Author Topic: Front Floor Fit  (Read 887 times)

Offline JonS

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 318
Front Floor Fit
« on: October 23, 2010 - 09:45:47 AM »
Finished tearing the floor out of the 71 challenger.  I dropped the new AMD floor pan in and was actually pretty surprised at how well it fit around the perimeter.  The sides and front are pretty good matches. 

The bad news was that the transmission tunnel sits a good inch (maybe even a bit more) above the crossmember.  It's also about this high at the firewall, but only at the transmission tunnel.  The front footwells match the firewall well.  I'm going to try and start pulling it down in the middle and working it out to the sides.

Has anyone else run into this with AMD metal?  I'm going to try and snap a few pictures this morning to add as a visual.




Offline JonS

  • Jr. Member
  • **
  • Posts: 318
Re: Front Floor Fit
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2010 - 05:36:12 PM »
Ended up getting it where I needed.  I literally needed 2 buddies to stand on it in the right places to get the proper "persuasion".  Screwed it all together and I'll start plug welding hopefully tomorrow.


Offline 67vertman

  • Sr. Resident
  • ******
  • Posts: 5125
  • Member since 9-23-2005
Re: Front Floor Fit
« Reply #2 on: October 23, 2010 - 11:26:21 PM »
It usually take some persuasion, to get after market parts to fit.  :grinyes:


Good luck with the rest of the install.  :2thumbs:



Ron - Born and raised in Southern California

I got the 1970 Cuda, but still need the hot blonde to ride shotgun!

First car -1969 Road Runner 383 4sp

Current ride - 1970 Barracuda 440-6 4 sp Dana 60  (4:10)

Offline E-Body Products

  • E-Body Products
  • Sr. Member
  • ****
  • Posts: 1016
  • American Jobs Are Our Children's Future!
    • E-BODY PRODUCTS
Re: Front Floor Fit
« Reply #3 on: October 28, 2010 - 12:02:12 PM »
Sounds like everything worked out.  I installed an aftermarket pan in my cuda and it fit good after some work.  I will never put another patch in a floor again.