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Tim (Gray86hatch) is coming down next week to lend his expertise in building a set of headers like he had on his beast. In the meantime, I have been making an attempt to make sure everything is right so we don't run into any problems.
I could see that the upper U-joint On the steering shaft was going to be a problem so i took a look at Tims pictures from his build thread and noticed that his steering shaft, from the column, was a lot shorter than mine.
Tim's:
Mine:
Tim let me know that the column end could be pushed back into the column. I put the manual rack, U-joints and shaft in about 20yrs ago and either wasn't aware or had forgotten but I was able to shorten the column end four inches.
Thanks to Tims advice, I have a new shaft and a compact U-joint (Sweet Manufacturing) on the way which altogether will give a ton more clearance.
Tim told me, when I was trying to buy his mounts and headers, that it's such a tight fit and there may be slight differences in the car, they have to be built in the car. I think I'll hang on to these.
SSSTANG, is that aluminum 3/8" flat stock I see between your K member and body?
BUSTED! No, it's 1/4". After building mounts and beating the hell of the tunnel I still needed more room to get the transmission in so I broke down. Thought about raising the tunnel but pussed out. Good eye BTW. Had to lower coilovers 1/2"...j/k!
This has become a huge pain in the ***! The engine is definitely sitting too high even after ******* with the mounts and moving the engine back 1/4" and dropping it 1/4". I put the BH on and the transmission is about 1/2" from lining up even after beating the living **** out of the tunnel. I also cut 3 unused ears off the trans that were interfering. I have modified the Team Z mounts and they are ugly as **** so when I get the motor where I want it my buddy is going to duplicate what I have, except it will look better. Had considered putting 3/8" spacer btwn K and frame but don't want to loose ground clearance.
I'm sorry but this Team Z K member is way off from putting the engine where it needs to be. I know I'm doing a lot of custom **** but the basics are not being met. The engine is too high and too far forward PERIOD.
subscribing......very nice build! And that's disconcerting to hear about the TeamZ stuff
01-01-2015, 12:42 PM
