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[dattoman]

See if anything here helps

http://www.gmh-toran...-gearbox-in-lx/

I think you'll find people said the V8 box is abit longer than the 6

[ls2lxhatch]

The following applies to the T56, I think it also applies to the T5, give Mal Wood a call.

There is a shorter extension housing that fits without cutting through the cross member and moves the shifter to the correct postion. Mal Wood was charging $2290 to convert the Commodore T56 to the shorter housing. I think the Mal wood housing also has both mechanical and electronic speedo outputs. I think the housing and shifter setup are from the Ford T5.

There are pictures in this thread of the Mal Wood T56 behind a 308. The car is owned by antelopeslr5000 .

If you send the New TUET 6000 to me we can set it up to suit your Torana, so what we do is strip the T56 and replace the shift rail, shift block, speedo gear,rear case, shifter etc and this cost will be $1850 for the parts and
$440 labour, the gearstick will now go through the correct place in the floor.

Or alternatively you can just sell your existing T56 and purchase our Road/Race T56 already set up to fit the Torana for $5990.

The ratios of the standard Tuet 6000 are 2.66,1.78,1.3,1.0,.74,.50 and the MWA Road/Race has ratios of 2.66,1.78,1.3,1.0,.80,.63.

You will also require our underdash clutch unit @ $690, Braided line @ $160, Braided Remote bleed @ $145, New mount @ $45, New crossmember @ $195, New speedo cable @ $78, New speedo angle drive @ $125, New slip yoke @ $115

Edited by ls2lxhatch, 31 October 2011 - 01:10 AM.

[jass_hatch]

I have done exactly the same as homer has done to his hatch except I used a cross member from barsbys. If you are going to use the mechanical speedo you will need a 90 degree adaptor and some minor tunnel mods ( I just used a hammer to tap the tunnel to give the adaptor some clearance).