i am ready to put in the motor and drive train in the cruiser. a 350, 7004r, stock t-case. my question is what is the best cross member to use? pics of yours would be nice. thanks.

HOME MADE IS THE BEST!!

I'll admit i had my tranny (H55f) installed by a proffesional (i had no fucking idea what i was doing then). anyways

just take a peice of rectangular tubing weld flanges on the ends, drill two holes or one hole (depends on which mount you have).
then bolt it to the tranny and mark where the edges of the flange line up, weld another plate on there. Drill and tap and you are good to go.

(this was my very best explanation but if you need another just ask)

i have 2 xmembers suporting mine..i originaly had just the rear AA mount on the bac of the Tcaes but all the weight in the middle stripped the bolts out of the tranny where the adapter bolts to it...we then built a xmember that uses a stock style chevy tranny mount and used that to bolt the tranny to our xmember..i dont have a digi cam or scanner, but i can send you pics if you want?..it is a sick xmember and STRONG..it looks like the AA mount that is available for auto swaps but is much beffier and was free to make...pm me your address if you want those pics installed and unistalled or i could send them to someone to post

Box tubing .180 is my prefrence and get creative

steel!!!!!!!!!

steel?? i never thought of that. i was thinking of pvc left over from my sprinkler system.