poor man's mini-tubs
 

Every so often we see the subject of mini-tubs come up. Then we find out that replacing inner wheel housing on a coupe just aint that easy, plus relocating the trunk hinges etc, etc.

Saw this posted by MustangDepot outa Las Vegas,,,
http://www.mustangdepot.com/graphics/pm-mini-tub.pdf. Sounds pretty straight forward and eliminates a common inner wheel house issue with wider tires. It doesn't mention anything about necessary mods to the inner floor pan to accomodate the wider housing. Curious, any-one done this?

It's lots of fun lol. Just remember a mini tub on this cars is all but usless unless you move the eafs in or your new suspension is a bit narrower. we've got 315's on some cars, and we can get a bit more room with a hammer. But after that, it hits leaf.

QUOTE=cprstreetmachines;6365081]It's lots of fun lol. Just remember a mini tub on these cars is all but usless unless you move the leafs in or your new suspension is a bit narrower. we've got 315's on some cars, and we can get a bit more room with a hammer. But after that, it hits leaf.[/QUOTE]

+1, I can attest to this. I'm running a G-link and was able to stuff 315's in (thanks to CPRs wise words that 315s will fit with proper backspacing)...

I did have to tenderly massage the inner wheelhouses with a BFH, but they fit beautifully now. Like CPR said I'd hit the lower control arm before tubbing would be necessary.

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CPR. Did you just relocate the leaf perch on the axle or did you relocate all 3 points? Seems if you just do the one on the axle it would put your leafs in a weird angle. I plan to do a mini tub on my 65 it is just in the planning stage now.

Didn't move any of them for a 315......but if you minitub, you need to move all three. You could maybe move just the perch and rear a bit, but you wouldn't gain much. you can do that because OEM puts the leaks cocked in a bit in the front from the get go. So if you just made them parallel, you would gain a little.