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Old 04-24-2019, 08:10 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by spitfire481 View Post
You can’t modify the tunnel without installing an engine and trans. You can’t do that without doing everything involved with mounting the engine and trans. There are a bunch of parts that need to be mounted to route ac and heater lines. There are far to many variables that make doing a very partial install not worth it. One thing could change during your install and stuff we have done would be wrong
Ok, let me tackle it from the other angle, then...what can be left out while doing enough (mounting the engine and trans, modifying tunnel, etc.) to get the engine and trans mounted and operational? Do the stock twins, stock turbo manifold need to be ditched and swapped out with the single that will eventually go there? Are you saying all bolt-on's need to already be placed by the fabrication shop to mount the engine/trans and therefore modify the trans tunnel?

I appreciate the clarity, but just seeing how 'complete' the install from a shop (like yours) needs to be just to get basic functionality with A/C, heat, radiator hoses routed/added seems to be the only unclear variable when asking the next question, which becomes: what's the labor cost for those elements, or rather, how much time (again, ballpark, not looking for something like 18.75 hours) would that take in labor hours?

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