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12-01-2023, 01:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: SEQUIM,
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Glen, sounds like your motor and transmission mounts are further back. Does it seem alright in the forward position?
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12-03-2023, 12:28 AM
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Location: Adelaide,
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Cobra Make, Engine: AP 289FIA 'English' spec.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jknich
Glen, sounds like your motor and transmission mounts are further back. Does it seem alright in the forward position?
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Jim, my engine mounts are where other Pace cars with Windsor engines have their engine mounts, and the trans mount is correct for my TKX, so 'no banana' yet 
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12-03-2023, 03:04 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jknich
Glen, sounds like your motor and transmission mounts are further back. Does it seem alright in the forward position?
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Jim, engine mount locations are in the correct location (pre-drilled) which places the engine as far rearward in the engine bay as possible, and exactly as the design intention.
Cheers,
Glen |
12-03-2023, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Chandler,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 289 FIA #2102, Keith Craft 427W
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Maybe this helps.
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12-03-2023, 04:29 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2020
Location: Chandler,
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA 289 FIA #2102, Keith Craft 427W
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Looking at the picture again, I believe they misplaced the two lower images, the Ford unit should be on the left.
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12-03-2023, 04:44 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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That's pretty helpful, not just for this thread but for others deciding on their trans. and where it will land. I will note that a lot of us use a GM TKO in our FEs and just use a 26 spline driven disk.
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12-03-2023, 04:48 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: ERA #732, 428FE (447 CID), TKO600, Solid Flat Tappet Cam, Tons of Aluminum
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That's pretty helpful, not just for this thread but for others deciding on their trans. and where it will land. I will note that a lot of us use a GM TKO in our FEs and just use a 26 spline driven disk.
<if this post appears twice it's because the shi**y site's software made my first post invisible>
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12-03-2023, 09:51 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Gilroy,
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Cobra Make, Engine: SPF 2291, Whipple Blown & Injected 4V ModMotor
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Duplicate post for all the same reasons Patrick already tagged.
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12-04-2023, 12:25 PM
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Cobra Make, Engine: Unique Motorcars 289 USRRC, 1964 289 stroked to 331, toploader
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Ok,...
...this is a pic of an original, unrestored 427 Cobra toploader posted by Dan "the Man" Case on another forum. As you all know, his knowledge runs deep! Hope you don't mind me bringing it over here, Dan! Notice that there are two sets of shifter mounting bosses on this tail housing, which could locate the shifter in the two different positions for other Ford vehicles. Some toploaders came with the two sets of mounting bosses and some came with only one or the other. Complicating this is the fact that there are other tail housings with other mounting positions.
From your other thread, it looks like your original toploader transmission has the correct location for the 427 car, which seems like the toploader for the mid-sized Ford cars, like the Fairlane. The 289 car needs the longer Galaxie/Torino full-sized toploader tail housing for correct shifter location. Unfortunately, that might mean that your original tunnel hole is too far back...
Perhaps Dan will chime in here and help to clarify the situation.
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Unique Motorcars 289 USRRC
1964 289 5-bolt block
Toploader and 3.31 rear
Last edited by PDUB; 12-04-2023 at 12:33 PM..
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12-05-2023, 06:52 PM
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Paul,
The hole that I cut in the tunnel some time ago was in the position specified in the assembly manual supplied with my 'kit'. Sitting in the car, that location appeared to be the correct location for a 289 car's gearshift.
Brett's car has the gearshift hole in the same location as my gearshift hole (as specified in the assembly manual) and he uses the middle location of the three available. As far as the Toploader goes, that part of the story is now (unfortunately) history.
So, the story may, in time, unravel further. If so, I will definitely post it here.
All comments appreciated, and if there's a lightbulb moment  that explains it for you (or for me), please post it here...
Cheers!
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