73' B3 340 Duster pro touring build

76orangewagon said

and floor pan.......once I removed the entire old floor pan (lost count on how many spot welds there were) I sand blasted inside the frame rails and coated with Southern Polyurethane's epoxy primer. Ive read great things about there products and dont want to do this twice so I went with the best I didnt mention this before but this isnt a budget build, I am on limited funds but I save on labor I will spend on Quality parts. the only issue I had with the floor pan was the location for the outside seat belt bolt, in the one picture you will notice the new location, which is approx 2.5 inches back from the AMD stamped one. FYI incase you find yourself doing a floor pan replacement.

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Wow deja vu. Been there with my 67 cuda build a couple years ago. Couldent afford a new floor pan, and my torsion bar crossmember had been hacked thru by a.careless previous owner. I used a clean crossmember, and clean used floorpan from a 74 dart 4 door. All the spotweld cutting you had to do X2. Awesome job so far on the duster.

Do you have pix of the XV radiator support. I bought a tubular dillinger bar for the lower support on mine to tie the framerails together. I used 2x3" by 1/8" thick square stock for my subframe connectors, layed it sideways. Did mine similar to bigblockdart.com. Cost me about $25 in materials.strong as hell. Naybe can save you some money over the cartool pieces.

Matt