Recent content by Buck Atwater

When I put the 4 speed in my 80 Mirada I used an early 70's A body bellhousing and everything fit fine. You just need to match the bearing diameter of your gearbox to bellhousing. (4.35" or 5.125") and you'll need to use an LA360 flywheel.

I used the cheapo Heddman 78050 headers on mine. They fit fine, no bashing of tubes or inner fenders needed. Though one of the pipes does come close to the inner fender on the passenger side. You have to remove the transmission brace on the passenger side too. The instructions mentioned about...

I've had it on the road a little last year and have been driving it this year and it's been great so far. Other than a slight leak at the reverse switch, no problems with the gearbox and I didn't rebuild it. Lots more fun than the automatic even though the car was fun before. Need to take some...

The floor hump came from a Volare 4 speed car I believe. I got it from a guy on Moparts years ago. It fit the floor perfectly I basically just cut the floor out about 1" inside the perimeter of hump, being careful to just cut the floor by the transmission crossmember and not the crossmember itself

It's a best of Alice Cooper lol. Thanks for the compliments guys. Another thing I forgot to mention was the Z bar mount on the frame. On an F body the z bar mount is extra piece welded into the frame pocket. Like this: The hole and cutout for the Z bar in the frame rail is already there. I...

I posted in another thread a few years ago about the pedal assembly. But basically you can't use the F body pedal support bracket as is because it's shorter than the J body one, and doesn't reach the steering column support bracket. I don't have many pics but all you have to do is use the longer...

The clutch setup is all factory parts. A mix of A body and F body. The clutch rod and Z bar are F body, the hole is already in the firewall for the clutch rod, it just has a blank plug in it, but accepts the factory clutch rod boot. The bellhousing and throwout fork are 68-70 A body just stuff I...

It's basically a recreation of the one that rusted out using another car. Even down to the mr horsepower sticker in the window lol

I thought I'd finally post some pics of my '80 Mirada I converted to a 4 speed and got back on the road after 5 years or so. I posted some progress pics in the old 'lets see them j bods' thread a few years ago but never really got around to posting much more other than when I went through the...

I think this is the part you need? 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 Chrysler Cordoba Dodge Mirada windshield wiper repair kit | eBay I believe it's the same part used on Cordobas and Magnums too. The originals are prone to falling apart when they get old,and these are supposed to be made out of more...

Collectors Auto Supply sells the 8 piece kit for Mirada/Cordoba window felts. I bought a set in 2013 but didn't bother using the inners since the old ones were fine. It doesn't fit all that great as the profile of the metal backing is slightly different than the original, and many of the holes...

Gathered up from ebay and various sites like this and moparts over the years, never got around to installing it until last year or so. The trans is '68 A body, as is the shifter. The shifter rods and clutch rod/adjuster I got from Brewers. Z bar and bellhousing were ebay I think. The hump is...

I found a picture of a members car in another thread. What i ended up doing wasn't the most elegant solution but it was the simplest. I just took a piece of 2" x 1/8 flatbar about 5" long and bolted it to the frame rail and fender apron with 3/8 bolts. It put the Z bar in the right place and...

Anyone with a manual transmission F body able to take a pic of the frame side bracket for the Z bar stud? I'm converting my Mirada over to a 4 speed and was wondering if I could make something to duplicate the factory setup. The 1980 service manual I have doesn't show it clearly.

This is the tag that was on it. Interesting that it was made in 2013, so there should be a few more of these floating around somewhere?