A new suspension brace must be fabricated to clear the transmission mount.  It’s about 1.5″ mong and designed for the 6 speed which has a mount about 5″ forward in the car where the floor pan is in this car.

 

Factory Brace
Factory Brace
Factory Brace
Red is where it needs to be, Yelllow is how close it gets. About1.5″
Too low, interferes with crossmember

 

 

The solution is to make a Chromoly steel (4310) brace out of 1″ 0.092 tubings and 1″x2″ “C” channel.

Click on the photo for an STL model which can be viewed in any 3D software.

Second Gen was square tube but that was not low enough so we redesigned and manufactured

 

This is shown upside down.  It was completed 6/1 and epoxy coated to match the rear suspension.