Transmission Tunnel Part2

After I had the tunnel out of the omega I could start to do some damage to the viva. Up to this point I had done nothing that would damage the cars original status. Sorry to say but all originality has now gone. First of all I measured the size of the tunnel I cut out from the omega against the viva. This gave me an idea on where to start i then measured out the length from the mounts on cross member to the mounts on the gearbox. But i noticed that the tunnel had a lot of bracket points to where you could bolt the gearbox. This must be for different engine types. So length was not a mojor issue. So height i hovered the engine on the crane to roughly where the engine would sit. I could weld the tunnel to the floor of the car and get away with height no problem they matched perfectly.

So i marked on the inside where i would need to start cutting by laying the tunnel inside the car this gave me a great outline. So i took a deep breath and cut the tunnel out at about 3cm in from my line so that i would hav a lip to weld to.Next i lined up the new tunnel in the great whole in my car. It look like something out of a cheap flinstones movie. I made sure that i was sitting level and tacked the new tunnel in place.