Operation: Venomous Fish (69 Bcuda V10)

mygasser said
wouldn't it have been quicker/easier/neater to have cut most all of the tunnel away and make a new one from 2 or 3 large pieces of sheet rather than the patchwork quilt approach you used? no offence, it'll look great once finished up but what a lot of work compared to rolling a new tunnel in large sections that'd need only a few joins finishing for paint. i mention it as you still have the firewall to do and it'd be painful to watch you do that all again there along with all the extra finish work before paint. i also see a lot in the hot rod world where the transmission can't be removed (for example to replace a clutch), the entire drivetrain must be pulled which seems crazy. in your time lapse it seemed that you'd built the tunnel pretty snug to the back of the trans which would make removal at the least very hard.
regards, neil.

I decided to take the patch approach for a couple of reasons:
1. Having never done a T56 swap into one of these cars, I was following Silver Sport Transmission’s recommended approach.
2. I’m building the car in my home garage and am limited on tools. I wasn't quite sure if I’d be able to shape such a large piece of sheet metal in a neat uniformed way.

I was also concerned that shaping a complete tunnel would be difficult without having the firewall as a point of reference. (Already cut it out). Having completed the tunnel in the manor shown on the video, I feel like using larger pieces may in fact be easier. Next time I’ll most likely fabricate it from scratch.