Well hindsight can be a really great thing! Especially with this Forum and all?
Okay maybe I can make this real quick for someone if they had all the knowledge ready? 2 pieces of one and a half inch by 2 and 1/2 in rectangle tubing exactly 4 ft long. You should be able to Google nearest Steelyard to you and have them cut it for you. They only sold it in 10 ft pieces so I ended up having them cut it into two four foots and a piece left over. I brought it home and filleted a 3-inch slice for the front as you can see in the picture that I will provide and then the back I took a$15 Harbor Freight four and a half inch cutting wheel and opened up the rear subframe. Of course after the cuts I needed some pliers to bend it down and take the cutting wheel off and replace it with a grinding wheel and smooth things off. At that point I could slide the butt end of the tubing inside the frame and then slide it back for up tight against the front subframe. At this point someone could take it maybe to a muffler shop and have them welding in? I even showed where it went into the frame passed a big hole that I also welded in the plug. Please Laugh at My beginner welds because they've held just fine wheelies and all.
Okay that's $30 for the metal$15 for the grinder $5 for the cutting wheels and $5 for the grinding wheels. Maybe $50 at a muffler shop to weld it together? $105 total?
Or one could add the $89 welder the $35 helmet and some $15 welding gloves and being to the whole kit and caboodle to $250? What happens if you had to do a bad weld? You pull out the grind or any kind of back off and you do it again! LOL oh yeah and don't forget the feeling you did it yourself which of course is priceless! It's underneath the car so only Barrett-Jackson and their mirrors will tell the story when it comes down to it LOL.
I think even with a beginner this could be done in one day with all these dimensions and ideas put in place? My best Summit Services got here the next day. And please remember after you've waited for $200 -$300 frame connectors to get delivered you still got to go and Jack the car up line it up under their drill holes with shavings dropping down on you and make sure the whole goes through level to the other side and doesn't go crooked and all that kind of crazy stuff and then end up maybe welding them in there anyways?
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