Gears & Axles - mounting pics on the mid west 9"

im about to pull all my stock crap out tormorrow and install my fully asembled midwest 9" ..

any pics of the mounting points for the front with the drive shaft loop ?
what pinion angle should i set it at ?

pics would be great ! will i have to drill and mount it to the under side of the car meaning the seats will have to come out right ??

no drilling or anything like that required for the install. only the 3rd gen cars have a weld-in crossmember. the 4th gen cars are all bolt in... either the trans crossmember gets replace with a long arm version, or the short arm version crossmember gets mounted where the tunnel brace originally went.

hmm i got the long arm but with the drive shaft loop .. is this right?

i dnt see a mount for the tranny on drvie shaft loop crossmember ..
and the pics on you website show the long arm t/a with the crossmeber tranny brace and the short arm version with the drive shaft loop no tranny mount ? ..

is this wrong or am i just confused .. when i placed the order i tought i had asked for the short arm .. no biggie .. but if i did get the wrong arm can we just trade ? altought i already had everything painted .. let me knw thanks !

oh by the way here are a few pics of everything all nice and painted ..
ok now after looking at everything im pretty sure i got it shipped worng ..this is what i should have got

http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/fbodyrear-1.jpg

but this is what i got .
this torque arm
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/DSC04740.jpg

with this crossmember / ds loop
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/DSC04742.jpg

these are the rest of the parts . house of kolor candy apple red
over a black base coat .. bling bling .
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/DSC04733.jpg
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/DSC04731.jpg
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/DSC04743.jpg
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/DSC04741.jpg
http://i519.photobucket.com/albums/u360/lsxoo7/DSC04744.jpg

wow those look great. is the car the same color?

your torque arm looks different because the fab 9 inch uses different mount points then the stock rear. also you appear to have a short arm version, that mounts in place of the tunnel brace, hence the reason for no tranny mount on the cross member

the car isnt painted yet but will be a black metalic ..

i think its the long arm . with the short arm bracketry .
i should have got the same torque arm as in the first black picture but i ended up getting the long arm with the short torque arm bracket .. wich i dnt think will work ..

and + i wanted the short arm + ds loop from the get go .. so yeah . ssvert99 any help here ?

I had to drill the shock mounting holes a bit bigger on mine.
Maybe Eric is now making them the stock size.

can anyone confirm that i got the 2 differnt parts ??

I don't know what that first one is but you have the right one.

Short arm:

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/ssxscc/100_1895.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y289/ssxscc/100_1901.jpg

The stuff you got looks correct. The pic of the short arm you posted is for a stock style rear end.

ok so im all good to go ?? i tought i have the wrong arm ..
wheee ha ha shoudl have this in asap .. so since i do have the right mounting bracket i have to drill a set of holes to get it to fit right ? its no replacing the stock tranny crossmember correct ??

thanks again !

You won't touch the trans. crossmember. The one with the loop will replace your tunnel brace, that's it. And you shouldn't have to drill holes either, the MWC 9" should be a direct replacement :nod:

i wont have to drill any whole for the ds loop cross member ?? i havent even looked or touched the car in about 7 months just collecting parts .. getting ready to do all at once .. thanks for the help guys !

No you shouldn't have to drill anything, it should be a direct replacement. That being said, I had to open the holes up a little bit on the crossmember itself because it didn't line up perfect but that was on the TD crossmember which had a couple other little probs but hopefully you won't have those issues.

now .. since i aint replacing any of the tranny cross memeber what will the ds loop bracketry bolt on to ?? will it replace anything else uneder the car ? like i said all my answers would be answerd if i just looked under the damn car .. lol..

take a breath and read carefully - you keep asking the same questions.
#1 no drilling is required for install - on any part you have there
#2 don't even look at the trans - you won't be messing with it
#3 leave the trans cross member alone - again you won't be messing with it
#4 remove the factory tunnel brace from the floor. it is a flimsy wavy piece of metal under the front seats
#5 installed the arm mount in place of the tunnel brace
#6 in post #4 of this thread - your pic of parts - in the middle of the pic all the way to the right, the single piece that has a serious of holes in it and 1 bushing, that bolts to the tq arm mount next to the loop. the tq arm bolts to it.

^^^ That's it. Good luck with it!

#4 remove the factory tunnel brace from the floor. it is a flimsy wavy piece of metal under the front seats
#5 installed the arm mount in place of the tunnel brace

ok this is what answer my simple question .. what was the tq arm and ds loop replacing on the stock parts of the car .. thanks !!!!