Convince me to put a TKX in my Dart

340sFastback said

Sounds like you have aptitude/skills to get it to fit/work which is good. I am getting ready to order a T56 Magnum kit from them in a couple of weeks. Thanks to your feedback I now know this shifter coming up in middle of console opening is something that needs to be discussed with them. I know how to weld/fab ect but I would like for them to deliver on what they promise.

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Now that I think about it, I bet if you flipped the shifter position to the position closer to the firewall and used the shift adapter that places the shifter closer to the driver side (Tremec TKX conversion in A-body!), I bet that would put the shifter in about the same position as stock and around the same position mine is in with the home made adapter.

But what I forgot to mention in my first post was that I used the BHS578 crossmember hoop instead of just merely cutting the torsion bar crossmember and leaving it disconnected at the top. If you use this hoop, you can't flip the shifter position because the hoop blocks it. You'd have to fab up something much more difficult than a shifter adapter in order to be able to have some sort of hoop across the top as well as the shifter position flipped. That or buy that bigger crossmember hoop but that means your floor hump is going to be quite a bit bigger.

The fabrication was pretty simple. I just cut two small pieces of flat stock and put them together to create a spacer. Then I cut another piece long enough to move the shifter forward. Tacked the flat stock together, drilled 4 holes and that's all it took. I'm not very good at this so if I can do it, anyone can lol