Yikes.....

Before......

 

And...After....Courtesy of Blehmco....

 

It is a good thing matt lives close to you or you'd be skrood dude....

 

Well....(trying not to sound like a commercial here, but) .....Maybe not.....something tells me that this may soon be availible for anyone with a core , and a mailbox.

 

matt93se broke his also i think

 

man this is happening more and more as these cars get older and older the next time i have mine off im reinforcing it

 

nice.. Thats exactly why i did this, Before i turboed



I welded 1/8 inch thick pieces of metal to the top where you see, and the entire bottom.

 

stock should be fine right??????? well besides the WSP?????

 

Well its not a good pic but yep got one too. I said I was going to re inforce it while back but did not get to it but I need to sone.

 

Not really; I have cracked mine while having a WSP, full exhaust, and intake.

 

any ideas ve or vg crossmember is universal? Where to get one? thanks

 

I bet because everyone jacks up their cars under the x-member doesn't help either. I have a good VE x-member for sale. Let me know

 

I set the jack under the oil pan

 

I lift it up by the rocker panels

 

i held my VG and VE crossmembers up to eachother and they looked identical

 

So if I was to, say, removing the oil pan to put a new gasket on, where would I support the engine from?

 

You can take two 4X4 blocks about 1 and 1/2 feet long and put them on the strut towers. Get a 4 foot pece of tubing about 3 inch by 3 inch squared and 1/8 thick wall. Put it on top of the 4X4 blocks across the motor. Jack up the motor and put a chain on one end of the motor. Then around the the tubing and to the other side of the motor. Then you can lower the motor and unbolt the crossmember.
SEE NO Z

 

Yes, that would probably work, but how about some place I can support the engine from underneath?

 

if matt is reinforcing these crossmembers, i will want to jump onto the bandwagon. if you are around, throw out a price or update your site man!

 

It takes a couple of hours to do the labor on them... I'll do them for $100, including return shipping to anywhere in the states. (that's exchange. I don't have any cores available, so you have to send me one to fix first.)

and yes, this is pretty common for those of us that drive the cars hard..
Also, both VG and VE are the same crossmember. all 89-94 are same so just get whatever they have at a junkyard.

pics?
http://blehmco.com/pics/car/drivetrain/crossmember/

 

Well my mech was able to get the crossmember and i found out that the rear engine mount was torn out of place, all said and done 100 for the beam,80 bucks for the rear motor mount.

 

that's pretty cheap....

 

I suspect this can be done as a preventative, not just as a repair? or will that be pointless?

 

Hmmm, time to raid the local junkyard. That way I can send down a few of them.

 

Why dig through the bone yard. $100 shipped.

 

This is my thoughts also....Time to bust out the welder again...

 

You support the motor by the crank pulley. Just put a block of wood on the crank pulley and support the motor with a jack.

 

i am no expert but is that a jack stand under the oil pan? and GOON did i read you right you jack your car under the oil pan? I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that's not the best place to jack a car by or support it by either. Just thought I'd through my 2 cents out

 

Nah.. I've repaired both mine and Jayson's (the pics above) and then reinforced them. just weld the thing back together and then grind the high spots down and weld a piece of plate steel on top of the weakest points. 2 hrs later, clean and paint and it's done.

 

stick welder FTL!!!

 

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you didn't get to see the welder in the shop

 

They wouldn't let me in...








I guess they heard about my welding skills...

 

yeh, only 1 redneck welder per shop

 

MattComet was telling me about this when we were installing my new tranny yesterday.

Crap, I am getting a little tired of breaking everything on these cars just by adding a few power mods.

Good thing Blehm is around to beef things up for us...

 

no blemco in my area

 

They have this thing now called s h i p p i n g.

 

I have accounts with DHL, UPS, USPS, and Fed Ex...