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Motorcity,

I just purchased a custom length tilt column from Flaming River to replace the original GM column that I used when I built the car in 1990. Flaming River has a column mount drop bracket that I welded a new small angle bracket on the cowl bar to receive the Flaming river drop. This was a very simple process, just required to remove dash panel and fabricate a small bracket. This was FAR superior to CR's original single bolt set-up.

Flaming river also manufactures numerous plates with a swivel bearing for firewall protrusion. These are all very high quality and superior to the original CR design of the column support on the firewall of only the fiberglass firewall itself. Due to the limited space on the CR firewall, I purchased a support for an F-150 firewall protrusion and simple cut the plate down to fit in the area on CR cobra. After final cutting, drilling small holes for 1/4-20 bolts to affix to the firewall, I polished the aluminum plate and it looks great. This set-up is far superior to the original column design from CR.

A side note, I purchased a Tilt/NO KEY column as I never did care for the "Square GM style key" used for ignition and accessory. I added a separate ignition switch mounted just right of the column in the dash. No more GM style key.