Sweet7

The guy i that fucked my clutch up was towing a jet ski.........

HADNSE

manual blurb might just be boilerplate to release liability but if it say do not, then do not. towing was an OEM option on the 928 though along with ski racks and stuff :P

HedgeHog

Mr. Stock,

Do you happen to remember or have the U-Haul part no. for the hitch? Also, does it interfere w/ the exhaust when mounted?

TIA...

DamonB

The hitch does not interfere in any way with the exhaust or suspension.

U-Haul does not stock the hitch, they make them one at a time and send them to you; at least that is what mine told me. The U-Haul part number is #24930 for the hitch and #3592 for the drawbar.

Mr. Stock

Whew! I was looking all over the place for the U-Haul receipt. I was going to crawl underneath the car to look up the part number just now.

Mr. Stock

The only thing the hitch interferes with would be a RE Amimaya difuser that I believe you have. You would have to cut out a rectangle in the diffuser for the hitch. Wael El-Dasher had done this.

HedgeHog

thx DamonB & Mr.Stock. I didn't even noticed a hitch on Wael's car...must inspect pix a again. Cutting a hole in the diffuser may not be such a bad idea as Mr. Amemiya neglected to do so and now it's holding water and dirt and other roadkills.

one problem solved...now to save up for a Longacre jack that can actually clear my bodykit. x 2

Mr. Stock

I see Wael every few months.

He did have a hitch installed for about 1 year. During that time, he had a rectangle cutout in his diffuser done by his body shop(BTW, the body shop is Final Finish which painted his car and mine as well). He has since decided not to tow a trailer any longer and instead is using one set of tires for both street and track driving.

DamonB

Here are pics of the Harbor Freight trailer and one where you can see the receiver of the hitch.

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DamonB

Here's a shot of the front of the hitch. The hitch extends under the fuel tank and then bolts up to the rear subframe. The stout subframe therefore carries all the pulling and braking loads, all the soft aluminum bumper has to do is support the tongue weight.

DamonB

Here's the rear of the hitch bolted to the underside of the aluminum bumper. As I mentioned before I didn't get the proper bolt kit with u-shaped bolts to mount to the bumper so I used plain bolts instead. No issues for me other than making it a little more difficult to tighten the bolts.

You can also see my four pole connector for the trailer lights. It stays completely hidden from view but yet is easy to reach. There is a grommet in the right rear of the spare tire well. My trailer lights are tapped into the stock tail light wiring harness and then pass through this grommet where they exit the car between the rear of the fuel tank and the bumper.

saxyman990

*thinks to self* Geeeez... what newbie brought this thread back from the dead....


oh...


heh heh. Thanks for the new pics Damon! Those actually helpe quite a bit (even if you did wait 2 years to put them up )

M104-AMG

iTrader: (8)

Just don't POP your motor at an AutoX or DE.

I guess I'm paranoid about that, so I tow her to each event, what a PITA!

:-) neil

DamonB

The old motor did pop at an autox! It had 97,000 miles on it and first run of the day I lost a rear apex seal. It would run, but not very well I swapped tires, hitched up the trailer and drove about 15 miles back home. The car could maintain 55 mph on the highway as long as I left it in fourth. In fifth it couldn't maintain speed!

Pulled the motor that week, new motor came the following week. Swapped all the parts on a Friday and Sat and then dropped the new motor back in on Sunday. Car was down less than 2 weeks