I have had an issue with the trans/engine lining up straight since purchasing my car. There is actually a custom made (hacked) shifter boot around the shifter because the top of the shifter mechanism would not clear the stock plastic trim around the shifter boot because it's pushed way over to the passenger side of the car. Just recently got done having shredded torque boxes shored up, so I know the car has been run pretty hard in the past.
To make a long story short, I crawled under the car for an hour to try and figure out what the problem is, and saw something that didn't look right. The hump that the drivers side motor mount attaches to and the steering sector shaft runs through has a noticable weld running across the bottom (looking at it from the back where the steering shaft is visible); as if it was cut out and replaced at some point. It was a pretty clean weld, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't factory and the other side wasn't like this. Does this sound like something that would have been shoddily repaired had a motor mount pulled out of it's mounting pad? Can anyone with a car on jackstands or know their way around the subframes of these cars confirm that there should NOT be a weld around the base of this hump? If this is indeed the problem, what recourse to I have besides finding another shell and swapping everything over? I'm really sick over this after just doing a lot of working repairing the torque boxes and doing a five lug conversion to this car.
To make a long story short, I crawled under the car for an hour to try and figure out what the problem is, and saw something that didn't look right. The hump that the drivers side motor mount attaches to and the steering sector shaft runs through has a noticable weld running across the bottom (looking at it from the back where the steering shaft is visible); as if it was cut out and replaced at some point. It was a pretty clean weld, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't factory and the other side wasn't like this. Does this sound like something that would have been shoddily repaired had a motor mount pulled out of it's mounting pad? Can anyone with a car on jackstands or know their way around the subframes of these cars confirm that there should NOT be a weld around the base of this hump? If this is indeed the problem, what recourse to I have besides finding another shell and swapping everything over? I'm really sick over this after just doing a lot of working repairing the torque boxes and doing a five lug conversion to this car.