Hello I think this might be my first post on here. Also dont flame me to bad. Lol I am building a 96 dakota short bed 2 wheel drive to drag race. My problem is with the full length hooker headers I am useing. There is no room left a exhaust system. So I have to cut up my stock transmission cross member or buy a custom one. Which I have found not it only fits 97 and up. So I am trying to find out what the width of the inner frame is on a 97 dakota. To see how much wider the 97 is compared to my 96. If it's close enough I think I might beable to mod it to fit my 96 frame.