Little Tester had a good day...
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rdss
Junior Member
Im glad you figured it out
It takes time with him...... Usually with in depth instruction and some times scoldings....... He choses to max post vs search for his own answers and improve himself on his own. But that is spot on for the current generation of young people.....
rdss
Junior Member
That's not all you need to know, you need to know the set up of the rear suspension to understand why a rear sway bar is not needed and why DDM went with stiffening the rear end vs a sway bar....
slitzell
Boats n hoes
He is still just a baby! 19 yrs young just out of the pamper cruisers lol. He asks first....reads later.
Being only 23 im still young but i dont consider myself to be part of my generation.
rdss
Junior Member
Agree.
firstorbit84
New member
The rear brace will function the same as (or better than) a traditional rear sway bar. However my only concern is that it looks like it bolts into the torsion beam which could increase the chance of a failure over time, since it will be directing greater forces to the attachment points.
$ub$onic
The Sticker Guy
You have good point
As true and as sad as it is I try not to consider myself part of my generation. And have been working to change...
007CobaltLS
New member
Still going to call Dave an ******* for making us wait and to wait so long into the day today...
ThatTmoGuy
New member
You don't even have a Sonic yet...
american_tuner
New member
lmao
Dave@ddmworks
Supporting Vendor
Hey there everyone!
We are working on the pages to get these up on the site, but the webmistress is out sick today but will be back in tomorrow :banana:
As for some of the questions I can answer right now.
The charge tubes are multi-layer silicone and will be available in Black, Red and Blue. We will be offering 3 kits for the Sonic, a coolant kit which contains the 4 hoses closest to the turbo. A charge tube kit that replaces all of the charge tubes with silicone tubes. Lastly a combo kit that is both kits combines with a little savings for buying both.
The heat shield looks great, one of my favorite parts so far for the car. It fits over the existing piece and does a great job and keeping things cool. Some may have noticed that the piece on there is aluminum, but the production piece will be the same stainless steel that we use for the intake heat shield. There are 2 parts to make that heat shield, the first part mounts to the cylinder head, then the second part mounts to that and the stock mount for the stock heat shield. I have to admit, getting to the lower mount is kinda a pain, but you only have to do it once We could have made a single piece heatshield, but really wanted it to look cool and keep things cool, so we did the 2 piece which allowed us to follow the contours of the valve cover.
The rear brace works great! We have been testing similar braces on other torsion beam cars now for awhile and they are very effective. Yes it does require drilling 2 holes (took not even 5 minutes to do), but it is one of the best ways to stiffen up the torsion beam in the back and increase roll stiffness. I will post some pictures up of how we are doing it and the pieces that are involved to make sure it fits snuggly up in there, but it works very well. Also, this is a much less expensive way up beefing up the rear torsion beam, which means it will cost less to produce and we can sell it for less then doing a full sway bar with mounts, etc.
Lastly the bypass block off plate is something that the credit goes to Eric for. He is running an aftermarket blow off valve and needs something to block off where the stock bypass valve is located. We are going into production with these and it will be a great way to start having external blow off valves on the car, which will work better than even the forge setups.
I will get some more details up tomorrow when the pages go up.
Have a great night!
Dave
We are working on the pages to get these up on the site, but the webmistress is out sick today
but will be back in tomorrow :banana:As for some of the questions I can answer right now.
The charge tubes are multi-layer silicone and will be available in Black, Red and Blue. We will be offering 3 kits for the Sonic, a coolant kit which contains the 4 hoses closest to the turbo. A charge tube kit that replaces all of the charge tubes with silicone tubes. Lastly a combo kit that is both kits combines with a little savings for buying both.
The heat shield looks great, one of my favorite parts so far for the car. It fits over the existing piece and does a great job and keeping things cool. Some may have noticed that the piece on there is aluminum, but the production piece will be the same stainless steel that we use for the intake heat shield. There are 2 parts to make that heat shield, the first part mounts to the cylinder head, then the second part mounts to that and the stock mount for the stock heat shield. I have to admit, getting to the lower mount is kinda a pain, but you only have to do it once
We could have made a single piece heatshield, but really wanted it to look cool and keep things cool, so we did the 2 piece which allowed us to follow the contours of the valve cover.The rear brace works great! We have been testing similar braces on other torsion beam cars now for awhile and they are very effective. Yes it does require drilling 2 holes (took not even 5 minutes to do), but it is one of the best ways to stiffen up the torsion beam in the back and increase roll stiffness. I will post some pictures up of how we are doing it and the pieces that are involved to make sure it fits snuggly up in there, but it works very well. Also, this is a much less expensive way up beefing up the rear torsion beam, which means it will cost less to produce and we can sell it for less then doing a full sway bar with mounts, etc.
Lastly the bypass block off plate is something that the credit goes to Eric for. He is running an aftermarket blow off valve and needs something to block off where the stock bypass valve is located. We are going into production with these and it will be a great way to start having external blow off valves on the car, which will work better than even the forge setups.
I will get some more details up tomorrow when the pages go up.
Have a great night!
Dave
Dave@ddmworks
Supporting Vendor
Actually we will be making a section to cut into the charge tubing for an aftermarket blow off valve, can't let you have all of the fun