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dansedgli
 Post subject: Show us your Subframes!
PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 9:53 am 
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I want to see how everyone has made their subframes!

What materials are best to use and how should they be braced to be deem safe?

Does eveyone use custom engine mounts or make a frame to suit the mounts from the donor car?

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minstar
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 2:41 pm 
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Dan, here's mine. 3mm mild steel tube. Mainly reinforeced where it meets the cone towers more than anything else. Archangel used it as the basis for his (with obvious differences). You will find that most people used the mounts that came with the engine (though not all as you can see in Baracades version mount on top of gearbox).

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mine is very similar to matts, just square tube.

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minstar
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 2005 7:14 pm 
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Yeah Brad, SFA difference...

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Archangel007
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And speaking of SFA difference, heres mine.......

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Enjoy!! :lol:

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Soc
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 8:35 pm 
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minstar wrote:
Dan, here's mine. 3mm mild steel tube. Mainly reinforeced where it meets the cone towers more than anything else. Archangel used it as the basis for his (with obvious differences). You will find that most people used the mounts that came with the engine (though not all as you can see in Baracades version mount on top of gearbox).



Hey dude, who made your frame? Did they take measurements so they could make another? :P
(i'm in canberra too)

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minstar
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 12:56 pm 
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Soc, I did mate, start to finish. I took measurements but they washed off when I cleaned my hands... :lol:

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Soc
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PostPosted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 1:34 pm 
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Feel like making me a copy of yours? :P


or lending me yours for a week to give to a welder? :P

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dbr11k
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sounds like quite the idea me thinks so any ways

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