Hey GTABurnOut Heres The Pic Of What It Used To Look Like Its The Best Pic I Can Find

 

 

 

Just installed this over the weekend. Blackworks Racing tow hook.
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Great snow day pic. Ive run that same lollipop hook but busted my knee a couple of times on it just like Im sure you have LOL

Went with a folding hook

 

Haha I haven't yet!

 

A soft strap made from webbing material will save a lot of legs especially when rushing around the car.

 

I bought one of the ones that Meathooker made. Very easy to install and looks great! Hopefully I won't need it but its good to have just in case.

 

Whats up with lower driving lights? They look like there fitted into a special circular part of the bumper cover

Interesting for sure

 

It's a custom fiberglass project I did. Here is the thread I made on it: https://www.evolutionm.net/forums/ev...nt-bumper.html. I was going for the Evo V look.

 

I like the simple straps better and they will save your legs, if you are trying to go around car in a hurry.

 

Fair point, but for those who have built their Evos for track duty, most of us already have a sizable splitter protruding from the front of the car that precludes getting close enough to the bumper to hit a protruding tow hook.

I HAVE however taken a chunk out of my leg with one of my aluminum diveplanes mounted to the sides of my front bumper cover, when working on the car in the garage, with the front splitter removed. Which pissed me off greatly when it happened, because it hurt and cut me, and also because one of the mounting points of the diveplane broke.

I now either remove the diveplanes when I know I'm going to be working around the front of the car for a long time, or I put a big orange traffic cone in front of each of the diveplanes.

 

The guys @ Move Over Motorsports offer these for all Evo X

 

New pic of mine:

 

Hi All,

Ton of great ideas on here, I combined some of my favorites into a new idea. Below are the criteria I wanted in a tow hook:

1. Doesn't stick out in front of the car (shin banger)
2. Don't have to chew up front bumper much or any
3. Can hold 10,000lb load
4. Can be used with or without crash beam
5. Bolt on if possible

After quite a bit of staring at the front of the car with the bumper off, I finally came up with a decent design and after a bunch of iterations to reduce the stress so it can hold the 10,000lbs (nice to have engineering programs), and sent it off to the CNC shop at work to be put together. A few McDonald's gift cards later, it showed up ready and painted red!

I put a few pictures of how it came out in the attachments. It stuck out in the perfect spot so I didn't have to cut the front bumper at all, just trim the mesh away in the corner of the opening. It also just so happened that in this location if you have the stock license plate bracket, it mounts perfectly over the top of the hook and completely hides it when you are on the street.

This is definitely only rev 1 as I was not happy with several aspects of it that will hopefully get updated this winter while the car is in hibernation. Here is a list of the coming updates:

1. Change mounting and geometry to add a bolt into the side of the support (perpendicular to current bolts). I will have to drill a hole to do so, but given that all 4 bolts right now are in a straight line, I think if you yanked hard enough on it that it would "peel" the support off towards the passenger side and possibly rip the bolts out.

2. Shave weight. First prototype weighed like 4lbs out of steel. Changing the mounting should allow it to have much thinner metal and still be strong enough to support a good yank from the emergency truck if it ever needs to happen. Maybe even aluminum.

3. Several geometry changes that I missed. Made one small error in measure the bolt hole distances, and turns out the support that I bolted it to has a slight bend in it which kind of screwed up the mounting and I had to add washers behind it.

Overall I am very happy with it though, and hiding it behind the plate worked out really slick on accident.

I have all the drawings of this made up if anyone would want them to make your own. Hopefully will be posting Rev 2 pics up here in the next couple months.