Tremec tranny question

[408cobra]

I purchased mine from Fortes as well. I also went with a Mcleod steel bellhousing from them as well nice unit and may save your legs if your flywheel seperates from your engine. This is a rare occurence but I spoke to a guy racing a chevy nova and this happened ...the flywheel cut right through the car and exited the windsheild vertically and he said it looked like a buzz saw cut a perfect slot through the car luckily it missed his legs. I trimmed the Mcleod about 3/4 of an inch on the bottom so it would not be lower than the frame rails. I would also use through bolts to connect the rear tranny mount to the car as the bolts tend to fall out because they thread into aluminum. This issue has happened to others regardless if they used lock washers or not. My tranny was swinging left to right on acceleration and I did not even notice anything was wrong until the end of the season inspection scary. I drilled the tranny holes out and through bolted them with grade 8 bolts and friction nuts and have not had any problems since.