Bolt in frame connectors

Nope.

I do this as a hobby, not a business. I do some fabrication work on my own cars, but there’s a big difference between doing some one off fabrication for yourself and doing any kind of fabrication for production.



Sure but the case you’re taking about was a car that had torque boxes. Without those none of that extra work would have been necessary. That’s true of pretty much any part you buy for these cars, sometimes modifications are needed, sometimes they aren’t.

And there’s still a decent difference in the amount of work and skill it takes to make some minor modifications to an existing part compared to fabricating something completely on your own.

If someone wants to buy their connectors, what difference does it make to you? Sure, you can make them yourself if you have the time, skills and equipment. And if you do that you may save some cash, although probably at the expense of your time. Which is fine if you have the time and the desire to do it. But if you don’t, so what? Heck, even if you do have the time, skills and equipment it doesn’t necessarily mean that fabricating subframe connectors is what you want to do with that time.
I think what I was getting at was it wasn't only cheaper it was easier and faster to build them yourself but yes 10 times cheaper and probably half the time. Just like the last person who install them had to stretch them and drill them and cut them and paint them and weld them I mean how about just getting a 4-foot piece that needs two cuts and three small cuts on your rear frame.
On a bet I bet if someone dropped off an a body at my house, actually in the driveway of an apartment complex I bet in 3 hours I could buy the steel buy all the equipment have the measured cut and weld it in within 3 hours and 4 less than it cost to buy a pair of those frame connectors.
Steel $30 welder $89 helmet $35 grinder $15 cutting wheels and grinding wheels $10 an extension cord $15 is a rattle can paint $5. I can be back from the Steelyard and Harbor Freight within an hour. I can have everything measured cut and prepped within another hour weld it in in another half-hour spray-painted in about 10 minutes and I think that would leave me about 20 minutes to blow wind on my fingernails and polish them on my chest.