Daz- was your set up in a 3rd gen before? I am trying to remember what car you have.
Seems like the swap is fairly straight forward? I think I am going to do it. Also heard back from a guy parting out a 97 camaro ss with 67,000km, but I like that you have the conversion cross member already.

No I never had it on a car. I got turned off by the extra cost I need to put the T56 behind a BBC. That and the extra cost to make the speedo work

Let me know me if you want to sell it, would like some more details.

Hey Mike,
How do you like the T56 set up and what gear did you end up going with?

i really like the t56 in the car, i am glad i did it(it made the car a lot more fun), as for gears i am still the 3.23 in the rear, i haven't changed them out yet, but i planned on going to 3.73.(the reason i have not is that i am a drum rear and if i was going to swap i was going to get a disc brake rear end).

The one thing i would change about my installation is to find a standard third gen car and cut the transmission tunnel to have the actual part where the shifter comes through and than weld it into my car to give it a little more strength.

Thats what I want, I want to make the GTA more fun to drive around town. I was driving a supercharged 5 spd Mustang last summer and the stick made it so much more fun to drive around the city.
I was using some rpm calculators and it looks like 4.11 would really work well with the T56.
I see what you mean with the extra strenght, I just don't know what to do with the GTA shifter plate, they are hard to find!
I am just waiting to hear back but I think I got myself a T56

Swap in the center console out of a 4th gen, I am told its easy in the 3rd gen birds, but I have never done it

4thgen console is a option, going to try to modify the auto to a manual shift plate,,if I don't find one in the meanwhile.

Picked up a trans am manual trans shifter plate for my console today!

Gratz m8

Ive never installed one but ive seen many swapped into 3rd gen birds when i go Ohio for the Nats. Looks really nice and not too out of place. Just have to make sure if you do find one its a bird one not a camaro one as they wont fit. I actually just sold my old 6 speed console not to long ago to Juice.

Where did you end up getting the trans from?

I ended up getting the set up from Daz .
Nice meeting you Daz and thanks for hooking me up!

nice to meet you. Good luck with your project