Will GM 200r4 work with factory floor shift location?

jbc426 said
Treblig, I want to personally thank you for the tremendous job you've done both on the car and with the incredibly detailed documentation of the install! I am about to begin the process of putting in a 200R4 in my '68 convertible Barracuda. Thanks in part to gaining the knowledge and confidence from the story you have told so well here. Just being able to study your pictures and learn from how you overcame the challenges, inspired me to go for it too.

Even though I will be taking a few shortcuts, like buying a ready-built transmission, using an aftermarket cable shifter and skipping the engine-plate adapter, my hat is off to you and your buddy! Love the post. I will try to make an attempt to document my install and will use your post as an example of how to do a decent job of it.

Kudos!!!

:cheers:

jbc426

Thanks for the Kudos and to be fair I was inspired by "Mopar To Ya" if it hadn't been for him blazing the (TCI) trail on the 2004R swap I probably would not have attempted it. There is very little I can't do but I would have hated to rip out my perfectly good 904 only to find that the 2004R wouldn't quite fit. Mopar To Ya included some important pics that helped me a lot but I decided to make it as easy as possible for everyone else by describing every detail as accurately as possible and taking as many pics as possible. Every time I pulled out my camera my friend would say, "More pictures???, we've never going to get this done if you keep stopping to take pictures!!!!" I would tell him that I'm doing it for the folks on the FABO website because that's where I get all my Mopar information.
If there's anything you (or anyone else) needs to know about the swap OR any detailed pics of any area just let me know and I'll do my best to post them. I personally don't like having my car down (not drivable) so I engineered and fabricated most everything in advance that way I could get it done quickly. I could have saved two days of work if I had known to cut off those BOP ears that were sticking out at the top of the housing.

This thread is quickly coming to an END! Test drive on Monday with a few last posts about how everything turns out. Then, after I install the 4:10 gears I'll let every know how that goes. Look for my vibration problem. Somebody also asked me to post about how the non lock up converter does, so I'll post about that.

PS - Here are the last few pics of the dip stick bracket I made this morning. It's a fire wall mount type tube but since I hate putting holes in my nice original Cuda I made this bracket and bolted to an existing factory bolt that sticks out of the fire wall.

Thanks again,
Treblig