Just fitted a T5 to my 350 RS.
There is now a doubt if the bellhousing I was supplied is the correct one!
Have a look at the photo and will someone tell me if it looks correct?

Thanks.
Andy.

 

i believe the machined surface for the shifter should be level, or damn close to level fore to aft and side to side.

 

The shifter flage should be pretty much horizontal.
The trans does bolt onto the bellhousing at an angle, but installed, the shifter base should be flat.
Not sure what you've got going on there.
-Rich-

 

Same here. That's not how it should be.

 

Well we all agree that GM mounts the T5s at an angle in FBodies, right ? If that's true, why would the shifter flange be STRAIGHT ? All T5s I've ever seen have the flange at at an agle JUST like in that picture above.

 

The flange is at an angle, but the trans bolts to the bellhousing at an angle in the opposite direction.
End result:level.
-Rich-

 

I'm not sure, but I think I remember a friend of mine's IROC having the shifter at about that angle...... It definately had an angle to it, but I don't know if it was that much.... He was installing a Ripper shifter when I saw it and the shifter itself had an angle in it to counter-act the mounting angle and it ended up coming out of the console pretty much straight up if I remember correctly.

 

Thanks to all!
I have just spoke to Jim at thirdgenparts and even he wasn't quite sure about the angle! But, the slave cylinder holes are not correct anyway! See my other thread !
So, yet again, Jim is sending to the UK a bellhousing! Transmission coming out again then!

We think that it is from a G body originally!

thanks again.
Andy.

 

That angle installed IS correct. Absolutely, unequivocably, without-a-doubt, correct.

I've changed mine out 3X, helped many of my friends with theirs, and they are ALL (F-body, that is) at that angle when installed.

BW only made 1 tranny case and rear extension. They can be found on our cars, also Rustangs, and even Jeeps. Just different ratios, input/output shafts and clutch engagements.

For some silly reason, the GM engineers rotated the installed angle of the tranny over 18*, possibly to allow for the exhaust routing.

The shifter is angled backward the same amount making the stick stand straight up instead of angled (which would make more sense, have you ever shifted in a 'stang? It's sweet! Shifter lays right in the palm of your hand)

Don't worry Andy, things are going just fine! Relax, it'll get put together!

 

That looks the same as mine when it's bolted in the car.

 

There are literally dozens of extension housings for those things. In S trucks, different years of them even have the shifter pad moved forward or rearward of others. In our cars, the trans mount pad is at an angle with respect to everything. Our cars also have a torque arm mount totally unlike any other chassis, again S trucks for instance.

You can get better shifters than the factory bowl-of-oatmeal-feeling thing. That has nothing to do with the shifter pad angle, or whether the handle is bent. I recall one Rustang owner years ago (86 or 87 maybe) who came by my house, and told me how he hated his POS F*rd shifter (their handle was about 3 feet tall in those days). I told him about mine (Hurst), had him go shift it without the car even running; after shifting mine, he left my house and drove straight to RHS a couple of blocks down the street and bought himself one.

Andy has another BH coming, he definitely has some sort of malfunction going on there, hopefully that will fix it; wherever the shifter pad ends up once he has the right BH, he can be assured it's the right place.

 

The angle is correct, the shifter is shaped to compensate.