you can prolly get a gt tail for like $40 bux if you looked.....maybe even free.......


you'd spend $40 easy getting that crossmember fabbed up, and in that article i posted, the guy who did fab up something ended up cracking the tailshaft and having to buy one anyway......


i thought the key term everyone was using now days was "do it right the first time, it will ultimatly be cheaper."

 

oh BTW the tailhousing is a direct fit, it is EXACTLY the same on the inside and out except fot the mount point...... there will be no problems with the seals or anything....... i have done this myself !!! and if you search the net i'm sure you'll find alot of others who have too..........

 

That was great.

 

actually, reading back i saw your post and, your wrong.....

hes got an sn-95 not a fox........



the sn 95's are welded into place, you cannot move them, and there are no bolt holes of any kind..........


sorry, had to........


i've been under my mustang about 1000000 billon times had the trans out like 6 times and done about any other (mechanical wise) thing you can think of to the car..........

 

ok, i'll go through it slow this time.....

i'm not angry at anyone, i just want to be heard, i dont want you to make a small problem a big one and possibly fuck up something, i myself having already gone through this am offering a soloution.......


ford gt/v6 bodies have the trans crossmember a good bit forward of where the cobra one sits, for some reason the geniuses of SVT decided to place the crossmember farther back on the cobra bodied cars.... why ? i have no clue, as i'm sure if you called ford they wouldn't either.......


the cobra t-45 trans was made to fit this farther back crossmember, so the mount point was placed farther back, the gt t-45 (exact same in and out, asides the mount point) dits further up where the auto crossmember is.........


so, if you take the GT tailhousing off and swap it onto the cobra trans that you have, they will work perfectly, with no problems......

all you need to do this is take off the 10 or 12 bolts that hold the tailshaft on, then up on the shifter rail is a pin, use a pin punch to get that out, swap the tails, press/hammer the pin back in .... use some RTV and bolt it back up..........

it will all work perfectly, they are exactly the same asides the mount......

why ford had to do this stupid thing is a mystery...... i think ford just likes changing random things on random models for no reason...........

it is very easy, the tailshaft should be cheap, and you dont have to worry about hacking off and re welding or anything like that....


yes if you did chop that crossmember and re-weld it, it would work.... but that just seems alot harder to do than turn ten bolts and push out one pin............


your car do what you want...... i meant non of my words personally, i just want you to listen and not make a mistake......

if you have questions pm me and well swap #'s......... i'll even come up there sometime and show you what to do if you wanted, but it's realy not that hard...........


ps in my post earlier, with the noise from the tranny i used, that isnt from the tailshaft, he sold me an older cobra trans that had been beat on but works........ i just wanted it cuz i messed up my other trans 2nd gear.......


doing this to your car will not hurt it, they are the same tailshaft........ i'd even invest in a phone call to borg warner- now-tremec and ask them........ or search the net and find others who did this, i did and talked to a few guys about it, but i dont have their e mail anymore and forget where/ what site i saw it on......

good luck with the car.........

 

@ Dustin. No need to get all emotional. Ill try it your way and see if it works. If not, Im back to square one. BTW, where is a place intown to get a GT tailshaft?

 

junkards or specialty mustang shops for in town, you'll prolly find one alot cheaper and faster on the internet though........ i already had mine, so i didnt have to go through the trouble of getting one.........

i'll keep my eyes open for ya though.......

 

I looked on MPS and no luck there. They sell everything as a whole. No parts off motors, trannys, or other big items like that.

 

I can get the part thought Ford. The PN is XR3Z-7A039-BA. Dustin can you make sure of the PN for me by looking on yours?