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dirty19

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Pull the bumper off and bolt it to the bumper support. Make a cut in the bumper big enough to fit through, and feed it through.
Its that simple.

.:Made in OC:.

I attached my strap to a u-bolt on the bumper support.

BrianZ

After you build your tow hook you might want to test it. It need to be able to support the car being lifted from that point (i.e. suspension failure). I have seen several cars were they can be flat towed, but when they needed to be lifted the strap failed!

migs

For the rear tow strap connection. I use the factory tie down locations. They are located underneath the vehicle, near the side, rear jacking points. I would strongly recommend not using the factory rear tow hook.

dirty19

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Been thinking about this... Why would anyone think that a tow strap or a hook for that matter would support the front end weight of a car?
I'd think a experienced tow person wouldnt even entertain the idea of trying to lift a car from such a weak point. A bumper support isnt exactly a point that id trust to lift the car.
Pull it yes but not lift it.

Lo-Buck EF

no one has pulled on off the car yet. for pulling the car outta the gravel/sand trap i think its perfectly fine.

Lo-Buck EF

when we have those type of failures up here they just strap through the wheels or just flat bed it

Midnight Run

cut a slit on top of your hood and mount this on the strut tower. done

Lo-Buck EF

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
as pimpy as it is, i wouldn't go that route.
1. your nice hood will get all scratched up when you get pulled in from the strap sliding around on it (remember, the attachment point on the wreckers for flat tows/pulling out of the trap is low)

2. the strut tower in a honda was not ment to be yanked on (some wrecker dudes/chicks aren't the softest)

i just got my eg home, so i'll be mounting my soft front hook soon (maybe today if i feel like it). i'll take pix, but what everyone has said is the way to go. bolt that biotch to the beam. and if u don't have one, you might wanna think about putting one back. bumper beams save frame rails and the front of your motor when u hit ****.

migs

Ah, I thought we were discussing the points on where to put your straps when towing, not being yanked off the track.

Some tracks use your front wheels to bring off the track. I think that would be cool if done all the time.

dirty19

iTrader: (1)

There was a guy who posted here not too long ago who made roll cage type beams..
It was pretty trick.

BrianZ

Not many racing sanctioning bodys have a flat bed on hand. Or if you broke wheel studs you can't strap it to the wheels. I guess it depends on who you drive/race with but the CCR's I have read say that a tow hook must support the car.

FormulaIntegra

When I lost the driver's side front wheel on track a few months ago (dad thought I torqued the lug nuts, I thought he did), the tow crew popped the hood and lifted the front end of the car via a strap around the upper driver side engine mount. Other than having to rig another strap to hold the hood up, it worked perfectly fine, and got me back to my pit without any collateral (sp?) damage.

At my last race, I needed a flat tow, and use a rated mountain climbing strap secured to the front factory tie downs with a rated quick link. No problem at all.

essex

The bumper beam is not really meant to be pulled on that's why they attach it with small bolts(10mm i believe). Its true it saves all of that but that is going the other direction lol.
Why don't you start a build thread for this new eg

Lo-Buck EF

This is true. The beam isn't ment to be pulled. But I used mine at least once last year w/o issue. The tow hook spot would work but I gotta work it into the splitter brackets.
I didn't think about a build thread. Maybe I will. But I realy don't care that much.

Lo-Buck EF

i looked at mine and tried a few things. you could get the i/o port strap that comes with an end on it http://www.ioportracing.com/Merchant...gory_Code=IOPP bolt it to the factory tow hook spot (i did it in the top hole) and run the astrap out the fog light hole. my only consern is its not the straightest run for the strap. i took some pix i'll post up later.

FormulaIntegra

The beauty of tying into the factory tie down is that it allows for lateral pull vectors from a tow vehicle. Pulling from a point behind the bumper cover and through a hole in such, doesn't necessarily allow for that, and could potentially cause more undue damage than is necessary. I'm still trying to come up with a design for a flat tow hook that will allow for off-angle flat tows that won't cause more damage to anything on the front end of the car, including having to dig it out radiator deep in a sand trap, and still let me bump draft someone without carving gouge in their rear bumper, too.

Lo-Buck EF

the bumper beam is the next best place.
for the op since he has no beam, he coyld bolt the strap to the frame rail where the beam bolts into and run the strap out the bumper cover.

essex

What about running a hard hook off the factory hook point .cutting off the big loop end drill a hole and bolt on the soft strap

Lo-Buck EF

eh. its doable but you couldnt extend it down because it would scrape and/or the strap would have no where to go (since everyone and their mom runs a splitter of some sort). so to bring it up might work but there realy isnt a 100% straight shot.
i say untill someones bumper beam gets pulled out from pulling their car out of the trap, run it there. unless you wanna custom fab something up (which i have an idea for but i'm not gonna bother)

MonkysBettrHalf

The bumper method:






Courtesy of .RJ

dirty19

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looks good but once lifted thats gonna bend faster than a corn stalk in the wind.

Lo-Buck EF

again, cars should not be lifted by the tow strap. pulled towed, but not lifted. we use wheel lifts for that up here.

BrianZ

that might be true for your area, but if you race with NASA it is a requirement that the car can be lifted by the tow point..