Has anyone used a chassis engineering 32 center crossmember with a t5 5 speed or any manual tranmission? I have one of their pedal assemblies with a brake and clutch pedal. Their tech support guy said it is nearly impossible to make that combo work. He said not enough clutch pedal travel. anyone?
I cant answer your question about that but! I am using their 35 chevy motor mounts and trans cross member I followed the directions for the motor mounts measuring 14-5/8" back from the center rivet of the front cross member to the center of the motor mount. Drilled the holes bolted the mounts and engine in, hung the tranny on the back of the engine, put the tranny cross member in and the holes dont match up with the tranny. I have to move the motor mounts foward about 1 inch. But its my fault I followed the directions. And thats my advise to you dont follow the directions! Gary
VAPHEAD told me the t-10 4 speed trannys and t5 5 speed trannys wont fit. muncie 4 speed trannys will work in the center crossmember - with a little trimming maybe. i'm sure Eric will chime in about it. Swing pedals maybe be your only option due to lack of room down there.
What difference would it make,4or5 speed,it's the same bellhousing , &throwout fork, there is clearance issues on the top & bottom crossmember center plates, how about hydraulic or cable setup? I'M doing the same setup,but not far enough along to share pics that would help.
The new StreetRodder has an article on this,looked quick tonight at Walmart's,mine as always is not here yet in the mail!
The yellow Tudor in my avatar has a Tremec 5spd, CE center, CE pedals. Hydraulic throw out bearing, wilwood master cylinder. It will work. And no, I have no pictures of it. They were gone two computer crashes ago.
Talked to ce on the phone about the ionia way of putting those pedals in and they had nothing good to say about that story in streetrodder,they seem to think a 39-40 stock pedal would work better but it would also need mods?
We do it all the time, our x-member with their pedal assembly. You need to clearance the upper flange and modify the 3" hole forward of the assembly mount to gain the clearances needed for the clutch pedal. Chassis Engineering doesn't like selling them because they have to take the time and answer questions....It's not that big of deal. I will put some pictures up later of how we do it. Matt Lesky Ionia Hot Rod Shop
It means Back To The Top also check this thread on the same thing http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=284892&highlight=ce
I did it with a Howe thrrowout bearing, Pete and Jakes pedals from Vaphead. We reconfigured the X member to include the pedal assembly. There's a picture on the other thread.
Here are some pictures of two ways we have done them. One is Hyd. Clutch the other is Mechanical, both will work just fine...Sorry for the blue tint in the Mechanical set up, the shop is full and in order to get the 125c roadster out of here and off to California we have to push some projects outside in the morning. Sorry for the bracing getting in the way in a couple of those the lower 4-5 inches has to be replaced and all the sub rails were replaced. So that is the mechanical set up... Now the Hydraulic set up, we make a piece that sandwiches between the brake m/c which runs laterally to the boxing plate to hold the Clutch m/c (wilwood part# 260-1304 3/4" bore w/ reservoir). We did not "finish" this build, it left for California to be finished up, so I'm not sure what they are running for the slave. Disregard the fact that we moved the mounting provision back 7/8", this is only done on our A-V8 frames and does not pertain to this discussion. We also finish everything off rounding corners and adding doubler plates where we clearance. Hope this helps show what you got to do, it is a little work but anything will fit with a little welding and grinding!!
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