I went over to a guys house this morning to look at a few cars. He ended up showing me a tremec 6 speed that came out of a supercharged mustang. The car burned up and all he had left was the tranny. It seems aweful long to fit into a classic. It had a plate about mid way to move the shifter. Will these work in a 68 and is it worth $650? Is it the same to install this as it would be to install a 5 speed?
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You might be able to pull some useful info from eitherhere orhere. Basically, I think you're in for lifting the tunnel over a little bit longer section than you'd have to for a 3550 5-speed. Apparently, there's a crossmember mod involved in addition to the usual driveshaft work.

Hopefully you'll get some expert suggestions on how to evaluate thecondition, both from previous use/abuse and from the fire (too hot, for too long, sounds like possible case distortion to me). I'd at least want to watch the fluid as it's beingdrained out.


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if thats of an 03-04 cobra then the bell housing is for a 4.6 abnd wont match up ,

if you can remove the bell housing you can get a spacer and then the custom trans mount, then its just getting the drive line modified.

it is only worth it if the bell housing is removable ! ! ! ! !

i just did a t5 swap into a 67 stang

 

Its a T56, and if it was out of a supercharged car it would have been an 03/04 Cobra and ys it is worth every penny if it runs well and you can get it for $650, I paid $1300 for mine. The mid plate is not for relocating the shifter. Did it look like this:

it is about 3" longer than a T5, the input shaft is the same length and for a Cobra will have the same 10 splune clutch.

There is an adapter bellhousing to mount the T56 behind a sbf engine. I made my own adapter to mount the tranny to the lakewood bellhousing in the first picture. I installed it in my 66 coupe, had to cut the trans tunnel some:


My drive shaft is much shorter than my T5 driveshaft. I also had to use a different slip yoke, and fab up a new tranny crossmember. Oh, if you have an X pipe or H pipe you will need modify your exhaust to clear the crossmember. I had the Magnaflow 3" kit and had to make some modifications to get it all to fit. With the Cobra tranny I think you can use the regular 302/351 pilot bearing.