Gear Vendor OD Blues RE: 73 Duster

Howard1784 said
A shop was installing my GV in a 73 Duster (904) and I was told that the unit will stick out 2 inches above the floor pan into the interior. They do not do fabrications so it was not installed. Anyone out there with a 73 have any install tips?
So much for "massaging" the sheet metal and was not anticipating serious tunnel fab. A few hammer blows as so many forums indicated does not apply to this A body!

I called GV for help and received the following response: "We build GV for cars, we dont build cars for GV. Your car was probably highly modified incorrectly and you didnt know it" ie: engine/trans way out of alignment, incorrect mounts everywhere, everything shimmed. Incorrect trans mount........
He refused to believe it was not "highly modified")WTF??????
Thanks for nothing a$$wipe. He stated when they used to install them he always removed the ENTIRE tunnels first. Thanks for nothing! Anyway, I dont want my floorplan to look and sound like a turbo sticking out. Rant over. FU GV!

That sucks! Hopefully they didn't get too far into the install before they determined there were clearance issues. Are there no pictures available? Which part number is your Gear Vendors kit? Do you have pictures of the GV unit with tailshaft?

USCartool makes modified cross-members that lower the transmission mount's location. I'm not sure if that would leave you with an incorrect pinion angle, but it might be worth looking into since you already have the GV.

I drove Mike Musto's Charger with a GV and was not impressed. It felt to me like it was half-overdrive making it not worth doing in my book. Also, the concept that you are going to split all your gears by shifting it in and out and making the car accelerate harder is far-fetched. There may be a person or two that can operate it like that, but I've never seen a video of anyone doing it. There are vastly superior ways of getting over-drive in our old cars.