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Shorty
9th March 2014, 08:06 PM
Just wondering if anyone is using them?
Only ones I've seen don't seem to be wide enough. Is it worth getting some lazer cut?

PorkChop
9th March 2014, 08:21 PM
I am, supplied by DanST, I think he has a tech drawing for them on his website. I think you'd be daft to run without them, so if you can't get plates to suit your spec, I would get some made up.

Shorty
9th March 2014, 09:07 PM
Yeah I've seen those, he has them listed on ebay but they don't seem wide enough for the haynes chassis.
How did you mount yours? Do you have a picture?

SeriesLandy
9th March 2014, 11:03 PM
I've got a set on my car and they aren't wide enough.
At the front I welded in a piece of inch box either side and bolted the plates too it.

At the diff end I cut the plates down, welded to some 19mm box then welded to the chassis.

Not pretty but it works
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7312/13046101434_19ef87721b_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/13046101434/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/serieslandy/13046101434/) by Series1Landy (http://www.flickr.com/people/serieslandy/), on Flickr

Shorty
10th March 2014, 07:43 AM
Ah yes, good idea. Will have to look at that

SeriesLandy
10th March 2014, 01:30 PM
If I were near the beginning of my build I would add 2 sets of 25mm box to the tunnel to bolt the prop catchers onto. As I had the floor on, painted chassis and tunnel side on, I went for the crude way.

If you are going to mod the catchers, danst now does a stainless pair, so don't get them.