Wow, this thread's been around here longer than I have!!

I opted for the 2x3 tubing, welded through the floor, and outriggers for the 10-point cage. I'm very happy with it



JC

That looks really good. I may need to take a trip to the steal yard and pick up some 2x3. May as well do it right the first time.

I see a documentary in the making.

"The steel is inexpensive compared to the labor, but it's a labor of love anyway"

Hmmmmm...........y'know I like you and all, but the love thing ? we're not going to be taking warm showers in the middle of the morning together, right ! If so, I've got some splainin' to do !!

I've got a full bottle of argon and the hoist is clear, sorta.

Winter is almost here. This is a good time to stiffen up the old car. Saw a post about frame connectors and thought this post needed a little bump.
I did my car last winter with the help of this post and some of the members. (Thanks) I have some pics I can e-mail if anyone wants to check them out.

Bump...
And why not post those photos as most of the older ones have dropped off and are no longer available.

Ok here goes. I welded these connectors on my 67 Coronet. This pic. is the 3 x 5" .125" thick plates that get welded on the end of the 3x2 tubing.
for attaching the connectors to the frt. crossmember.

Here is the 4' lengths of the 2x3's. The thickness I bought was .092" which I thought was more than strong enough and I could have gone lighter.

Here I cut the frame out and the 2x3's fit in perfectly. I also drilled the holes in the frame to plug weld the connectors. I used the connectors to scribe the lines on the floor pans to cut them.

Here is how the floor pan looks after I got done with it. I used a cheap $20 high speed air body saw from Harbor Freight which made the job easy.

Here's another pic of the cut.

Here is a pic of how nice the connector slides into the car frame rail.

This is where the front of the frame connector is welded to the crossmember.

I welded the front and the rear of the connector before I started welding it to the floor. When welding to the floor I just welded 1in. beads. This was the first time I ever mig welded and I thought it turned out good.

Here's a few pics under the car

Another

Pic topside of the connector all welded in.

Here's another view

Special thanks to Todd DesMarais and others for the pictures and info they sent me.

Looks like another sweet job. You chassis guys think it's worth it to tie the seat supports into the connector? I'll you need is a small, "L" shaped piece of metal to bridge the gap. It then forms a "ladder" between the rocker and the subframe connector. I did that on my Charger and I'm thinkinbg about doing it on my RR.

This in regards to a post on Page 2 regarding max file size that can be sent to Hotmail. This may have been brought up by someone else on page 3 or later as I have not gotten that far yet.

Hotmail has bumped up their storage limit to 250 MB and file attachment size to 10 MB. The only problem is they may be rolling the service into effect and it may still be the old 10MB, 1MB file limit.