In case you forgot...  Installing TKO in a 66 requires surgery on floors and tunnel.

Yesterday I got the driver floorpan welded in.  Last Friday, Don came over and helped me fit the JBA stainless exhaust h-pipe to the engine and drive tunnel.  I was hoping that spending tons of money on a 2-1/2" stainless exhaust from a company that says they have a perfect system would result in something that actually fit the car.  Well, I bet you know the answer to that one.  The h-pipe was built wrong and the passenger sie pipe was hard into the floor under the seat.  So I cut out the crossover pipe, bolted everything in place where it belonged and then rewelded a new crossover.  There is virtually no room left for a crossmember to fit around those big pipes, so the big TKO is going to require even MORE custom work to get it mounted. 

I will be using a 67-70 floor support crossmember beam (the one that goes over the top of the tranny) since it is thinner, but it will have to be sectioned and lengthened to reach over the top of the tranny, IF I can even get it in there due to the pipe routing.  I guarantee if the stock crossmember beam was in there, there is no way those pipes would fit this car.  I knew this would be all custom fab work, and I wanted to have the pipes in place to build the crossmember around.  I figure a custom crossmember is neater and easier than rerouting or butchering the pipes.

Tubo, your 331 is looking better all the time, my friend...