Frame connectors
I've seen it too many times.... People pay hundreds of dollars for what turns out just to be a straight bar of metal...
I went to the steelyard and bought a 10-foot stick of I think what was 1 and 1/2 by 2 and 1/2... I had them cut it in two to four foot pieces with a 2ft piece left over that I used on other projects later...
I bought a $89 Harbor Freight flux wire welder. I bought a $14 four and a half inch grinder with a couple cutting wheels a grinding wheel and a flap disc wheel Alfred probably $10 or less... I also bought a decent $29 helmet and some $5 welding gloves.....
(Those two things with their accessories have saved me thousands and made me thousands LOL..)
You can see here where I took the $14 cutting wheel and made a slice at the top and two slices down the side of the front of the rear frame box... And shoved the bar inside there... Oops.. actually that's not my car that's a picture of the car that I got the idea from...
here you can see where I took my sawzall with a metal blade and cut a notch out of the front of it so I'm not only budding it into the front frame but welding it to the bottom of it as well getting six sides instead of just four..
Once that's welded up just swelled up around the back...
This time this is an actual picture of my car LOL and the back part. Not only did I weld up all around but I welded in that little hole on the bottom as well...
This car has been on the track and pulled its tires off the ground and they're still no cracks or problems with any of the welds with the Harbor Freight $89 welder...
If you don't know how to weld then cut that 2 foot piece leftover in half and put it on top of itself length ways and get some practice.... Watch some YouTube videos... I remember it's under the car nobody's ever going to see your funky welds especially after you sand them well and rattle can them black... Ask me how I know....
I've seen it too many times.... People pay hundreds of dollars for what turns out just to be a straight bar of metal...
I went to the steelyard and bought a 10-foot stick of I think what was 1 and 1/2 by 2 and 1/2... I had them cut it in two to four foot pieces with a 2ft piece left over that I used on other projects later...
I bought a $89 Harbor Freight flux wire welder. I bought a $14 four and a half inch grinder with a couple cutting wheels a grinding wheel and a flap disc wheel Alfred probably $10 or less... I also bought a decent $29 helmet and some $5 welding gloves.....
(Those two things with their accessories have saved me thousands and made me thousands LOL..)
You can see here where I took the $14 cutting wheel and made a slice at the top and two slices down the side of the front of the rear frame box... And shoved the bar inside there... Oops.. actually that's not my car that's a picture of the car that I got the idea from...
Once that's welded up just swelled up around the back...
This time this is an actual picture of my car LOL and the back part. Not only did I weld up all around but I welded in that little hole on the bottom as well...
This car has been on the track and pulled its tires off the ground and they're still no cracks or problems with any of the welds with the Harbor Freight $89 welder...
If you don't know how to weld then cut that 2 foot piece leftover in half and put it on top of itself length ways and get some practice.... Watch some YouTube videos... I remember it's under the car nobody's ever going to see your funky welds especially after you sand them well and rattle can them black... Ask me how I know....
