wheelbase - How Short?

crownvicjim · 02-12-2005, 04:42 PM

i have a 89 crown vic 4dr i am planning on shortening to a 2 door with a shorthe wheelbase. how short is unsafe? wheelbase now is 114.8".what problems might i not be thinking about? anyone done something like this before? on the frame i know i will have to shorten the drive shaft, new brake lines, and gas lines. someone TELL ME WHAT TO EXPECT!!!

tigermiata · 03-29-2005, 01:56 PM

It is tempting to tell you to take one hundred fourteen and eight-tenths inches out of the wheelbase.

That said, I would think you could take at least two feet out and still be "safe". Isn't that car body-on-frame? I'd get under the car and take measurements, look for a straight stretch of frame rail back there, it might tell you how much you dare chop out before the complexity increases by an order of magnitude.

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