66 Dart Owners thread

ch1ll said
Mine is a 66 post. No picture's yet, just found this thread. It was drag raced hard 1/4 of its life and spent another 1/2 its life mostly in a garage. So the welds on the 6 point roll bar and the home made sub frame connectors were not the best. On its last pass it blew off one of the sub frame connectors and tweaked the unibody. Raced with a high horse power W2 small block. The cut up fender skirts for the fender well headers didn't help, no reinforce bracing.

So the floor pans are rusted out, my guess is the windshield leaks cause the rest of the car is solid besides the tweaked unibody.

so any of you guys replace floor pans with the ABS reproductions? will they accommodate a v8 transmission?

The wiper pivot area and fresh air box are other places to get a water leak. I haven't seen any floor pan interference with any 904 or 727 automatics. Some of the aftermarket transmissions are a different story. The 727 can get tight up by the floor-to-firewall pinchweld, so, you may have to massage that area (read: take a hammer to it!) and it's almost impossible to use a tranny blanket without mods of some sort.