[DeTomaso] Question about Dropped Floor Pans..

[Dave McManus]

I would guess my dropped floor pans are about 2.5" and I have never had a
problem though I do not track the car. I recently checked the seat bolts and
I do not have any marks on the pans. 

Obviously my nuts are lower than the pans.

Indy Dave

-----Original Message-----
From: MikeLDrew at aol.com [mailto:MikeLDrew at aol.com] 
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 3:01 AM
To: LiTtOFreAkYDeViL at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com
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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