{"id":1695,"date":"2013-01-26T22:59:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T06:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1695"},"modified":"2013-01-26T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T06:59:28","slug":"subframe-disconnectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1695","title":{"rendered":"Subframe (dis)connectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chock this one up as another oopsie-<\/p>\n<p>The BMR subframe connectors appeared to be, and mostly were, a straightforward installation.\u00a0 Had John Coffey add a third attachment point to make them even better than off the shelf, and had them painted to match the underside of the car.\u00a0 They became the bitching-est bolt-in SFC&#8217;s ever assembled.<\/p>\n<p>One problem surfaced later though &#8211; the way they mount, interferes with the stock routing for the fuel and brake hard lines.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t immediately obvious, and I figured the difficulty I was having in getting those lines cleanly run (when provided with pre-bent stock replacement lines) was a figment of my own moronity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sfdc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1696\" alt=\"sfdc\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sfdc-300x112.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sfdc-300x112.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/sfdc-1024x384.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Turns out it was, but not in the way expected.\u00a0 These SFC&#8217;s\u00a0interfere with the way those hard lines are run by the factory, and my interpretation of the rules (&#8220;No alteration to the OE components is permitted.&#8221;), does not allow me to alter them to fit subframe connectors.<\/p>\n<p>So the 24lbs. of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=263\" target=\"_blank\">Non-Terminal Steelitis<\/a>&#8221; the car came down with 2 years ago, has for now anyway, been cured.<\/p>\n<p>Pulling the SFCs wasn&#8217;t too bad but the fuel and brake hard lines will have to be re-done, which is a bunch of work.\u00a0 Ugg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chock this one up as another oopsie- The BMR subframe connectors appeared to be, and mostly were, a straightforward installation.\u00a0 Had John Coffey add a third attachment point to make them even better than off the shelf, and had them painted to match the underside of the car.\u00a0 They became the bitching-est bolt-in SFC&#8217;s ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1695"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1702,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1695\/revisions\/1702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}