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Old 06-17-2009 | 06:34 PM
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home made rear shock tower brace

these are pictures of the rear braces. they seem to work fine.it took two days to make them. what do you think?
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Old 06-17-2009 | 06:35 PM
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where's the picture?
 
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Old 06-17-2009 | 06:39 PM
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sory trying to send them..
 
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Old 06-17-2009 | 07:12 PM
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hope these are pic.

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Old 06-17-2009 | 07:14 PM
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that is sick man. i want one like that
 
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Old 06-17-2009 | 07:28 PM
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real easy to make..1 inch alum. bar stock and rod ends..bracket made from old rear seat bracket. shosk bracket can be made from 2" u channel....drill and tap holes....only hard part was finding left hand taps...
 
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Old 06-17-2009 | 07:29 PM
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i dont have time to do all that lol.. mounting it to the rear seat brackets is alot better than just the shock. +rep to you.
 
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Old 06-17-2009 | 09:37 PM
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looks like a cusco piece... what type of end links did you use?
 
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Old 06-17-2009 | 10:52 PM
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thats nice!!! i like!
 
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Old 06-21-2009 | 06:56 AM
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i used 3/8 x 24 for the shock and 7/16 x 20 for the seat bracket. i got them from sumitt racing.. the bar stock is 1" alum. i just welded a plate to the seat bracket after cutting the seat rest part off. the mount for the shock center mount is just drilled and taped and mounted to the seat mount bar.. it took a day to make it. the first bar i put there was just going shock to shock ( after market bar ) the more i looked at it the more i thought it was useless.it supported nothing...i took out my esat to add amps. i looked at the seat bracked and though if i could tie them together with the shocks it might be better....it worked really well.. i have a matching bar for the rear upper seat belt placement at rear piller....that with a dc sport dc 1 front strut bar reall made the car feel tighter....
 
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