New Transmission (Overhead View)

Within days of the 283-to-350 engine swap, I loaded all my shit into the car and left Orange County for good.  7 hours later, the Impala and I were at our new home in the Bay Area. The 2-speed Powerglide automatic was working fine, but it was too much of a dog, even with a 4-barrel 350 under the hood.  Clearly it was time to move the car into the late 60s with the dime-a-dozen TH350 transmission.  The TH350 was installed in everything from Vegas to vans, so a cheap rebuilt unit was cheap and easily obtained.  The installation was a medium-sized pain in the ass; some brackets needed fabricating to rig the Powerglide column shifter to the new trans.  Fortunately, the Powerglide is the same external size as the TH350, so I didn't have to get a new driveshaft or crossmember.