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Old 08-14-2011, 06:06 PM
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i just tubed my front end. i had a bunch of old metal from past turbo setups, i cut it all off and built new. it took a little over 40lbs of metal off the front.








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I thought you couldnt cut off the front frame-horns and remain "legal" for stock suspension?
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How are you going to mount the headlamps and such?
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i need to still build the mounts for the lights, it shouldnt be too back, i can care less about a racing class, they change the rules all the time anyways, i did it to just have more room and ease of maintenance .
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Are you going to make a one peice front end?
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im not sure, i would like to but i dont know how realy.
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i need to still build the mounts for the lights, it shouldnt be too back, i can care less about a racing class, they change the rules all the time anyways, i did it to just have more room and ease of maintenance .


In that case, I like it! The headlight mounts shouldnt be hard at all for ya.
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I am pretty sure that most classes will let you cut the frame horns off in front of the shock towers and still be legal
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even better, i worked on it some more tonight, i will make it very easy to fit the piping and what not.
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I haven't seen any rules requiring the front frame horns not be trimmed. I believe that it's possible that they could care about that... but I don't recall seeing anything saying it wasn't legal for a stock suspension class.

Get more photo's up as you work on it, everyone always likes seeing this sort of thing done.
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