But wait... there's more...
The person who put a tranny into this rig, ( and it's now obvious to me after spending the afternoon under it that it's been out before...) was a complete no talent, ass clown, hack. No skilz at all.
Get this. The top two and middle two bell housing to block bolts are MIA. Gone. Non existent. Yes ladies and gentlemen.... the A4LD is being held into my exploder by 4 bolts...
I know. :looser:
At least I don't have to break those bitches loose now.... :clappy:
I've pretty much abandoned the idea of adapting the column shifter to the C5. The cable moves the exact opposite way from the C5's arm. It's on top, the A4LD has the arm pointing to the bottom. I could use an after market shift arm and change it to the bottom... but it would eliminate the neutral safety switch/reverse light switch... which at that point I might as well put an after market shifter into it... so I decided to use the 1984 BII factory floor shifter.
Here's some mock up pics of that:
It just clears the dash in park. It blocks the ash tray from opening all the way while in park... but I don't smoke anyway...
The other thing I was worried about with the floor shifter is that it would clear the center console in 1rst gear. It does, with more room than the dash.
Here you can see the difference between the early and later model trans tunnels... the later models have a much larger hole and corresponding floor plate. I will be putting the C5 shifter/floor plate on top of the existing sploder floor plate and basically sandwiching them.
