6/16/2007
I went over to Jon's house today and fabbed up a rear strut brace from an idea that I had, then he took the basic concept and added his own dopeness to it! So now I have the 1st Stealth Fab S13 rear strut bar.
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Jon took some measurements from his S13 coupe and started by coping/notching the 1" tubing.
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Rear bar mocked up.
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Now that we got all the measurments on his car I backed mine up into the drive way to get tack welded together. In these pics he is tacking the forward bar.
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Now time to tack the rear bar.
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All taked up and ready to come out to be finish welded.
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Jon's home made welding table.
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Did I mention that Jon can weld really good?!?!?
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Finished bar installed and getting a 2 thumbs up from Andrew in the back seat. I am going to leave the bar this way for now, later I plan to get it powder coated a titanium color. *EDIT 6/19/2007* We are going to add a plate to the bar with a lil stealth fab bling, pics to come later.
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