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Originally Posted by Christ
NO! I can't advise against this enough... despite what many people do online, I just can't see a valid reason for making dents in the only structural part your car has.
Now, if you wanted to grind out a nice piece of the upper plate (it's a hollow 2-piece design) and weld in reinforcement and/or gussets, I could agree with that.
Have you tried re-clocking the engine slightly to see if you can get the clearance? Or maybe lifting/lowering it slightly.
The axles don't have to be perfect, but remember that if they're too far off, they'll fail prematurely, and cause torque steer issues and weird feelings under acceleration, as well as odd vibrations.
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Yeah, I wasn't planning on denting it actually, but (and I don't have a good picture of this) there is like a running 1-2cm pinch weld that joins the two halves that I was going to grind off and then weld back together. This isn't really structural, it was just making the design cheap, as I understand things. So, I'm going to do that for cat/o2 clearance and hopefully a bit of transmission clearance as well, but I don't think I'll pound in the xmember.
Also, you want a shot of the driver side (longer axle) from the rear of the car?