the transmission is catching on the floor of the camaro and only has like an inch of spline to comeo outta the torque converter. its a ls1 fbody, anyone got ideas

 

Never drop the transmission without the torque converter. Try lifting the front of the engine.

 

Disconect the battery drop the starter and remove the converter bolts and drop with trans.

 

well it came out w/ the converter. the conv to flywheel bolts were torqued waaaaay too tight from the last dumbass owner. 44ft/lbs shouldnt have me lifting my whole body in the air when im losening the bolts.

 

You'd be surprised. I broke a damn hardened allen wrench breaking the last bolt loose. You forget, it's only 44 ft/lbs, but that sumbitch is loctited to hell and back! GM was stupid for not using a regular hex-head bolt from the factory.

 

use a sawzall and cut the floor out so you can "fred flinstone" it

yeah never remove a tranny without the converter

i agree with him that youd be surprised as in how tight the bolts can get or seem to get after a period of time heating up and cooling down.

good luck.

i bed fred flinstonin it will give you at least 5 more HP and if not it would look funny as hell....

ok im done i must be tired! LOL