DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
06-14-2012, 09:28 PM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
Idiots. Looks like they used useless flimsy *** thin wall pipe.
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06-14-2012, 09:52 PM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
Yeah, not to mention box steel is better for subframes than tubed. And the commentary was horrible as well.
06-14-2012, 10:04 PM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
Contact points for easier welding can be an argument for square vs round, but that still sounds like something done for convenience not strength.
06-15-2012, 12:49 AM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
Yeahhh.. major hackjob. Cool idea; poorly executed.
06-15-2012, 01:31 AM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
if you can bend the pipe in a vice using your own muscle.. thats some weak metal
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
That looks like 1" emt to me. Hardly suited for the job
06-16-2012, 02:14 AM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
Is it just me or is it going the wrong way to be a subframe connector? More like a wonder bar.
06-16-2012, 09:37 AM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
Yep. And I'm hoping that guy just has a twisted sense of humor & made the video as a joke, because it certainly wouldn't do anything to improve any car. Using nuts as stand-offs to hold it away from the body & clear things (in his case, the exhaust)?
06-16-2012, 01:38 PM
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
Not one of you caught the joke in this. They even wrote in the replies that it was a joke.
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Re: DIY $20 Subframe Connectors
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