AODE Cable removal - NotA4.6?

when I went from automatic to manual on my Cobra clone, I noticed the wrecked Cobra had a metal pedestal that the manual shifter sat on. Essentially, manual 'Stangs have two holes through the floor to get to the tranny, AODE 'Stangs have just one. Mustangs with an AODE do not have this pedestal. The best photo I have is this one, of the wrecked Cobra:



If you see up at the top of the photo, there's a large hole where the shifter used to be. If you can imagine the ragged hole covered smooth across, that's about what the AODE's have. The manual tranny cars have a piece of metal welded over that spot that raises the shifter up a couple of inches. To make sure my Cobra clone was just right, me and a buddy cut the metal pedestal out of the wrecked Cobra and welded it into the clone. To get the AODE shifter handle to fit, you'll likely have to cut that metal out. You may have to add some metal around the bottom hole to be about to mount the AODE shifter in properly; I had to cut out some metal so the T5 shifter housing didn't rub on anything.

And no, I don't have the parts in the photo anymore.