Landshark007
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Post by Landshark007 on Oct 19, 2018 23:17:26 GMT -5
When you pull it to get together it acts like it's spring loaded so it's trying to pull it self out which will make it not want to bend the other direction makes it easy to control and Bend were you want it to
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Post by DerbyKing88s on Oct 19, 2018 23:19:12 GMT -5
Ya, makes sense to me
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Post by Jeffrey7x on Oct 19, 2018 23:20:37 GMT -5
Yep i suck the fronts in. Never done rear rails. I could see that being touchy depending on makes and models. Like myself I run mopars and metric caddys for most part so that Wouldn't benefit me to do the rears. This thread could get interesting I feel doing so helps the most on low sitting, dished Fords. Probably doesn’t make a huge difference but to me it’s worth doing. Depending on how you set up the trunk of that caddy I think it’d be worth a shot. I’m sure you know those rails need all the help they can get. Building one this winter myself and will be greatly experimenting with the rear rails.
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Post by Landshark007 on Oct 19, 2018 23:22:36 GMT -5
I pull mine in a couple inches with big ratchet strap. I do it on GMs
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Post by DerbyKing88s on Oct 19, 2018 23:48:20 GMT -5
Yep i suck the fronts in. Never done rear rails. I could see that being touchy depending on makes and models. Like myself I run mopars and metric caddys for most part so that Wouldn't benefit me to do the rears. This thread could get interesting I feel doing so helps the most on low sitting, dished Fords. Probably doesn’t make a huge difference but to me it’s worth doing. Depending on how you set up the trunk of that caddy I think it’d be worth a shot. I’m sure you know those rails need all the help they can get. Building one this winter myself and will be greatly experimenting with the rear rails. ya fords are where we have seen/done it the most, we access to a industrial punch so we can make the rear rails of the caddies fully boxed, out a couple factory looking holes in it and no one will notice, at that point it becomes the same idea as a ford. The caddies will sit a little more level tho. I’m excited to see how it goes, hopefully they don’t take too many read end shots and after the heat we can role it our selves with the skid loader or endloader
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Post by owen11x on Oct 20, 2018 8:02:28 GMT -5
I guess after sleeping sleeping on it. I was thinking on a old iron or metric caddy if you sucked rear rails in drastically and made your notch or dimple right at the beginning of the taper it might actually work pretty fool proof if you can get it to roll without taking a bad shot first
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Post by DerbyKing88s on Oct 20, 2018 8:18:10 GMT -5
Ya that’s where my mind was at too. Cut the Hangup bar out, suck together, weld bumper and hungup bar bar in and dimple where you want
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Post by owen11x on Oct 20, 2018 8:57:19 GMT -5
Good to have input on the smaller cars. I don't run them but be good to have input on both and suvs and trucks to. Though they are all similar. They are all very different
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Post by DerbyKing88s on Oct 20, 2018 9:37:23 GMT -5
Ya, I would like to know what the w body guys do, we have ran 1 bonestock one but nothing compared to the builds going on. Much respect to the compact guys finding creative ways just like with big cars, just less room lol.
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Post by demoboy333 on Oct 20, 2018 15:29:17 GMT -5
^^ True story. I’m not a small fella either. Gets interesting some times. I first started running an aftermarket column because I could barely get into a car I was building once I put a cage in it.... and I didn’t even have the door on yet... lol I wonder if maybe with fwds they tilt the sub, bolt the rear body mounts, then suck the front of the sub up with the front mounts? The w body's they are tilting the unibody not the sub. It's very interesting to see. An if you put your cage inside your doors on compacts it getting you more run I do it since tall guy in compact gets tough. If you saw me sit in my 2nd you'd laugh but she's hard
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Post by DerbyKing88s on Oct 20, 2018 15:35:31 GMT -5
Nuts, I don’t even know how to go about tilting a unibody car
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Post by dean88 on Oct 20, 2018 16:58:49 GMT -5
^^ True story. I’m not a small fella either. Gets interesting some times. I first started running an aftermarket column because I could barely get into a car I was building once I put a cage in it.... and I didn’t even have the door on yet... lol I wonder if maybe with fwds they tilt the sub, bolt the rear body mounts, then suck the front of the sub up with the front mounts? I know the feeling. I built a tempo and I barely fit in it (I'm 6'4). It wasn't until I got to the track did I realize I never tried getting in with a helmet. I spent the whole show driving like a gangster.
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Post by DerbyKing88s on Oct 20, 2018 21:49:05 GMT -5
I’m 6’2 and I was hitting my head in the w body we built a couple years ago without a helmet, I really liked the van seat I used in the caddy, arm rests on both sides and easy to modify to get whatever height you want
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Post by klicky96 on Oct 21, 2018 16:54:25 GMT -5
Pressuring a motor and trans without protectors or lower cradle usually leads to busted mounts and broken bellhousings. If you don't have protectors, don't use the engine and trans as a kicker. Use the body to manipulate the frame.
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Post by DerbyKing88s on Oct 21, 2018 16:58:26 GMT -5
Ya absolutely a great point, a trans especially won’t take it
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