A few pics of barracuda project.

I would ,
Wow!!! That sounds pretty rough. I have heard of catastrophic failures but didnt realize they would come apart that bad. What your saying on where to run the lines makes sense. I will prob just run them outboard of the subframe connectors attached to them. They are 1/8" thick 2x3 so an exploding driveshaft probably wouldent go through those.
I would, especially if on a rotisserie. I also had a very violent trans explosion, but that's another story!