Sub-frame connectors... Please build them correctly!
I'd love to see someone actually test it. I'm not saying the results wouldn't be helpful, I'm just cautioning that with only a single test, even a good one, that it would still be premature to call one method the "best" way to do it. But I'd love to see someone do some testing and provide results that aren't completely anecdotal.
You can weld the connectors to the floor pans. It's not a trivial exercise from a welding skills point of view though, and unless you have the car on a rotisserie after some kind of blasting or metal stripping it's a royal PITA. But it absolutely can be done, and given how important the floor pan is for the structural integrity of these cars it definitely makes sense from a chassis stiffness and torsional rigidity standpoint. Lots of folks have done it successfully, and there's not doubt that it improves the stiffness of the chassis.
Whether of not it's the "best" method I certainly can't say. If you want your connectors to look somewhat factory, and are tearing the car completely down to the chassis and putting it on a rotisserie I don't think they're a bad way to go at all.
I'd love to see someone actually test it. I'm not saying the results wouldn't be helpful, I'm just cautioning that with only a single test, even a good one, that it would still be premature to call one method the "best" way to do it. But I'd love to see someone do some testing and provide results that aren't completely anecdotal.
Why this was resurrected, just to recycle the questions and answers is beyond... As far as the whole 'do I weld it to the floor pans?' how do you even entertain the idea? ...
Have you ever glued paper towel wings to a cardboard tube and expected it to fly?
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You can weld the connectors to the floor pans. It's not a trivial exercise from a welding skills point of view though, and unless you have the car on a rotisserie after some kind of blasting or metal stripping it's a royal PITA. But it absolutely can be done, and given how important the floor pan is for the structural integrity of these cars it definitely makes sense from a chassis stiffness and torsional rigidity standpoint. Lots of folks have done it successfully, and there's not doubt that it improves the stiffness of the chassis.
Whether of not it's the "best" method I certainly can't say. If you want your connectors to look somewhat factory, and are tearing the car completely down to the chassis and putting it on a rotisserie I don't think they're a bad way to go at all.
