So I finnaly cut the holes under the hood for the upper balljoints to pass through, I was just tired of the banging, I am amazed at the difference... Drove about 80 miles yesterdayl and not one knock... Makes me wanna go lower now... I would recomend this mod to anyone that is slammed especially in ny with all the potholes... Thanks CL for the tip....

 

got any pictures?

 

Ill take a couple when I get out of work and post them up here...

 

i've been considering doing this. interested to see how it looks

 

What size holes did you cut ?

Got pics?

 

it has a thread on this somewhere, where a guy cut the holes and made a custom cover, not sure where though....and what part of ny u from

 

actually there are 2 threads.....and this one should have just been put into one of them

Glad you got your issue resolved though OP

 

Queens NY..... I saw the thread with the custom covers its def a good idea....

 

oh ok, went out in queens to drop my car and put the wheels on, im in bk though.....any pics??

 

I wonder how it affects your car structurally ...

 

Pics?........

 

wanna do this but am scared of this.

if i ever put the car back to stock to sell it, i dont want two holes in my frame!

 

It should not make a real difference structurally. You could even possibly hole saw it and then run a dimple die on the hole and it would actually make it stronger if you were really worried about rigidity..

That or you can only hole saw the first layer of metal, and that will get you about an extra 3/8ths of an inch of room for the ball joint to move, but not have any exposed hole in the engine bay.. thats what I did and I rarely hear my ball joints slap metal ( generally only on really **** roads and going fast )

 

When i did mine we really needed a 2" hole saw but had a 1 1/2" Hole Saw. So after getting through both layers, i went back and used a carbine bit and ate away at the bottom layer and very little to the top layer. Worked out perfect, the ball joint never really hits the top one as much as the first layer.

 

holes were cut with 2 1/4 inch hole saw.... and here are some pics....