1964 Falcon Futura two door sedan.

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Trans is a T400 with shift kit...T350 would have been ok but got a deal on the dynoed 400. T350 case is noticeably smaller tho.
Custom length propshaft with safety loop drives a Holden fine spline 10 bolt. Seventies/eighties Holden one ton utes were equipped with those h.d. axles for hauling heavier loads. They are rare these days.

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Chassis modifications started with cutting out the round tube crossmember and replaced it with 2 x 1" rectangular tube. Bolting thru the original Ford engine mounts and towers tied the chassis rails together to retain strength. The new crossmember incorporates steering rack mounts and a vertical gusset up to the new strut tower. Reworked oil pan to clear the steering rack.
WTF are those strut towers u ask? I'm old enough to remember those squeaky horrible Falcon front suspensions, and wasn't going to endure that in my own car, so in went GM Holden Commodore V8 struts, PBR 'Corvette' calipers and rotors, lower control arms, master cylinder and booster, steering column brace (that's what the brake/clutch pedal bracket is really called) along with collapsible steering column and power rack........ALL UNMODIFIED. The caster rods are Commodore, straightened slightly at the front and mounted thru the original Ford chassis brackets using Ford rubber donuts.
Over here we have strict engineering certification to be met before registration, and using those components unmodified is the best way to gain certification as they are ADR'd for series production(Australian Design Rules). This project has sailed thru....just got to do a laptop braking efficiency test asap.
You guys know a Commodore as Chevy SS or G8.
Engine bay braces and Export brace are 0.75x 0.65" 4130 tube with 7/16" rod ends. Note that it's a perfect triangle....I'm yet to see another. Firewall bracket spreads the load across most of the width of the engine bay. There are 1" square tube diagonal braces in the shotgun area from strut top to firewall.
The original Ford torque boxes were trashed as usual, so I digitized the floor side-to-side and lasercut a full width top hat section incorporating a propshaft safety loop. Gearbox crossmember same story.
Exhaust is currently 2.25 two into one but it's too quiet and will be reworked eventually.

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Rear suspension is my own 4-link. Lower arms were fabbed from 1.125" X .156 dom tubing and McMaster Carr 4130 hi angularity rod ends and their left/right threaded inserts. These are installed in the Ford leaf spring pickup points. The uppers are Jaguar IRS forged steel lateral (camber) links. A packaging bonus was that the curve in those links clears the standard rear axle crossmember at bump, thus achieving the best side view location for the upper pickup point without removing that crossmember. 4130 rod ends ride smooth and quiet so far.
AirRide 4" airbags on my own lasercut* axle brackets, with the top of the bag mounted against the original floor pan. A new fabbed crossmember above the floor takes the load of the airbag as well as top mount for the Monroe gas OEM shocks. Airbags allow me to raise the hitch to load my sprinter without highcentering on the trailer frame.
Panhard bar is a shortened Range Rover steering tie rod which already has a left/right threaded adjuster and swedged tie rod ends.

*I am ex-GM body group cad designer so lasercut designs are what I do to keep my sanity.

Battery is in the rh trunk dropoff, master fuses on the trunk floor, battery positive cable runs to drivers seat pan with Cutoff switch accessible at front of driver seat cushion. There are more fuse boxes under the driver seat. I decided to convert the Falcon to right hand drive because I have the time and also makes the car easier to sell eventually.

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