Strengthening "Torque boxes" .... Anyone??

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Aug 5, 2005 | 06:31 PM

Ron@Vengeance

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Strengthening "Torque boxes" .... Anyone??

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..

Aug 5, 2005 | 07:44 PM

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Ok, I don't want to sound stupid, but what are torque boxes?

Aug 5, 2005 | 08:21 PM

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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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Aug 5, 2005 | 11:17 PM

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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

Aug 6, 2005 | 08:21 AM

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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.

David