Yeah my mechanic is pretty good. He told me straight up that his goal with me isn't to make some quick money. He has lot's of high dollar customers that pay all his bills lol. He likes my car and he likes me quite a bit. And he knows I have kids. He even said that if he ever finds out I'm blowing to much money on my car and that it causes problems for me at home he won't work on it. Not to many business owners will turn away money for the sake of their customers home life lol.
OK so that's cool I can get the column shifter to work. And all I'm concerned with is being able to get in into P R N OD and D. I'm the type that just leaves the car on drive. Not a big fan of manually shifting a column shifter. And I'm also not to worried if the indicator is off a bit. I never look at it anyway lol.
And yes it's gonna be nice not having to worry about the transmission blowing up on me. I'm hoping the 7.5 will last me now lol. But since it's all rebuilt (drum to drum and everything in between), has a support cover, and the fact that I'm running stock size tires it should be OK.
Another thing we were worried about was the hood clearance. Because it has a high rise single plane intake on it. But luckily it all cleared. It's gotta be close, but it doesn't touch.
One thing that med me feel good was this. He has a cutomer that has a blown 250 in a 1980 Z28. My mechanic didn't build it, but they brought it to him to tune. They got talking about his heads (performer RPM) and he said that his heads were no good for his engine. That RPM heads are not designed for blowers and are nothing more than a nice street head. Then he points over to my car and tells him that the L82 heads in there will outflow a stock set of RPMs any day (they have had lot's of work done and been on a flow bench). So yeah, that made me feel good, I've never had good heads before.
Well I gotta go talk to him today about doing the 700r4 swap. I'll let him know about what you guys said about the transmission mount and shifter. He's pretty new to g-bodies I think. But he does have a customer with an ElCamino with a big block, 700r4, 12 bolt, and pypes exhaust. So he can ask him too.
I will keep you all updated.
OK so that's cool I can get the column shifter to work. And all I'm concerned with is being able to get in into P R N OD and D. I'm the type that just leaves the car on drive. Not a big fan of manually shifting a column shifter. And I'm also not to worried if the indicator is off a bit. I never look at it anyway lol.
And yes it's gonna be nice not having to worry about the transmission blowing up on me. I'm hoping the 7.5 will last me now lol. But since it's all rebuilt (drum to drum and everything in between), has a support cover, and the fact that I'm running stock size tires it should be OK.
Another thing we were worried about was the hood clearance. Because it has a high rise single plane intake on it. But luckily it all cleared. It's gotta be close, but it doesn't touch.
One thing that med me feel good was this. He has a cutomer that has a blown 250 in a 1980 Z28. My mechanic didn't build it, but they brought it to him to tune. They got talking about his heads (performer RPM) and he said that his heads were no good for his engine. That RPM heads are not designed for blowers and are nothing more than a nice street head. Then he points over to my car and tells him that the L82 heads in there will outflow a stock set of RPMs any day (they have had lot's of work done and been on a flow bench). So yeah, that made me feel good, I've never had good heads before.
Well I gotta go talk to him today about doing the 700r4 swap. I'll let him know about what you guys said about the transmission mount and shifter. He's pretty new to g-bodies I think. But he does have a customer with an ElCamino with a big block, 700r4, 12 bolt, and pypes exhaust. So he can ask him too.
I will keep you all updated.
