sm465 to Nv4500
 

Does the floor need to be cut to make room for the transmission and transfer case shifters with an nv4500 swap. It is a pre 1995 nv4500.

The truck is an 86 1 ton with a 350SBC, sm465, and a np205

Re: sm465 to Nv4500
 

The NV4500 will fit under the floor just fine. the only thing you will have to cut is a new hole for your transmission shifter because the shifter on the nv4500 is about 4 to 5 inches farther back. Most people just get a floor hump from an automatic truck and cut the new hole. Im not exactly sure if the location of the t-case shifter changes.

Re: sm465 to Nv4500
 

This might help http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...d.php?t=431033

Re: sm465 to Nv4500
 

Not the best pic I'm afraid, but maybe you can make out how the NV4500 sits in the floor of my truck. It's an original SM465 truck.

Re: sm465 to Nv4500
 

I had a truck with a n4500 with a 205 transfercase. when I got the truck they had a piece of mud flap and towel wraped around the 2 shifters. The trans shifter and the 205 shifter were almost side by side, infact the hole for the trans and transfercase were not divided. I used a shifter boot out of a 95 chevy truck with a nv4500 and the stock 205 shifter boot. I had to do a little fabing and conect the 2 boots together at the mounting rings, its been a long while back can't seem to remember why I didn't weld a strip between the 2 shifter holes. I didn't cut the hole for the nv 4500 so I don't know if a strip of floorboard between the two shifters could have been saved. The transfercase shifter location remained in the same location as stock.