camaroracer016

Been a long time since I've been on the board! I no longer have my 84, and recently acquired an 88 V6 that I'm in the process of swapping to 5.3L / TH350 setup. I've been searching high and low but cant find the following definite answers:

I was going to use Trans-Dapt 4595 adapters. Since its a V6 car what will i need to put on the k member to make it work? Move the V6 mounts to the forward holes or what?

using this combo with a TH350, will the stock drive shaft work or be too short?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Steve

five7kid

iTrader: (14)

It's been a long time since I looked into the V6 engine mounts, but I believe you can use them if you move them to the V8 position.

If the Trans Dapt piece fits over the V6 chassis side mounts, I believe they'll work.

cosmick

Send them back, get Trans-Dapt 4536 brackets. See my thread for more details.

anobii

I left my v6 mount in the stock location on the k-member. I made my own engine plates though. They're extremely easy to make. By doing so the O.E. 700r4 drive shaft fit with the th350 like a glove.

cosmick

Looks like Anobii used 1/8" for the uprights. This might work, but I would not trust it to keep the engine from crushing my legs in the event of a frontal crash. My Trans-Dapts are 1/4".

anobii

They are 3/16". I added a cross tie at the base of the legs and welded them along their length to the 1/4" plate for a bit more support, but I never snapped a pic. 1/4" for the legs is a bit excessive for what they do, but, on the other hand a little over engineering is rarely a bad thing.

The solution, anyway, is don't frontal crash, you put too much work into just to drive it into something.

cosmick

Wow, I hope I didn't seem as insulting as that strikes me.
I guess you've never seen a crash where the front car stopped at a red light got totalled, and there was no escape path.

anobii

How on earth did you find that insulting? I explained a little better how I made the mounts, I even agreed that it wouldn't hurt to make them better. Maybe I should've added a :P after my crash comment to show I was being facetious.

Anywho, please don't turn this into a debate about crash-ology. :P

camaroracer016

cosmick with 4536, are you able to use the stock driveshaft and no clearance done to the stock kmember?

Looks like you still had some issues with the 4536, details?