[dlisabeth]

I spent this weekend building a new transmission crossmember. The old one had been hacked up by the previous owner to install a TH350. But I would have needed to build a new one anyways to install my 700R4. I have decided to stay with drum brakes in the rear for now. There were two factors that led me to this decision the first being it will be much cheaper to just buy 5-lug drums and the second it would be much easier to maintain a working e-brake. With that being said I utilized some pieces of the old e-brake setup and made a few new pieces and ended up with what you see in the photos. It works great and allows me to use the oem cables and lengths while still fitting in the tight confines between the crossmember and trans. This 700R4 was out of a '91 Corvette so I had to replace the rear tailhousing with the unit in the photos. This is a fairly rare tailhousing which moves the trans mount quite a bit further back than the mount on most 700R4's. I am very happy with how this crossmember turned out. Now I just need to get the driveshaft shortened and shim the pinion with the correct shim once I decide on a final ride height.