[DeTomaso] Question about Dropped Floor Pans..

[littofreakydevil at aol.com]

 Thanks Mike,

No I NEED lowered floor pans.. but not for the reason that others usually get them for..

I DO NOT need it for head clearance...

I NEED it to give me a better selection of seats that I plan to install into the pantera ;) Even aftermarket Sparco seats wont fit due to it being too tall to fit into the pantera hehe.. It would have been nice to put in the mercedes CLS 550 seats that i've sat in, they hug you, comfortable, and sporty but yet all the adjustable mechismism just makes the seat way too tall so that's out of the question. 

But thanks for your response ;) now I get it... I keep reading stuff like.. i think hall pantera's purple passion targa pantera had like a 3" drop all the way around or something.. heh

Larry


 


 

-----Original Message-----
From: MikeLDrew at aol.com
To: LiTtOFreAkYDeViL at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
Sent: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 1:00 am
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Question about Dropped Floor Pans..











In a message dated 8/12/07 21 29 0, littofreakydevil at aol.com writes:






Those dropped floor pans drop the floor in the seat area about 3" am i correct? Considering how low the pantera is, with it dropped 3", isn't the seat area one of the closest things in contact with the ground? Do the guys with a dropped floor pan normally raise up their car or something or.. risk bottoming out and getting it caught on something and ripping the floor apart? Just curious.. can anyone enlighten the young one? :) Thanks!






Larry,



Not all dropped floor pans are created equal.?  The strongest, deepest and most vulnurable I've seen came from Pantera East (I think Kirk Evans made them).?  I think they feature a 2 1/2 inch drop, and they make the floorpan by FAR the lowest thing on the car.?  I have driven Larry Stock's car fitted with these pans, and it felt like I was sitting inside a bucket.?  And they bottomed out pretty fierce when climbing off the shoulder of the highway onto the pavement.



Other vendor pans have a less-extreme drop.?  And some other people have simply sliced the stock pans on the side and rear, bent them down, then welded in triangular steel pieces on each side, and a rectangular one at the back, to lower just the rear part of the pan.



*You* do not need lowered floor pans. :>)



Mike


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