show me your SFCs and ChuckW crossbraces

Reply #30 – June 28, 2008, 05:12:56 PM

5.8fastcat has pics in his Eliminator build thread. As well as Gumby's. I've looked at both and summised that fastcat's are easier to install, but Gumby's are probably more sturdy. old news, maybe.

show me your SFCs and ChuckW crossbraces

Reply #31 – June 28, 2008, 05:25:42 PM

Hard to say what to do. It's highly possible that at the front, the only attachment is around where he stuffed the tubing into the front subframe.

At the seat braces, the little welds that he did instead of just bolting the braces to the studs look kind of bad as well.

The install on my '83 is OLD...10 years perhaps. If I ever get around to doing SFC's on the '80, they will be like gumby did.

A couple ideas. First see how far the material goes into the front subframe and perhaps use a 3/4"-1" hole saw to cut through the outer material (not the SFC material) and weld at the holes to get more surface area welded. On the seat braces, where he took the easy way out by chopping the end off, instead of modding the notch, weld a piece of flat plate with a hole in it and actually bolt the studs to the crossbraces.