Something I learned on the weekend.
If you are planning to fab your own frame connectors, make sure you measure how wide your sub-frames are first. I used the measurements from the Big-Block-Dart tech article and they are wrong. To make a long story short, I was in a hurry and didn't measure mine. BAD MOVE!
The tech article says to use a 2" by 3" by 53" piece of rectangular mild steel. Well my frame rails are 2 1/2 inches wide. So no matter how you look at it the 2x3 is not going to fit right. I was able to cut and weld things so they fit right and will be just as strong but it was a pain in the *** to do and it only cost me some time but that was time I should have spent elsewhere on the car.
Just thought I would warn everybody to not take things in tech articles as being gospel.
Jack
If you are planning to fab your own frame connectors, make sure you measure how wide your sub-frames are first. I used the measurements from the Big-Block-Dart tech article and they are wrong. To make a long story short, I was in a hurry and didn't measure mine. BAD MOVE!
The tech article says to use a 2" by 3" by 53" piece of rectangular mild steel. Well my frame rails are 2 1/2 inches wide. So no matter how you look at it the 2x3 is not going to fit right. I was able to cut and weld things so they fit right and will be just as strong but it was a pain in the *** to do and it only cost me some time but that was time I should have spent elsewhere on the car.
Just thought I would warn everybody to not take things in tech articles as being gospel.
Jack