Dave999
Well-Known Member
Was digging through some images and found this....
its a Tremec 3550 that has had the front of the rear shifter housing machined flat down to the rail, and a 1 piece cover fitted over the mid shift position and the newly machined rear shifter housing front part, looks like it fits against the front of the remainder of the rear shift box and then under the red shifter base, sealing all 3 parts, you can see a glint of gold under the position of the rear bolt holding the red shifter base down.
guess it raises the shifter base(red bit) an inconsequential amount or the bush in the offset lever below is shimmed up slightly with a washer under the rim of its Top hat
seemingly fits without crossmember cut out and removal.
But still needs top of tunnel cut out in front of it, because of the amount of case and cover above the input shaft centre line is still pretty large i.e too wide for standard tunnel side to side.
seems to work on a 3550 because the shift rail is tight to the top of the tail shaft tunnel,
won't work on a T5 because the shift rail is 1 inch or more higher then the tail shaft tunnel i.e way higher than the shift rail position shown below. i.e it would want to pass right through the stand-out part of the cross member hump, the lowest part of the pressed section. Take that extra inch out of the equation, I'd guess the 3550 shift rail would pass under.
presume this is a very early Keisler modified box....
uses a single rail shifter into the mid box that has a 3 rail shifting mechanism by the look of things... similar to some of the current bigger tremec boxes...i.e that mid position box is going to have a few components in it linking the 2 styles of shift rail, so it can't be hacked off.... but the front section of the red shifter base has been, i think
Dave
its a Tremec 3550 that has had the front of the rear shifter housing machined flat down to the rail, and a 1 piece cover fitted over the mid shift position and the newly machined rear shifter housing front part, looks like it fits against the front of the remainder of the rear shift box and then under the red shifter base, sealing all 3 parts, you can see a glint of gold under the position of the rear bolt holding the red shifter base down.
guess it raises the shifter base(red bit) an inconsequential amount or the bush in the offset lever below is shimmed up slightly with a washer under the rim of its Top hat
seemingly fits without crossmember cut out and removal.
But still needs top of tunnel cut out in front of it, because of the amount of case and cover above the input shaft centre line is still pretty large i.e too wide for standard tunnel side to side.
seems to work on a 3550 because the shift rail is tight to the top of the tail shaft tunnel,
won't work on a T5 because the shift rail is 1 inch or more higher then the tail shaft tunnel i.e way higher than the shift rail position shown below. i.e it would want to pass right through the stand-out part of the cross member hump, the lowest part of the pressed section. Take that extra inch out of the equation, I'd guess the 3550 shift rail would pass under.
presume this is a very early Keisler modified box....
uses a single rail shifter into the mid box that has a 3 rail shifting mechanism by the look of things... similar to some of the current bigger tremec boxes...i.e that mid position box is going to have a few components in it linking the 2 styles of shift rail, so it can't be hacked off.... but the front section of the red shifter base has been, i think
Dave
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