OUT WITH THE OLD VW. IN WITH THE SUBARU

[DeepBusch69]

Dave, good lines on the new tubes.  It does tie in nice with the front.  I say add em in

[Yummi]

looking at img. 1701. I have tacked in a bars coming down the side, following the  body line from the front of car.  this adds a boxed area right in front of the bar. my thought is, will it help, to tie it into the upper cage, coming down the back of the car? i thank this is the same area your saying to x.

Hmmm, I don't see as to where they add much other than to raise the belt line of the engine bay?  Look good, but don't see any real benefit?  Smart ones will chime in soon enough. 

[Yummi]

yummy something like this??? the only problem I can see is it my interfere with a intercooler setup.

Hmmm...  not what I was thinking.  Yellow is camberg setup between bars, just for flex.  You do have dead tube in green circle with a load path that does not appear to have much support, a possible solution via red line that is a lot of work.  Other solution would be gusset and or plate at the purple area? 

Like I say, smart ones will chime in soon enough. 

Me?  I am just mediocre with M.S. Paint.

[Punkur67]

I think an x brace would do more and look beter too. And definitely fix that dead tube pointed out by Yummi

[Carlriddle]

Looks like a tube was cut under mid rail about where main hoop is?  Wonder did that tie up to the dead tube?

I think planning for the I/C with layout now is smart, cause ya gonna wanna turn up boost soon to increase grin factor and ya gonna have to have cooler then. 

[fabr]

I'd chime in but am having a hard time telling what is what from the pics.

[big dave]

There is a tie in that carries the load. you can see in white. I did have a gusset in the red location. I found that the trailing arm would hit it and limit my travel. Do we / you fill that the tube in white is not enough
 support??

[fastcorvairs]

OK Dave here's the inter-cooler. It's a heavy Brut but it should work for what you need.  Sorry for the delay and best of all I'll only cost you 75$.  Plus a little shipping unless you want to meet up with me half way between here and Goodland.

[Yummi]

There is a tie in that carries the load. you can see in white. I did have a gusset in the red location. I found that the trailing arm would hit it and limit my travel. Do we / you fill that the tube in white is not enough
 support??

Photo angle is everything - did not see that one. 

Fabr - click on pictures no worky?

[big dave]

OK Dave here's the inter-cooler. It's a heavy Brut but it should work for what you need.  Sorry for the delay and best of all I'll only cost you 75$.  Plus a little shipping unless you want to meet up with me half way between here and Goodland.

Boy it looks huge. what are the measurements on it? inlet, outlet and  over all. not knowing much about intercoolers. I would thank on a air to air cooler bigger is better. I'm sure there is a point that it can be to big.

[fastcorvairs]

Photo angle is everything - did not see that one. 

Fabr - click on pictures no worky?

Three inch inlet and outlet. I'll get the rest tonight.

[fabr]

There is a tie in that carries the load. you can see in white. I did have a gusset in the red location. I found that the trailing arm would hit it and limit my travel. Do we / you fill that the tube in white is not enough
 support??

That's better,looks fine to me.

[dsrace]

There is a tie in that carries the load. you can see in white. I did have a gusset in the red location. I found that the trailing arm would hit it and limit my travel. Do we / you fill that the tube in white is not enough
 support??

in this pic there is a red diagonal line turn that into a gusset and great. from the shock mounts heading back there are two tubes up and down....1 goes down to the bottom if your really worried about twist run the other down on both sides and a piece connecting them at the bottom and i would think the rest looks fine based on what can kind of see in the pics. just my opinion

[dsrace]

also anyone every get an up close look at the factory innercooler off a ford ecoboost engine?

[big dave]

well got the paint on. time to put it back together.