Got back under the car this afternoon to put a controversial piece of weight on the car, the frame rails. The process is pretty easy, test put frame rail on, then bash chassis rail enough to get it to fit up:
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I attached it with Tek screws at the front and rear temporarily, before drilling a lot of holes for bolts. Add bolts and replace tek screws:
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Eventually you end up with this:
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Drivers side was a bit harder because of the fuel lines in the way on one side, required a chunk of wood to push them away from the holes temporarily. The kit also came with a pair of nice stainless fuel line brackets, which was good as one of them was pretty busted up from the existing chassis rail hit.
These turned out to be invaluable while doing that work, makes for good directed light with the eyepro. Far better than the Peltor ones i had a while back.
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What was noticeable was that the hit to the chassis rail shifted the floorpan up a good 10mm or so, which is a testament to how flimsy the existing chassis rails are.
No idea if it will help with the rigidity, but im sure it will help with ripple strips and running out of talent.
While i was under there i test fit the OEM NB ladder bar reinforcement, just to see what sort of room im looking at needing for exhaust.
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Noticed that the NA doesnt have the floorpan captive nuts available for the NB ladder bar, so not sure what to do about that yet.
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Looks like its into a double skinned portion of the chassis too:
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Might have to make up some little captive nuts on plates and weld them in.
Also found that this little waxed canvas bag I picked up from the US fits all my in car tools perfectly:
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Trying to figure out what to do next. Perhaps tidy up the brake stuff and put the axles in. Not quite looking forward to doing the exhaust right now.