Can anyone tell me were i can get a set of alloy clamps that hold an alloy beam to the frame head???? have seen them on a few race cars and searched
the net for them but no result.
Cheers ben
Tried Rodney Penrose??
as he is only 5 min down the road he is always my first port of call. He dosnt have them!
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You can cut out stock ones to use, my old chop top had it that way, or get a locl machine shop to fab a set.
If you have a JT beam they sell them but you have to ring them ( no web site ) Phone number in Hotvw's mag.
Or make them from billet , is what I did . Had a local machine shop make them .
As a good quick fix , use steel standard one's cut off , then use conrod bearings underneath the two brackets .
Rods car is done this way , never a issue .
As Matt said !! I second that !!
Have a set i cut off a beam but was looking for some like yours Pete( for looks more than anything) Didnt think about using the bearing though! Was
woried about them cutting into the alloy. Will go see a machinest tomorrow about getting a billet set made up. Thanks guys
Ps Did you weld the bearings or just clamp them there???
Jamar do sell them in billet now. However when I used my Jamar Aloy beam I made them out of two original steel pressings and 3" tube cut in half to
form 1/2 shells and fabricated the brackets over on old original beam to get it to the exact fit. This also stops the beam from being crushed too far
into the head frame and the bolts bottom out on an inside stop block to prevent any over crushing of the beam. I have ordered a pair of aloy ones
from Jamar to pick up on my next trip in April but I have concerns about the aloy clamps maintaining crush on the beam over along time? Its not the
travelling down the strip that worries me but the hours that the car spends on trailer travelling to and from events that might cause them to losen up
in time. I would asume that the steel fabricated brackets would not be much different in weight to the aloys however the aloy is much nicer on the
eyes. If you use the aloys I would think that they would need to be Tig welded in position to stop the beam slipping along them but I am yet to find
out what others have done there.
Cheers
Andrew
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Have drawn a set up and will have them made up next week. Will let you know how i go.
Took the drawing to a shop today quoted me $700 to make them up. Does this seem excesive to you guys????
You can buy them from JT beams for $50 bucks . Anyway make them yourself , not hard .
anyone got the number. I dont have any hotvws to get it out and have serched the net but cant fined it
The number quoted in HotVW is 1 888 588 3398, sorry not sure of location for international dialing codes
I got mine here - Dans
weres Dans
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