I did the complete conversion from Hurst Driveline conversions and love it!. They took great care of me. I had been hearing lots of horror stories lately about Keisler. Keep us posted on how it works out
Nice job on that cut.
wow,that all looks great.!. well done. I had a shop cut my tunnel, no way I was going to attempt that!.. Anyway, in regard to keisler I do know they are no longer a Tremec dealer. Hence the reason now they are trying to offer their "own" transmission option for the conversion. They cannot get Tremec tranny's anymore. I've seen posts on other forums also where there have been some real unhappy people dealing with them, but that happens anywhere from time to time I guesswhat have you heard? i know shafi a little bit. i am working with him to test some stuff,long story.
I did this conversion with a TKO-500. You can drop the centerlink by pulling the pitman and idler arms. Leave the tie rods connected. Pull the distributor and loosen the motor mounts. I had to disconnect the three firewall connectors too. It is a tight fit getting the trans up and around the torsion bar support member. Aligning the bell housing was a big project. They are looking for 0.005 inches or less on the runout. One thing that really took a long time to figure out was I had extra thick motor mounts. They messed up my clearance. I got a pair of "Magnum mounts" from Mancini. They lowered the motor and got me the needed clearance. I also shimmed the motor forward a 1/4 inch by putting washers on the bolts of the motor mounts.
You will like the extra gear and the crisper shifts. The trans is lighter too. Running modern synthetic gear oil also gets more HP to the rear wheels.
that .01 T.I.R. seems a little excessive doesn't it? they can't tell me the factory gets them that close in a high production situation. i dropped the center link today and got the motor down enough. had to cut the floor a bunch more also.
Factory spec was 3 thou. and Keisler's is 5 thou.
Keep up the good work, Eric! Looking good.
I saw a mention that we don't or can't get Tremec transmissions, but that is not correct. We still sell them regularly (every day). However, our new KEISLER Rallye Sport RS 5-Speed has taken off, and Tremec sales are way down. The RS product for your car is planned to be a NO CUTTING installation with correct driveline angle.
We'll know soon when the engineering design is released.
See you soon!
Unless I am missing it, the Keisler RS package for the A-body is not up on their website yet.
just keep the pieces that you cut out of the floor, if you decided to go back to stock. not hard at all
80,000 miles, 200,000 miles, or a million miles, no real difference