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Andrew · 7th August 2006, 10:14 PM

[This thread was just for my traction bars but I decided to make it into a thread for the whole car]

Okay so I looked up the Full-Race website for a set of traction bars for my EF drag car and saw the price of $450US I was like yeah, okay. Then of course there's the exchange rate which works out to be around $725NZ then you add freight, customs, GTX/tax on that and I thought nah fuck that shit and made my own:

Started off boring the factory tow hooks and tacking 1.5" chromoly between them:

Then I whipped these bad boys up at work. 1" chromoly with 4140 tapped ends. 12° taper with a 10mm radius - ala NHRA Funny Car stylez 8) 12mm rod ends.

And I spent most of tonight fabbing the brackets that complete the deal:

The semi-finished product:

Tomorrow I'm going to have a go at mounting my intercooler with the remaining chromoly (I also have some 3/4") and also some supporting brackets from the 1.5" moly to the factory crossmember holes.

Then it'll be fully tig welded by someone whose better then I am at mig welding

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Andrew Senior Member 6,000rpm (Max Torque) Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 2,184 Location: Auckland	EF Race Car build thread (Car back on track 21/9) [This thread was just for my traction bars but I decided to make it into a thread for the whole car] Okay so I looked up the Full-Race website for a set of traction bars for my EF drag car and saw the price of $450US I was like yeah, okay. Then of course there's the exchange rate which works out to be around $725NZ then you add freight, customs, GTX/tax on that and I thought nah fuck that shit and made my own: Started off boring the factory tow hooks and tacking 1.5" chromoly between them: Then I whipped these bad boys up at work. 1" chromoly with 4140 tapped ends. 12° taper with a 10mm radius - ala NHRA Funny Car stylez 8) 12mm rod ends. And I spent most of tonight fabbing the brackets that complete the deal: The semi-finished product: Tomorrow I'm going to have a go at mounting my intercooler with the remaining chromoly (I also have some 3/4") and also some supporting brackets from the 1.5" moly to the factory crossmember holes. Then it'll be fully tig welded by someone whose better then I am at mig welding __________________ Don't let anyone around you soak through and ruin what you were originally about Last edited by Andrew; 21st September 2008 at 01:29 PM.