thanks for keeping us up to date on this all very good info. I do find it very interesting that the 3.5 sits further forward than the 3.0 in the sport line, i've only been apart of swapping the 3.5 into a gen 1 and this wasn't the case he had to use some hammer action on the fire wall but like i said thats on a gen 1.

Do you think hood louvers would help your cooling issues, if i understand correctly a proper placement can help pull air thru the rad at hiway speed i would think this would also work well with your electric fan setup. Then again maybe just better off cutting and moving back the whole drive train a couple inches rather than trying to work around the issue.