Tim Moffet, could you repost the pics on the bottom of your car with your design of 2 pc welded frame connectors? When this original thread was going around I missed it and the pics dont show up now that I located the thread. Thanks.

wow talk about back from the dead...

Since this post, I welded mine in 90° to Zippy, no floor pan welds, and boy what a difference it makes!! I'll post some pics because of they are similar to Tims:

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I thought that would freak some people out when I posted to this old thread. Thanks for the pics whiplash. So you didnt weld yours to the floor pan? Is your a one or two piece steel tubing?

Single piece. Straight, no bends. I think Tims is ine piece, but he just cut a triangle out and bent it closed/welded shut the hole so the back of the bar angled up.

Thats why I was hoping I could get Tim to post his pics since our cars bottoms are very similar.

Thanks to Ma Mopar the floor pan on '65's B Bodies is nice and flat. No reason to cut the floor pan(s) to recess the subframes when the rear subframe is on the same plane as the floor pans.

Floor pan at rear sub-frame, with connector welded in place
Max

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the post that wouldn't die!

Glad to see it's still worth discussing, and good to see more jumping on the bandwagon and getting it done.

here's some old pics of mine...

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Max....do you have any more pics of the installed sub connectors? Maybe one from the side showing the whole length? I plan on putting subs on mine this winter/spring....I'm glad I wont have to cut my new rear pans to install....gotta love the early B's!!!!
Excellent thread btw....

Great timing! I am starting to do this to my Dart as well

Todd/Zippy/Clonestocker

The idea of putting connectors into the rear frames has been something I'll do too, but since I am relocating the springs into the frame rails, would butt welding the 2x3 to the new spring boxes add any strength?

Wize
Your thoughts on biasing the chassis are interesting. The circle track guys have a system for that, and I suspect Pro Stock etc have their chassis' assembled with some sort of preload.

It would be interesting to see if putting a twist into the car to counteract torque would do. But can that be done simply?? And done with a turnbuckle type system for adjustability??

One last thing-
My Dart is on stands for leveling fore and aft. However, the left front will not sit on the jack. Will I need to weight the car to get it to flatten out? Or is that normal. The engines & trans are out of the car


-Ken