MK 2 escort gearbox/console

G'day guys, does anyone have any photos of the console with gearstick and handbreak using the T9 gearbox? Wouldn't mind seeing the final product, as i'm currently doing this conversion myself. 
 
Also, has anyone not lowered the T9 and just fab'ed up the new shifter hole and tunnel so to keep the gearbox/tailshaft at the right angles? and if so, how did the whole consol sit and look after that?
 
Hopefully you can understand my jibber jabber haha
 
Thanks
Daniel

I will have my midnight blue RS with T9 at SFS on the FFCC stand.  The console needs to me moved back a little, and the standard Sierra shifter bent forward too... as well as the gearstick hole "relocated" and the mounts "relocated"..... You can eitehr move the standard mounts as I did to make it look and feel factory, or make up a whole new crosmember an bolt directly to the floor (bodgey altert!).  You will also need a Cortina (TC-TF 2Lt) speedo cable to get it to work....
 
The English magazines say to use RS spacers, but the English RS and non RS models are slightly different to the Aussie Mk2 models.  The English RS uses a Cortina box so the gear stick comes out of the back of the box and the shifter hole is already located further back.  English non RS models used the old T2/3 boxes and the monts were in a different position (same as Mk1 ???).  However all Aussie Mk2 Escorts have a different extension housing on the back of the gearbox which relocated the shifter approx 10cm forward of the extension housing (so do not let anyone tell you a 2Lt Cortina box will fit an Escort - as it will NOT).  This means that the Aussie shifter is in a different position to the T9 5sp which is the same as a 2Lt Cortina - so the shifter position and the tunnel strengthenein web and the mounting positions DO NEED to be changed - which also means the console does not fit too well, but with a little massaging it will work. 

Yeah, i live down in the Latrobe Valley, so all our highways are 110, and all the other roads i drive re 100km, which is why i wanted to go 5 speed. Lucky i have the auto tunnel, so everything bolts up. i was just wondering what the console looked like after everything had been moved back. I do have a 3.54 diff i will be chucking in the back of it too,.