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Old 08-05-2005, 06:31 PM
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I know this is a common problem on a Fox body. Anyone fabricated anything to work on an F body? I noticed mine are tweaked a bit after some HARD launches Im thinking of welding in some plates and boxing the "boxes" in..
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Ok, I don't want to sound stupid, but what are torque boxes?
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If you mean where the rear lower conrtol arm bolts to the body (nobody calls the torque boxes) i have BMR subframes and they actually wrap around where the bolt goes thru with 1/4" thick steel. see picture below.
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Im actually referring to the area inward of your subframes. You can catch a glimpse of it in the upper left hand corner of your pic. Nice welding
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I fabbed 1/8 plate "layovers" on the outside of each one and welded them in, one side all the way to my Global West frame connectors, the other side the same length and welded across the back. They do look flimsy, once they are tweaked they are hard to get back.

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Thats exactly what I did today. Looks kickass and ALOT stronger than stock....
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C'mon man, you know you can't post something like this without posting pics, damn use your head.

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Originally Posted by SPANKY LS1
C'mon man, you know you can't post something like this without posting pics, damn use your head.

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Yeah, pics please, cuz I still have no clue what ur talkin about!



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