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Originally Posted by fordracing65
Do a google search and see how many high performance project cars cut the crossmember, and your not cutting the crossmember OUT, your cutting it and bolting it back in, its still in place. Take out the seats and pull up the carpet and remove the trans tunnel if you like.
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Yes, I will continue to remove a BOLT IN seat and a SCREW IN tunnel rather than
CUT a structural member. Google is not the shop manual of proper high performance vehicle repairs in my shop. Please, by all means cut the crossmembers out of your Kirkham, but don't tell Superformance owners to do so.
Sorta like the Jag dealer here in town that in the 60's could do a clutch in an E type in under 4 hours. This job requires the engine and transmission be removed to PROPERLY do the job. That they torched the crossmember out and then "welded" it back in place was of no concern to them until one day a customer's E dropped the crossmember going over a rough railroad crossing. The lawsuit and settlement more than ate up the extra profits they made for charging 12 hours labor when they took 4...................................
