Crown Vic front end
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07/15/18 12:40 PM
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Anybody ever use a Crown Vic front end, they look like a nice unit that can be installed fairly fast.
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Re: Crown Vic front end
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Other than width it's a neat package.
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Re: Crown Vic front end
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07/16/18 09:15 PM
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Might fit, what's the track?
Near as I can find, not being a truck guy, the 63's track is 64.7"
the Crown Vic is 62.8"
So it ought to work but the kicker is it appears that the frame width is the same at 34" for both.
Some time with a tape measure and online looking at CV swaps might pay dividends.
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Re: Crown Vic front end
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07/16/18 10:50 PM
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Panther rim offset answers https://www.crownvic.net/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=1061930Pretty sure it's not an issue if it doesn't hit. the stock rims have the offset they have to fit the chassis, the truck will have a different setup and will need rims to fit that.
Last edited by Supercuda; 07/16/18 10:52 PM.
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Re: Crown Vic front end
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You will have to remove the sweptline's under the motor crossmember, the CV's crossmember will occupy the same area. Then you will have to add a flat surface to the bottom of the Sweptline's frame from the rad support to the end of the rear spring hanger to get rid of the Mopar hump in the font frame rails so the CV suspension has something to "bolt" to. That flat surface will have to be long enough to pick up the back end of the lower control arm mounting as well, hopefully they are close enough inline with the other mounting holes.
The CV has something like 4" of backspacing on the wheels, you did get the wheels as well, right?
Take pictures of your progress. It would be nice to have a documented step by step procedure of another option for a front clip, as limited as it might be. Gene I was thinking of using this in my 37 Plymouth
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Re: Crown Vic front end
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07/19/18 10:44 AM
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I was thinking on putting one under a 63 sweptline?? It's been done by quite a few people. There is still a lot of frame hacking required to do it.
1970 Dodge d100/eventually going on a 77 D100 frame
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