[SoCoNoHa]

So here's my crossmember finally! It's more of a first draft just to get the car on the road. I've welded my trans mount directly to the crossmember so... I'll get back to you on the ride quality...

There's about 19 1/8 inches between the side of the svx trans mount where I welded and the torque bar. I used a 1 inch tube of 1/8th inch steel, seemed sturdy enough in short pieces. The passenger side cross bar goes parallel with the car front to back, and attaches right at the bend on both crossmember and torque bar. The driver side cross bar has to angle outward from the svx trans crossmember because the manual trans mount has an uneven side. This puts the attachment point just outside of the bend on the torque bar.

For the mount, I welded the metal piece that bolts to the trans directly to the cross bars. This means I won't be using the rubber part of the mount, and will probly provide quite a rough ride. But like I said, I need this car on the road yesterday. I'll put up with any vibration with a smile as long as I'm the one doing the shifting! At least until the next nice weekend.

I recommend tacking things in place with everything bolted snugly. I tried to mark it and tack it off the car, just wasted time breaking apart tack welds.

You'll also notice I notched out the svx trans crossmember. This is because there's a couple studs and a flange on the 5mt that it would otherwise hang up on.