No mine didn't. The GVOD comes with a long tail house like on the B/E bodies. I had to purchase a long MS to make it work.
The front mounting point cannot be used as it sits right in the cross-member, and in fact, I had to grind a portion of the mount off so the adapter would fit in there. That leaves you with having to use the rear mount. At the time I got mine nobody mentioned an adapter plate, so I made my own. That gives you an opportunity to put the shifter anywhere you want to. I chose waaaay back and waaay up, and then installed a really short stick. I love it.
As for splitshifting, the only box this works properly on is the od box. The ratios will be 3.09-2.41-1.67-1.30-1.00-.78/.73od-.54double od. GV in red. Splits are
.78-.69-.78-.77-.78-.73........... So you get Seven useable ratios.
There a a couple of problems with this.
Firstly,with street tires, say 27s,there's only one rear-gear you can use to get three ratios to rpm-peak at 60 mph. Say your cam peaked at 5400. To hit 60 at 5400 in the third-ratio of 1.67 would take ~4.30s. BUT, that gets you a starter gear of 13.29. Which,IMO, is insane. I drove my combo like that for two summers, and said enough!
Secondly;Double od makes 65=1875. So any cam bigger than ~223*.050, is gonna be hard to tune for economy, and will be operating in a poor efficiency zone. But using .78 overdrive, the Rs climb to ~2700, so kindof not what you want either. The much much weaker .73od will get you ~2530, which is good, but when you put it into .73od with a badboy clutch, you gotta remember to take it real easy.
Ok so thirdly, a nice starter gear might be 11/1, and that would be 3.55s, and you can guess the rest. So in the end and after breaking two of those od gears, I jumped ship.
There is another option; the Commando box with ratios of 3.09-1.92-1.40-1.00 - For a description of this , see my signature below. I've been running this now since ~2004.
