Lazs
I had to have the drive shaft shortend, so I just had a new one made up. The Richmond gear instructions say to shorten the front yoke on the shadft it uses a turbo 400 front yoke, but it needs to be shortend so it doesnt hit the speedo gear in the tranny, local shop did a whole new drive shaft including the shorten of the yoke for 100 bucks.
The stock crossmember worked ok, I just had to drill new holes for it.
The hard part was the tunnel, the richmond is taller then the munchie was so we ended up cutting a fairly large section out of the floor, then taking a donor section from a parts GTO bending it a little and bolting that in, this worked out well, cause we could ajust the shifter linkage from above.
The shifter is from a company called LONG, and shifts pretty good, with just a little more resistance then the hurst on the muncie did, but I am told once you get a few miles on it it smooths right out.
with 331 gears you will prolly be very close to that 2000 rpm cruse!
Tranny uses standard GM speedo gears that any shop should be able to supply.