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Originally Posted by Pete Munroe
The VERY EXPERIENCED race fabricator that did my side pipes recommended AGAINST cutting off the lower flange as the housing would warp and be impossible to align.
OK, I HAD to cut the lower flange cutoff and apparently the thing warped enough that the hole for the transmission was "out of round"...I spent hours with the "offset ground" alignment dowels. The bell-housing got tweaked, measured, tweaked, measured in every direction...warped...or...maybe was never right to begin with.
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Just curious... Could the Lakewood first be aligned with the flange intact, then assembled with the engine/tranny and installed in the car, and finally have the flange ground off with the car on a lift? Once the alignment is done and everything is bolted in place, you should be able to take the flange off without compromising the alignment. The only problem I can see is that your first clutch replacement might require a new bellhousing, since removing all the bolts would allow the steel to move.
-Eric