I have been working on this for over three weeks, maybe more. It all started when I mounted my engine & transmission with the mount for the transmission. The car comes with a Ford universal mount. I have a small block Chevrolet with a 700 R4 transmission. FFR said they have an adapter to mate that mount with my transmission. That doesn't work without a lot of modification as the bolt heads for the bolts for the transmission interfere with the Ford mount. After modifying the Ford mount I tried to get the exhaust on. It would not mate up. FFR tech said to get a 2 degree down incidence with the transmission. I couldn't do that in any combination of mounts (GM included) so I took a suggestion from someone on Facebook to raise the engine 1/4" by reversing the mounting plates that attach to the frame. I got about 5 degree incidence and the exhaust bolted up but just barely. The problem was that the tail shaft of the transmission was almost hitting the floor.

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Today I went about attaching the drive shaft. Here is a picture of that.

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As you can see there is not enough room for the universal joint.

I have been thinking all along that Factory Five Racing would not sell me something that would not fit. I was going to add something here but it was not appropriate.

What I am going to do now is to Put the engine mounting plates back to the original position. Another reason for doing this is that my Blue Print Engine needs a low profile air cleaner to fit under the stock hood. I am putting the GM transmission mount back on, which gave me more tail shaft clearance. Take the shorty pipes off from the headers and cut a pie into them to mate up to the exhaust.