
11-06-2007, 08:21 PM
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Senior Club Cobra Member
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Join Date: Feb 2005
Cobra Make, Engine: Contemporary, FE, Tremec TKO 600
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Anyone have a C4 auto they can measure for me?
I bought a car with a C4 automatic in it. One hour after I got it home the transmission was in the trash. Really - no joke. Once I put the car back together, it'll have a Tremec TKO600 in it. Here's my problem. My background is Chevy, where all Chevy engines and all Chevy transmissions fit all Chevy cars. EVERYTHING is interchangeable. As I found out after the fact, this is NOT so with Ford. Soooooo..........seeing as how my car has a welded in transmission crossmember, I have to now try to figure out if the mount on that crossmember is in the right place so that using the proper transmission mount the Tremec will be mountable to crossmember that used to hold the rear of the C4 automatic. Can anyone who happens to have a C4 automatic laying around measure from the face of the transmission/block mounting surface (basically the front surface of the bellhousing) to the centerline of the rear transmission mount holes on the tailshaft? This is my first Ford, and I'm loving it. However, they sure don't make swapping engines and transmissions easy. I'd love to replace my Cleveland with an FE, but that means cutting out the mounts and rewelding in a new fabricated set. I'm not much of a fabricator at all, so I'm just not going to bother. I'm hoping now that I don't have to cut and weld a new transmission crossmember in.
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