Bbody 4 speed
curious. If one where to go that route. Wouldn't the shifter be in a bad position?
Actually, I have put a long-tail into my 68 Barracuda (360 engine); the rear mount is in the same place as all A833s. All you need are:
1) a shorter driveshaft, With a matching front yoke; and
2) if a B/E body tail, then you have to grind a bit off the front shifter-mount so it will fit inside the T-Bar X-member without rubbing; and
3) you have to fabricate a new shifter plate to use the rear-most mounting pad.
>>As for the mounting pad;
I never liked the factory location, but with a benchseat, yur sorta married to it. I have buckets; so I took this opportunity to make a new adapter, to move the shifter back a good 7 inches, moving it a bit over towards my thigh. I installed a fairly short stick, (a Mr. Gasket BANG! Shifter circa 1971). And finally, I purchased some tubing, big enough to insert and weld in, the cut-off parts of the shift-rods on one end; and just the right size to tap the other ends for the adjusters, and bent them to fit.
Now I can hammer that stick with my back firmly glued to the seat-back. Missed shifts are a thing of the past.
>But if your trans has the larger(4.8") front retainer on it, and your BH is only 4.35"(FactoryStock for SBMs), you will have to deal with that. There are three ways;
1) machine the retainer to fit,(not sure if that s possible)
2) purchase the proper one from DC (if still available)/or Brewers, or
3) get a BH off an overdrive A833, and/or the matching front retainer, or alternatively, machine an adapter ring to install your whatever-sized retainer into the 5.125 hole. If you get the od BH, make sure to also get TO-fork and it's pivot, plus the Z-bar anchor; as they are all different.
