Re: Mitchell O.D.
The Mitchell overdrive housing for a Victoria is 4.5 inches further forward on the drive train to help clear the dropped floor pan. It should also have the top rear corner machined off at an angle. Gluing a strip of quarter inch thick rubber onto the machined area will cushion it if it bottoms out. Replacing the 8-leaf spring with a 10-leaf spring also provides a little more clearance.
The floor pan is not that hard to remove from the car. You can take it to a sheet metal shop and have the front section cut away and boxed if you carry a lot of weight in the back.
Tom Endy
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