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i have my dart done the same way. looks just about to the shock towers also....
i love the look of fenderwell headers. and its worth it to me to cut the car up.
all the factory 440 mr norm darts came like that too and they even advertised how you have clearence issued. for the street im going to start running skinnyer tire and 14" rim and for the track a front drag tire on a 15" then problem solved. for structure you are taking out really the only front support so you need to add somthing for that to make up the difference.
What i did was take some cheap scrap electrical conduate and cut it and then put it in a press to squish the ends and then connected it from the firewall to the fender where the fender and inner fender come together in the center about, solved it fine and is very stiff.

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