[DeTomaso] To Drop or Not to Drop
Mike & Elizabeth
mbefthomas2 at gmail.com
Thu Apr 29 11:05:33 EDT 2021
OK, thanks all very much for the input. Still pondering but leaning towards not dropping.
Julian or anyone with a GT5 or 5-S, can you send me shots of the floor pans or underside of the car so I can get a reference as to what the method is? As it happens, I’ll likely need to replace the forward floor pan due to rust.
Mike Thomas
From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 6:10 AM
To: 'Julian Kift' <julian_kift at hotmail.com>; detomaso at server.detomasolist.com; mbefthomas2 at gmail.com; jderyke at aol.com
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] To Drop or Not to Drop
Dear Julian,
You wrote:
"Not all lowered floor pans are the same, the method of lowering combined with the chosen seat bears a large influence on the outcome."
"The later GT5 style of lowered floor (despite Mr. Drew's opinion and my own opposingly biased one) is the best execution, it offers all options of seats to be installed with spacers if required (fore or aft for rake adjustment or all 4 for height) and provides for 2" of additional head room. This allows for any combination of seat to be installed and adjusted to the right (or wrong) height as I can attest to having driven my GT5 the 12 hours straight home from Phoenix after purchase, it took a week to work that crick out of my neck!"
"If I had a car in bare metal and wanted to lower floors, I would personally go GT5 full floor route, -----"
$$$$$ You confirmed my opinion of that long ago test fit in a factory GT5 in Vegas. It *did* seem so much more spacious. If I ever drop the floor pans, I will use the GT5 method. Thanks for the details.
Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
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OK, thanks all very much for the input. Still pondering but leaning
towards not dropping.
Julian or anyone with a GT5 or 5-S, can you send me shots of the floor
pans or underside of the car so I can get a reference as to what the
method is? As it happens, I'll likely need to replace the forward
floor pan due to rust.
Mike Thomas
From: Charles Engles <cengles at cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2021 6:10 AM
To: 'Julian Kift' <julian_kift at hotmail.com>;
detomaso at server.detomasolist.com; mbefthomas2 at gmail.com;
jderyke at aol.com
Subject: RE: [DeTomaso] To Drop or Not to Drop
Dear Julian,
You wrote:
"Not all lowered floor pans are the same, the method of lowering
combined with the chosen seat bears a large influence on the outcome."
"The later GT5 style of lowered floor (despite Mr. Drew's opinion and
my own opposingly biased one) is the best execution, it offers all
options of seats to be installed with spacers if required (fore or aft
for rake adjustment or all 4 for height) and provides for 2" of
additional head room. This allows for any combination of seat to be
installed and adjusted to the right (or wrong) height as I can attest
to having driven my GT5 the 12 hours straight home from Phoenix after
purchase, it took a week to work that crick out of my neck!"
"If I had a car in bare metal and wanted to lower floors, I would
personally go GT5 full floor route, -----"
$$$$$ You confirmed my opinion of that long ago test fit in a
factory GT5 in Vegas. It *did* seem so much more spacious. If I ever
drop the floor pans, I will use the GT5 method. Thanks for the
details.
Warmest regards, Chuck Engles
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