Custom Tow Hook install: Pix inside! :)
04-01-2011, 10:33 PM
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Dude, this car is constantly parked in front of a house next to the stafford school or whatever right? If so, I live on the other side of the block... small world.
04-01-2011, 11:27 PM
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Dude, you are way overthinking this. The towhook will bend in an event of an accident. It was not designed to take any lateral/compressive loads. It's designed for longitudinal/tensile loads. Completely different stresses. Your crumple zones will work just fine. I would be more worried about backing into a curb or something.
04-02-2011, 12:14 AM
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This is the first thing that I thought of when I opened the thread!
04-02-2011, 12:21 AM
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Adios.
04-02-2011, 12:32 AM
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Never said 90* now did I? Regardless, neither of us are automotive engineers, making you're opinion that I've overthought it equally as valid or invalid as my "overthinking." Personally, I'm not a river, so I'm not going to potentially risk safety for looks. Haters gonna hate and ricers gonna rice.
Adios.
Adios.
I don't understand what you are trying to argue. Take a steel rod and try to stretch it. Won't budge right? Now use the same force to compress it and watch it bend.
The tow hook was design for pull not for push.
04-02-2011, 12:37 AM
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The rules of physics are the same for all fields of engineering.
I don't understand what you are trying to argue. Take a steel rod and try to stretch it. Won't budge right? Now use the same force to compress it and watch it bend.
The tow hook was design for pull not for push.
I don't understand what you are trying to argue. Take a steel rod and try to stretch it. Won't budge right? Now use the same force to compress it and watch it bend.
The tow hook was design for pull not for push.
And there is a difference between discussion and argument, learn it or it will become an argument. That is why I put in big letters ***SPECULATION BEGINS HERE***
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04-02-2011, 12:59 AM
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It'll crumple, yes, but are you really trying to say it'll absorb 100% of the energy and not transfer any to the frame?
And there is a difference between discussion and argument, learn it or it will become an argument. That is why I put in big letters ***SPECULATION BEGINS HERE***
And there is a difference between discussion and argument, learn it or it will become an argument. That is why I put in big letters ***SPECULATION BEGINS HERE***
04-02-2011, 01:06 AM
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i was trying to make it up this rainy/muddy/steep trail and i had started to slip sideways in my TOYOTA TRUCK, not my STi.
its gotten to the point that the left side tires were on the edge of the trail. on the left side was a drop off. drop off to a possible death or major injuries.
i have a portable winch mount on the front. so i put the winch on the front (i can also mount on the rear bumper winch mount). i then ran the winch cable to the immediate right of the truck to a tree. using a tree saver strap and a ****** block, i then ran the cable and connected it to a built in hoop that is mounted to the rear of the vehicle bolted directly to the frame.
i then slowly ran the winch which proceeded to pull the entire vehicle sideways and gave me enough space on the left side to safely lower myself off the trail.
so given enough properly built equipment and knowledge, pulling someone at 90 degrees or more is possible...
04-02-2011, 07:42 AM
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So let me get this straight, you must track your car then,right ? 
If not, why do people put towhooks on their cars when thee cars have never seen the light of day on a track or on a regular basis ? WTF ? I bet you 90% of you guys here have never been on a track and yet you still have these track-specific parts.
If not, why do people put towhooks on their cars when thee cars have never seen the light of day on a track or on a regular basis ? WTF ? I bet you 90% of you guys here have never been on a track and yet you still have these track-specific parts.
