Tubular front subframe

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Sep 15, 2011, 04:11 PM

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Thank you Evom

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Sep 15, 2011, 05:02 PM

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Well then, theres only one solution to this. Titanium!

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Sep 15, 2011, 05:42 PM

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Sep 17, 2011, 02:19 AM

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If someone is going to make these at a decent price with bombed welds (ie crack tested, be done by a coded welder) and signed off I'm interested.

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Sep 17, 2011, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by R/TErnie

You'll lack the stiffness that your suspension requires (or should require)

That and aluminum will fatigue over time.

You certainly 'could' make it out of aluminum... but you would really need to know what you're doing to match the stiffness and not get any yielding..... if money wasn't an issue, all OEM's would make your subframes out of aluminum..

You're better off making it out of chromo.... Ti would be insaine! lol