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I'd drill new holes in the rails if they go back far enough and move the CM back. Run a bolt all the way through the floor. Can't see it under the carpet anyway. I've done that on older cars with a channel or angle iron CM. 


On May 9, 2005 Armand Eshleman wrote:

> The transmission crossmember on Javelins is mounted on the bottom side of
> the
> "frame rails". The 70 Ambo for sure uses the exact same crossmember as I
> salvaged one
> from a 70 360 Ambo and it matches the Javelin crossmeber 100%. There are two
> different
> positions in the front to rear plane that the crossmember can be mounted to.
> These two postions
> are relatively close to each other and offer no help for my situation. I
> assume the dual position is
> for automatics or manual transmission differences. I looked again tonite and
> saw that there is really
> only about one inch difference in the elevation between the T5 mount and the
> cross member, and
> two inches horizontally. It is so close. I began working on other things to
> let myself ponder on this
> for a bit and also hope some one would tell me how they solved the problem
> on their T5 swap into
> a Javelin.
> Armand
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Armand, how and where is the crossmember mounted? I don;t recall off-hand
> how the small car tranny crossmember goes in. On the big cars it fits
> between the rails. It might be easier/better to move the entire crossmember,
> even if it means a little welding is involved.
> 
> 
> On May 7, 2005 Armand Eshleman wrote:
> 
> > I'm still hoping some one can come up with a great idea on how to make a
> > flexible transmission mount. The original transmission crossmember is
> about
> > 2 inches below the T5 mount boss and about 4 inches behind it. I bought a
> > Mustang transmission mount hoping it would work but so far it doesn't look
> > good, unless I fabricate a bracket to weld to the AMC crossmember then I
> > could bolt the Mustang mount right up, but that may make the cross member
> > hang too low also.
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> .
> RSET


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