T56 tail housing interchange help?!
04-27-2009, 02:29 PM
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T56 tail housing interchange help?! Hi dudes,
got a 2000 LS1/T56 from an LS car to fit in my opel manta. I'm just trying to work out if i can bolt on a retrofit tail housing as the shifter position seem a little better, looks a couple of inches further forward. Is this to much of a ball ache to bother with? Im in the u.k. an info isn't great about this stuff aint great over here.
Cheers, Damo.
got a 2000 LS1/T56 from an LS car to fit in my opel manta. I'm just trying to work out if i can bolt on a retrofit tail housing as the shifter position seem a little better, looks a couple of inches further forward. Is this to much of a ball ache to bother with? Im in the u.k. an info isn't great about this stuff aint great over here.
Cheers, Damo.
04-27-2009, 02:54 PM
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You'll need to change the shift rail with the retro tail, but otherwise it's a direct swap. You should recheck the extension shaft shimming when replacing the tail housing. (An annoyance, but not major, is I wondered why they didn't drill a drain/fill hole in the retro housing shifter area.. Can't fill the fluid though the shifter area on the retro..) The retro also uses the T5-type of square shifter, not the rectangular shifter that are standard on the Fbody T56s..
