'95 F-150 track ready street beast

[Sbeck09]

I went and picked up 1.5 and 1.25 DOM tubing along with a big sheet of 1/4" steel so I can get this front suspension done. I'm so over thinking about it. Haha.







I found some PVC and fittings around the house so I decided to do a VERY rough layout of what I had in mind. What do you guys think of the idea? Ignore the exact angles and lengths. I'm a visual guy so I had to just see something there.

That leads me to needing some input. Again. If I bend the main cross bar of this new subframe I loose about 3" of width on each side. So my lower control arm mounts would be long. This seems weaker in my mind. I was just thinking that I could miter it all together instead and use gussets at the joints. Wouldn't that be more than strong enough for a 3600 ish pound truck on sticky 315s?

Throw in your ideas here. I'm putting something together this weekend darn it! Right or wrong. Haha. I need to keep moving so I can get motor and tranny mounts done before the end of the month.

[Project Bike Truck]

Personally, I would rather see one tube bent and longer tabes than a miter cut and joined part.

That being said if you had a longer tab and were worried about it moving add some gussets, reinforcements, and support tubes. I roll back to my off-road days and spend my time looking at trophy trucks and class 1 cars. if you have access to a plasma table or just a cutter you could fab some super strong crossmember out of 3/16 MS and incorperate the pick ups for your suspension. it wouldnt move at all. the frame will move before that will.

Just because someone has not done it on a autox or road car build doesn't mean it can't be done.

Just my few pennies in thoughts.