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 Unity-28
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| posted on June 4th, 2004 at 03:27 PM |
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shock tower extensions
Anyone extended their ball joint shock towers?
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| posted on June 4th, 2004 at 05:20 PM |
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Nope, but I've seen it been done. Not too hard either, basically make four into two. I think the best way would be to cut diagonally between two of
your spot welds, undo your spot welds, take off that side (the shock towers are two sides spot welded together, then seam welded to the beam) and then
run your diagonal cut the opposite way on the other side. Do this a couple of inches higher than the cuts on your donor beam, stick it all back
together, weld it and perhaps seam weld it if you want some extra strength...
Hope that very vague suggestion gives you some ideas dude.
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 06:43 PM |
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ok..... so ive been thinking bout this..... how does this sound?
take a template of the towers ....... but extend where the beam goes in .....up 2 or whatever inches.... make 4 of these out of 5mm plate, seperate
them by the thickness of the actual shoctower..... so theres 2 big plates and a few sort of gussets going up and down and reenforcing around the beams
and the shock towers..... will do a sketch
[Edited on 7-6-2004 by Adam_C]
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 07:27 PM |
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NO NO NO
for ball joint tower extension you get a 2 inch hole saw and drill cut out the tower where the shock bolts onto.
Get a bit of 2 inch dia steel tubing by 2 inches long and weld it to the top of the tower.... fill the end in with a large dia washer.... Works
really easy on the ball joint front end.
Just make sure the shock fits inside the bit of 2 inch pipe.
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 07:29 PM |
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Dont cut the actual towers as this weakens them, its much easier as i described above.
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 07:30 PM |
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OOOOPSPPSSSS
Thats a trade secret please pay me $40.00 per front end....
OOOPPPPSSSS
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| posted on June 7th, 2004 at 10:12 PM |
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Thanks for that guys. But im thinking of extending them for bigger airbags, so i need the actual flat bit of the tower. Has anyone done this?
Ta N!
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| posted on June 8th, 2004 at 05:33 PM |
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hmmm my idea may work.... just change the whole shock tower for something similar to the k and l one.... the post above was in regards to that too
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| posted on June 9th, 2004 at 03:05 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vw54
NO NO NO
for ball joint tower extension you get a 2 inch hole saw and drill cut out the tower where the shock bolts onto.
Get a bit of 2 inch dia steel tubing by 2 inches long and weld it to the top of the tower.... fill the end in with a large dia washer.... Works
really easy on the ball joint front end.
Just make sure the shock fits inside the bit of 2 inch pipe.
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Thats the longest post yuv ever done Dave and very informative too thanks. |
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