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Old 10-24-10, 12:52 AM
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Thumbs up 12a tow truck
I know its not exactly "performance" but this trip put my motor over 196k miles, no porting, just a racing beat 4 barrel intake, a carter 500 non choke carb, and straight through exhaust. o and a hybrid s4/s5 na tranny (s5 box, s4 tail section) and i got like 16 mpg average over the whole trip, picked it up in everett, washington, and drove it back down to portland oregon, ~220 miles, heres some pics i took of the "tow bar" i made with nothing more then the scrap Joel had laying around his backyard...





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combined weight of: both cars, my fat ***, the $1500 military toolbox in the back of my car and the 72% of the bicycle and the 2 concreted fence posts i used to make the tow bar, was easily over 4000 pounds...
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Old 10-24-10, 04:52 AM
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LMAO

awesome work dude.
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why thank you just waiting for joel to add in some comments... im going to make another tow bar, but its gonna be detachable this time... and will be of MUCH better construction...
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You better hope that those pieces of bicycle are made from 4130.wow it looks dangerous jordan.
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nope everything was mild steel
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Glad you got it back from a 220 mile trip but dont use that ghetto crap again. A REAL towbar is cheap. Buy one and save everyone there lives.
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That's terrifying! How is that even allowed on the road? You're putting everyone else in danger with a rig like that.
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You better hope that those pieces of bicycle are made from 4130.wow it looks dangerous jordan.
Best hope it wasn't! 4130 is scary, it is brittle and doesn't like to be welded. You need to braze it or TIG it and then normalize it.

That... contraption looks like it was welded with jumper cables, Vise-Grips, and some loose change.

(4000? More like 5000)
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That's terrifying! How is that even allowed on the road? You're putting everyone else in danger with a rig like that.
Welcome to America, Aaron.
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it worked well enough to get the car from everett washington to portland oregon (~220 miles) and not fall apart...
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it worked well enough to get the car from everett washington to portland oregon (~220 miles) and not fall apart...
Just because driving drunk works doesn't mean you should do it.

It works, until it doesn't.
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man now thats funny, Im glad I dont live near you....
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I made this to tow an FC shell and I was still a little concerned. All 6 joint studs are about 5/8" diameter and the bolts to mount the ball receiver are 1/2". No, I'm not going back out into the 20 degree night to take better pictures.



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Next time, just bring a friend and a tow strap. I seriously think that'd be safer.
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And I was scared to pull my FB with my little Nissan truck. You are crazy!
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I have pulled many 7's and other cars in many ways but this beats me in many ways . Last rx7 I pulled strap got loose on a turn getting into interstate I slowed down and car fell forward scary so I pulled it that way about 100 miles no straps I was shtting bricks and you drove.220 wow crazy
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yeah i drove it that way, but i tested the snot out of it before i drove it anywhere... and i designed a couple failsafes into it as well.
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yeah i drove it that way, but i tested the snot out of it before i drove it anywhere... and i designed a couple failsafes into it as well.
you are a true red green!
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