- Location
- San Diego
that is once sexy skid plate!
IMHO it doesn't need to come that far back, but since you wanted to protect your fancy exhaust I guess it had too.
frame stiffeners do a lot more than spread the load out of a skid, they are a good idea for any unibody rig that is going to be flexing and used offroad, and all you would need to do is add the holes in for your side mounts, and possibly slot the mounting holes in your skid just a bit..
I would also find a way of tying in the rockers to the frame rails once stiffened. seems to me a pretty hard hit on them could bend the door sill pretty bad.
IMHO it doesn't need to come that far back, but since you wanted to protect your fancy exhaust I guess it had too.
frame stiffeners do a lot more than spread the load out of a skid, they are a good idea for any unibody rig that is going to be flexing and used offroad, and all you would need to do is add the holes in for your side mounts, and possibly slot the mounting holes in your skid just a bit..
I would also find a way of tying in the rockers to the frame rails once stiffened. seems to me a pretty hard hit on them could bend the door sill pretty bad.