hey all
am about a month away from getting my coupe painted (tossing up between red an metalic silver with a purple pearl??????) is it a wise move to get someone to modify the trans tunnel b4 i get it painted? i "might" put a ca in down the track/ how much will it cost for a metal fabrication place to enlage it? an where does the modification need to be done? many thanx

firstly decide if or not u will put a ca in. once decided (and if u choose to put 1 in) then tunnel mods need to be done from the firewall, to past the handbrake somewhere. u need to "blow up" the tunnel to fit the larger tranny in, also cut a new hole for the shifter to poke thru.
Cost: depending on how much experience the shop has at this sorta job as to how long it will take as to how much it will cost.
once u get all this done, then choose paint colours and pearls.

When Kev fitted my CA the only part of the trans tunnel he needed to modify was the top of the tunnel where the new shifter went. This was cut away and a piece of thin sheet metal was welded in to allow room around where the new shiffter went and to cover up the old shifter hole. There were no firewall mods at all.

It really depends on how showy your car is going to be. If it's going to be a show car with a detailed undercarriage then doing it pre painting would be wise but if it's an everyday car the carpet is going to cover the mod anyway.
Matty

hey matty how much roughly did it cost for someone else to do the conversion? did you have a manual tunnel b4 the conversion

its just an every day car
thanx

Hi Pager
I honestly couldn't remember how much it cost. If you know your way around a car and have a couple of mates who can help you my advice would be to do it yourself. I would've loved to have had a crack at it myself but a lack of talent and working all the time prevented it. My car was a manual originally.

go to datnet and look for the icon at the top of the page for nexcent performance. com. go to that and they have fabricated tunnels for a ca conversion in a 1200
Mat

with kevs conversion cross members there are two tunnel mods thats getting rid of the standard gbox mounts and cutting the new shifter hole and it dosent need to be the auto tunnel came from kevs mouth last saturday when i picked up my new wire loom