I noticed these before I bought the car but think much into it. Now I am selling it and the last person who checked it out was wondering what they were so it got me wondering. Car is a 2001 Cobra coupe with factory IRS. Your thoughts?
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Any idea what these are? Plates welded in trunk
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Reinforcement for a cage?
Is that where the rear mounting points are for the IRS?
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I haven't seen anything else that makes me think a cage was installed at any point but could be.
Thats what I was thinking but it is kind of hard to tell.
I think those plates are too far back for the IRS mounting points. The reinforcement brackets are around the wheel-well, aft of the shock towers.
One of the welds is ~ where a battery relocation would go.
One of the welds is ~ where a battery relocation would go.
Maybe those plates are just simply for weight in the rear. I'm probably shooting in the dark, but never know. Maybe even to help get traction in inclamite weather conditions.
one for battery mounting and the other for n2o maybe? i don't think it has anything to do with the IRS.
Remove the rest of the interior so we can see where the panels go.
There isn't much you can't see in those pictures, the interior pieces still there maybe cover around an additional 1/4 inch at most.
Strange, I wonder what purpose they served.
Paint is pretty scratched up in front of them too...
Paint is pretty scratched up in front of them too...
Id clean it up regardless and spray over it.
Looks like someone followed the 4th gen f body trick to cut a hole for fuel pump access. They cut the wrong side and went to the other one.
That was my first thought. Maybe for a cage that never went in.
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You silly New Edge Cobra guys with your factory OE IRS install. Both those plates are directly above the frame rail where the rear IRS brackets mount. I just double checked my 97's trunk floor where I cut with a hole saw so I could install washers and nuts on the bracket bolts.
Why yours look like somebody capped them later? Dunno. :shrug:
Why yours look like somebody capped them later? Dunno. :shrug:
The fuel pump is in the center of the tank under the spare tire.
Maybe that's it but I'd think they could've used thinner gauge steel plate.
I have the Mathis brackets on my race car and they are a solid mounting point for the IRS brackets to the frame rails. Those plates don't anchor anything to the interior sheet metal.
What about underneath the plates up under the car? Anything out of the ordinary?
Without raising up the car, I can't see them.
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