Very nice, I've always wanted to do it. It looks so bad a** to see you shifting a 4 speed with that three spoke steering wheel and riv dash.
Kimson, gives you a goal for your 66 Wildcat. Clone it to a GS Wildcat dual quad 425 with a 4spd. Could take years to do, but the result would be awesome.
You must have never driven a Muncie 4 speed with a Hurst Competition Plus shifter at your hand then.I have a little Ford escort with a five speed but that is nothing to be fascinated with but I love my Muncie,Hurst Shifter combo in my 65 Lark.There is nothing like a four speed in a muscle type car as I am sure the guy that did the conversion has found out.......Nice job........The factory should have had it as a option and if I would have kept my 70 Riv GS I sold to my brother it would have gotten the 4 speed treatment,YEAH..........Bruce
Thats awesome, I love it. Did you ever consider goin to a richmond 5 or 6 speed?? overdrive in that baby would rock. :3gears:
A 5 or 6 speed would be great for the deeper 1st and the low rpms of the OD for cruise mileage, but it was just out of my budget. As for the original console fitting, it'd near impossible since the shifter comes thru the floor hump really far forward. I also didn't want to carve up the original console. It's tucked away in basement storage. I couldn't fabricate a plate and linkage to the side of the trans to move the shifter mounting farther back due to clearance issues with the driveshaft. I had to cut and fab a couple Hurst shifters to get the angle and reach I needed. I'd have to lean way forward to reach a short, straight shifter. Just a taller shifter and my hand would smack the dash. Although somewaht odd shaped, in an elongated S, the current shifter is user-friendly. I may rig a pivot point with linkage farther back on the hump inside the car to use a short shifter more near the seats.
Yeah, do that that every working day for 2 hours in a traffic jam. Your left knee will be growing and growing........p An automatic transmission is so much better. We grow up with manual transmissions, most people in Europe don't even know how to drive a car with an automatic transmission: They use their left foot for braking....:laugh: :laugh:
I forgot to mention it previously, but due to lack of mechanical clutch actuation linkage (Z-bar, etc.) and the complexity of trying to fab one, I used hydraulic master and slave cylinders instead.
I did this same swap on a 66 Belair. In my case all i had to do was get the factory parts and weld on the mount for the z bar. Im curious, why the z bar from the impala where you got the clutch pedal wouldnt work?
We grow up with manual transmissions, most people in Europe don't even know how to drive a car with an automatic transmission: They use their left foot for braking....:laugh: :laugh:[/quote] You answered your own question. In America most of us drive a SUV with front wheel drive and automatic all week then drive are Muscle cars on the weekend.
o No: It's kind of that geometry and angles thing... B.S. and stuff like that...o No: ou: :idea2: but......here's what you need .....:idea2: :TU: :TU: http://www.v8buick.com/showthread.php?t=194530
