TheJDMan
06-08-2015, 05:56 PM
First a little background, I grew up all through Jr high and high school scrounging parts in a local salvage yard for my first car a 56 Chevy. So much so that I became very good friends with the salvage yard owner and his entire family and even worked there for a while. Now to the point of my post. I see a fair number of people, mostly younger, and even a few manufactures and magazine articles refer to "subframes" as "front clips". In all the years of scrounging salvage yards a front clip has always referred to all the sheet metal from the firewall forward and had nothing to do with the frame or suspension. You can normally see racks of front clips which have been removed and stacked ready for sale at your local salvage yard. A front clip may not have the same meaning today as it used to when cars had real frames which is why I ask the following. Has the definition of "subframe" and "front clip" changed or is this just a case of people not using the correct term?