Tie bars: front/rear

[redheddude222]

Chromoly gets my vote. lighter and stronger than mild steel, and it's never let me down. My current frame is 13-butted chromoly and takes a beating every day. Trust me, chromoly does bend quite a bit before it breaks. I bent the downtube in half on my old Fit frame.

*edit* I just realized no one would know what I was talking about, so here's an example. my old bike:

[MD323]

4 point or no point

[Skuce]

Ss

[FE3-323]

4 point or no point

whats the purpose of the 4 point? besides extra weight... think about it functionally & get back to me. It may look prettier but i don't see any improvements.

[FE3-323]

how much will folks pay for mild bars then. front/rear each

$50
$60
$80

[Skuce]

I want stainless....but mild/etc is fine...just means I have to powdercoat them.

[EGTeric93]

no time to read this all so ryan u need to IM me or call let me know the details but im prolly in


wow its been a while since my last post haha

[Rayman]

any pics of the design? i'll probably throw down for a rear one, in mild steel will be fine, i can coat it myself.

[smoke187]

Ryan you have an mx3 make me a front&rear set

are they going to have any type of powder coating on them or is that going to be up to the buyer to take care of?

[deadly_sleeper]

Ryan you have an mx3 make me a front&rear set

are they going to have any type of powder coating on them or is that going to be up to the buyer to take care of?

he no longer has the mx3. he sold it.

[therieldeal]

the 4 point IS stronger. think about it the 2 point creates a rectangle. with the four point it is creating triangles by supporting the ends of the subframe back to the firewall

[FE3-323]

im not a believer of that jon. by any means. by the design of the K frame (FWD applications) your just adding extra bars.

[MD323]

K frames are just spot welded togeter along the seams, if for no other reason, metal fatigue on a part that old is reason enough for me to want to brace it. 1500 lbs of applied force is a lot of weight on a spot welded K frame. Look at any high end mofern european car (FWD ofcourse) and they have seam welded K frames for this resaon

[smoke187]

take it off and seam weld it then

[tehstocker99]

im not a believer of that jon. by any means. by the design of the K frame (FWD applications) your just adding extra bars.

we can create a 3-d model of it (like in solidworks) and do fea (i think thats it) on it and see which one can handle what...