quote:Originally posted by PanteraWanabe:
So no one with the drop pans installed the way you have has noticed any cracking or twisting more than usual then? I kind of see how the 3" pan would act as a sort of 3D strengthening brace but I guess it would be interesting to see what actually happens in the real world.
So it sold for $73K apparently. Good news for us owners, not so good for future owners.
I have not and I have not heard that criticism from others.
I have not had the cracking through the typical spots on the body either. Not yet anyway.
I think a Pantera needs to be dealt with symptomatically? When it breaks, fix it.
As a matter of fact the zf hasn't even shown issues with people running stroker engines yet.
Years ago Dennis Quella built several cars with 427 big blocks in the car and the zf even seems to hold up with them in the car.
That is interesting because it was Ford who found it undependable in the MkII GT40's and went to a different transaxle in that car.
It is lighter than the Pantera and the car was being run under "Bonzi" all out GT racing at the time by "team drivers" who would just beat the living daylights out of those cars.
As far as the prices go, it is just going to change the nature of the new owners.
For one thing they are going to be too expensive to allow or risk these radical modifications to them like we have been seeing.
If you notice, few are modified to the Gp4 body configurations?