jose65cuda
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My grandson 66 Dart has a Slant 6 with a 3 speed floor shift want to convert to Automatic with a Automatic floor shift suggestions please shifter and year and type of tranny?
Convert floor ship to Automatic
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Projectile Dart
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I don't know how attached he is to that specific car but maybe he can consider a trade or to sell that car and purchase another A Body with an automatic? Its 100% possible to do the conversion from manual to automatic and vice versa but there are plenty of people out there who would prefer to have a stick shift car (even the 3 speed) vs an automatic
There was a point in time of me owning my dart when it was still new to me where I nearly traded my 68 Dart 360 auto 4 door for a 68 Valiant slant-6 3-speed 2 door. The guy ended up decided what he needed was money, not my car, and sold the valiant to someone else. Now I'm not sure I would make the same trade but maybe someone else out there is.
Just a thought...
There was a point in time of me owning my dart when it was still new to me where I nearly traded my 68 Dart 360 auto 4 door for a 68 Valiant slant-6 3-speed 2 door. The guy ended up decided what he needed was money, not my car, and sold the valiant to someone else. Now I'm not sure I would make the same trade but maybe someone else out there is.
Just a thought...
67Dart273
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Depends how you want to do it. All factory automatic floor shifts were console, does yours have a console?
The stick cars have an "odd" shaped bump added to the floorpan for the shifter. OEM automatic floor shifts don't have that, and the OEM auto shifter comes up through a "punch" in the floor, but requires specific hardware, AND a specific type transmission, which has cast in mounting holes on the bottom of the trans case for a bracket, supporting the bushing/ shaft of the floor shifter
Otherwise "what I'd do" is just make a sheet metal cover for the shifter, and buy your choice of used/ new/ brand aftermarket auto shifter and mount it neatly on the floor
The stick cars have an "odd" shaped bump added to the floorpan for the shifter. OEM automatic floor shifts don't have that, and the OEM auto shifter comes up through a "punch" in the floor, but requires specific hardware, AND a specific type transmission, which has cast in mounting holes on the bottom of the trans case for a bracket, supporting the bushing/ shaft of the floor shifter
Otherwise "what I'd do" is just make a sheet metal cover for the shifter, and buy your choice of used/ new/ brand aftermarket auto shifter and mount it neatly on the floor
jose65cuda
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Thanks for the response I had a long talk with my Grandson and we have decided to convert to maybe a mild 360 with a 4 speed and dual exhaust. I did convert the 66 Dart to 3 on the floor `with a floor hump from a 66 Cuda fit like a glove. It had a column shift and i could not get to shift right. Again thanks for the much needed advise.
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