[rbgray1]

Motor City,

I was slightly wrong, the firewall protrusion that Flaming River offers is for an F-100. The reason I bought this unit is that it has a large aluminum plate that the swivel hub is mounted to. This allowed me to cut down the overall plate dimensions to fit into the small space on the CR1 firewall protrusion.

You can see this item on Flaming River's website if you review the accessories. I'm pretty fortunate as I live in the Cleveland Ohio area and Flaming River is about a 10 minute drive from my house, I just walked in with my old set-up and worked with one of their customer service people to determine what would work best. Another interesting note is that the column they made me is a "custom" size and still only took them 3-4 days to make to match up with the POS Chevette Tilt column that the CR1 originally called for.

I'd love to send pics, but this was the first thing I did to the CR1 I built 26 years ago before completely dismantling. I currently have the body off and going through suspension upgrades, riv nut installation for all body mount points (rather than silly self tapping screws that CR called for, etc. I can send you a copy of my invoice from Flaming River so you can see the parts list if you want? Send me your email address.

I also spent a little more on the fully polished column, it looked fantastic before I dismantled the interior, far better than a POS GM column in a predominantly Ford product. I'm not a GM hater, I also own a 2010 C6 Vette I bought new.

Let me know if you need a copy of my Flaming River Invoice.