedge the sanding blocks in there.
This took care of my clearance problem..
Good Luck
I found a solution here on the site somwhere, can't remember where?
You can buy a simple rubber sanding block from autozone for $5.95
and take a hack saw and cut it in half right where the slot is to hold the sand paper. Then wedge the half of the sanding block in above the cross member towards the center of the car. I took a floor jack and a piece of wood to spread the pressure and slightly jacked up the center of the floor pan where it has sagged over years of weight .
This step made it a little easier to wedge the sanding blocks in there.
This took care of my clearance problem..
Good Luck
Le Mans Master
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From: Fremont CA
Just jack the body up until you hear 3 LOUD CRACKS and wedge a wooden block between the Xmember and the floor. Kiesler used to tell customers that they were suffering from "floor sag" not that they used a 73 or later Vette with rubber body mounts for the prototype which would give you another 1/2"-3/4" of clearance. Floor sag my AS*!
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Thread Starter
Drifting
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From: Oxford CT
Just jack the body up until you hear 3 LOUD CRACKS and wedge a wooden block between the Xmember and the floor. Kiesler used to tell customers that they were suffering from "floor sag" not that they used a 73 or later Vette with rubber body mounts for the prototype which would give you another 1/2"-3/4" of clearance. Floor sag my AS*!
I hope your saying that with tongue in cheek humor. Floor definitely does sag toward the center of the cross rail.