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Post  BigRigTech December 18th 2013, 11:03 am

My rear suspension mounts are already fully welded to the floor and there is zero rust. I'm about to hit it with 600'ish HP and a t-brake in the spring. Should I plate the torque boxes or is having them fully welded strong enough? I'm adding a mid plate and solid bushings in the top mounts on my rear axle too. What should I use on my C6 for a mount? Poly? Solid? I'm going to stick with the SSM lift bars for now, would an anti roll bar be beneficial wih the SSM lift bars?
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Post  richter69 December 18th 2013, 11:20 am

If you must run a trans mount use a stock rubber.

My boxes are just welded and the car goes 5.60s...... Junky ssm bars
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Post  BigRigTech December 18th 2013, 11:33 am

what do you have for a front/mid plates and tranny mount setup?
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Post  richter69 December 18th 2013, 11:51 am

Frontplate, midplate, no tranny crossmember or mount. Both cars this way.
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Post  BigRigTech December 18th 2013, 3:12 pm

How thick is the mid plate and what material?
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Post  richter69 December 18th 2013, 5:05 pm

.090 or so.... Steel
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Post  bigblok2000ranger December 18th 2013, 7:46 pm

May be overkill but I used 6x6" 1/8" plates welded to the inside of car and the stock upper control arm brackets are welded and bolted through to the plates under the car and also ran 1 5/8" from the plates to the main hoop of my rollcage for the uppers. my lowers are fully welded at all the seams.
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Post  Mike R December 18th 2013, 10:28 pm

No such thing as overkill, my uppers and lowers are fully welded and reinforced. I figured it's better to make them as strong as possible now rather than having to try to repair them later.

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Post  BigRigTech December 19th 2013, 11:01 am

I guess that was my question - if a guy does have trouble with the rear mounts while using SSM lift bars - which mount is the usually suspect? Upper or lower? My lower's appear to have egg shaped the front holes a little bit so I was planning to plate the mounts for that reason....Granted it took 15+yrs of racing for that to happen. It used to have a 650HP SBF running 10.00 with a glide, left on the brake at 5500 he said.
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Post  whatbumper December 19th 2013, 5:47 pm

Those arms will not really effect anything any more than any other arms. a little plate or a hardened washer will be fine welded on.

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Post  chuck December 28th 2013, 11:19 am

SSM bars are he'll on torq boxes. From my experience they stick the tire at first then unload, if you put a lot of horsepower to them.

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