Uh I'll have to look in to price, it is steel so it is heavy lol. And if I do make one I'd ship it as steel stock, not going to buy paint.

 

so do you think i could get those dimensions?

 

Ohh yea sorry I'll measure it up tonight, check back on my thread in a little bit.


Today I sand blasted my z6 valve cover, can't wait to paint this one, it's going to be so sweet. The "H", HONDA, and VTEC will all be white while the rest of the valve color will be purple. I'm contimplating painting the heads of the bolts white, I'm stupid and didn't grab all t5 valve cover bolts when I pulled the valve cover (The bolts alone are $25), I only got the front 2 lol. Also I am planning on having an S, O, H, C with each letter over a spark plug, and the letters will be white. This one is going to turn out badass.

I also made my wooden template of my front tow hook, I will have this one done probably tomorrow or Thursday. For those of you that have a front tow hook on an ek, how did you go about bolting it to the crash beam? Did you drill a hole on top and bottom and just drop the bolt down to the bottom of the beam (if you understand what I am saying). Going to mount it on Saturday as well as paint the front and back hooks purple.

 

Okay, here are the dimensions for my rear tow hook. You shouldn't need any other measurements than this, the rest of the angles and stuff are up to how you want to do them. My setup is different from one you'd buy, mine won't move up or down at all. The 2 bolts are both inside of the stock tow hook, not like a Benen one where on bolt is inside the hook and one is outside. I used a 1/2" 3 grade bolt for the bolt closest to the hook side since it would be taking all of the stress when being pulled. The second bolt that is there just to hold the hook from moving is 3/8" I believe. The bracket for the opposite side of the stock hook I made bigger than it could be. Instead of 3" long, make it 2". I would cut mine but I'm lazy and it'd get too hot to hold doing it on the band saw. Hope this proves useful to you, and if you make your own post it up!

 

thanks alot man do you think i could get away with using aluminum?

 

Dont use aluminum.. i just broke a buddys scooter because i took it off a launch ramp. it was like 27 degrees last night so the aluminum was real cold, and i pulled up to get off the launch ramp and it just broke.. i dont know much about different metals but everyone said that aluminum is junk when its cold.. so i wouldnt think it woudl stand up to towing your car.. unless you want it just for looks.

 

Well the make up of aluminum changes, depending on what is mixed with it. I went with steel since 1. I knew it would take the weight of the car no problem, just need to test they 3 grade 1/2" bolt to see if it holds and 2. aluminum would be easier to cut and shape but we don't have a dedicated sanding wheel/belt for aluminum so the aluminum would just clog up the sandpaper. I'm working on sanding the front tow hook to dimensions, should have it done by Friday and painted/mounted Saturday!

200th post!

 

i would keep the platform steel.. better quality

 

well the reason i don't want to is because of rust in michigan they use salt on the roads so everything rusts right away and when you paint it then hook up chains it will chip the paint off

 

just put a clear coat on it, protect it from the salt and not as noticable when it chips..