sub frame connectors.

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  1. Bob Wiken

    Bob Wiken Chronologically Gifted

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    After breakfast (right now) I'm going down to weld mine in. I'll have some pics later. Wish me luck.
     
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    Don't need luck. Just take your time and weld em in good!

    You will be surprised at how stiff the ride is afterwards. You will feel every little bump in the road and you will find all kinds of new rattles in your car.
     
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    I'd like get those...what are you using??
    After doing my full front end rebuild about a week later I developed a serious clunk noise when I'd turn the wheel.
    I went to an alignment shop and to another shop.. nobody could isolate it. I thought it was the new steering box.. Months went by, I was very despondent, the serenity had left my driving experience.
    So, on my on, as usual, I found it after three separate attempt to locate. It was the transmission crosmember flexing..when I turned the wheel!!
    I tightened the bolts on it, and it stopped. A miracle. It was the last thing there was to try tightening.. I thought my subframe where the steering box attaches was flexing / oil canning maybe.. Now that I've spent some real quality time under the car looking at the structure, I want sub frame connectors too. Maybe shock tower braces as well.... Sub frame connectors are a good idea, they stiffen length wise but not athwartship.. (side to side) it seems the tranny crossmember is left that task. I think another brace is in order.
     
  5. Bob Wiken

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    I got these from Chassis engeneering in Fla. $99.50 plus $7 shipping
    and they fit absolutely perfectly. They could not be better
     

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    wow those look serious! I'll check the company out thanks.
    Like skid plates for doing grinders up a curb..:rofl2:
    I'd like to know what difference in driving you can detect...
     
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    do you have the contact info handy? Id like to order a set.
     
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