240 trailing arm reinforcements

blkaplan · Mar 17, 2005

doing the rear bushings in poly so i figured why not reinforce.

if people are intested i could sell these gusset plates pretty cheaply

excuse the mediocre welding at best, not much time or effort put into these but they should be much stiffer and not much heavier.

JW240 · Mar 18, 2005

Looks nice, I was also thinking of making that..
You should contact IPD and try if they want to sell your parts... :-P

Would be difficult to realize and here on tbricks there are enough people interested I think..

Blackbrick · Mar 19, 2005

I plan on doing something similar for mine. Please post your results after installation, I am very interested

blkaplan · Mar 19, 2005

well autoxed the car today with the reinforcement plates. rear end seemed great...

also new poly bushings helped but i had no complaints with the performance of the rear

blu92in99 · Mar 20, 2005

Are you going to try those reinforcement plates on a set of trailing arms that have not had new bushings installed? I'm not being a nay-sayer or anything like that, but the before/after "butt-o-meter" results were definitely biased because of the new poly bushings.

Just my $0.02...

Either way, looks great! What do the plates weigh?

-Justin

blkaplan · Mar 20, 2005

less than 2 lbs.

its true. and honestly i am not entire sure they needed it but i have a lot of rear grip and the more things i can do to assure my geometry stays true the better launches im gonna get and the better drifts i will be able to control...

Boosted2003 · Mar 21, 2005

blkaplan said:
excuse the mediocre welding at best, not much time or effort put into these but they should be much stiffer and not much heavier.

Tig welding is not easy man. Better than I can do. Im good at mig welding though.

240 trailing arm reinforcements

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