I may have an opportunity to buy a refurbished automatic frame in the near future. My car is a manual. I've been considering options to repair some frame rot on my car and due to the near proximity and fair price for this frame I might just do a frame swap which will result in a lot less sweat equity than doing a weeks-long frame off of my own.
I read a couple of blogs where someone was fitting a different engine or transmission to their D and they were working with an Auto frame. It required, as best I could tell, some kind of "adapter plate" to make up for the 2" or so difference in shifter height, cutting a larger hole under the shifter to accommodate the side-to-side movement, and drilling the crossgate hole.
I saw some references to a DMC EU adapter plate that is/was available. Can't find it on their website though. The blog I read used some angle-iron to lift the shifter up.
Anyone have any pictures of a vendor-supported adapter plate installed? Curious to see how it would look and be installed.
Am I missing anything else? Any other modifications or gotcha's that will trip me up if I get into this one?!?