Yeah, I didn't think there was any way that fatty of a transmission was just going to sneak in to the car without a little torch work. I'm actually a little surprised that it's only an inch you need, and I bet you could easily recreate that much by putting it on the top side of the existing x-member and boxing it up. That's pretty much how I planned on doing things, and just building a new x-member around the trans once I got it where it needed to be for driveshaft angles. Speaking of, how did you handle that aspect of the swap? Did you build some sort of jig to recreate the driveshaft yoke location, or just measure from a few spots on the floor?
Nice to see someone making some progress for a change. I've got a couple details on another option I'll post up as soon as I get everything uploaded to my web pages. Takes photos to show what's going on...
