Added a front Tow Hook

Very nice work Mike! Although it might look better in yellow, lol!
Alden

 

That's the solution the car should have come with from the factory. There's no way the underbody factory hook can be used without sacrificing the front valance. Nice welds!

 

Be careful if using that to actually pull a car. They are all mostly made by the same company and like to break at the shaft which also makes it a bit though to remove, if you have it in there tight enough. I've seen quite a few Perrin versions break and that is supposed to be a quality company.

 

Nice work indeed
I do have 2 commends for your considderation however

I would be a little skeptical on where you put the plate. This area is not realy built to take a strong pull to one side
Pulling straight will probabky be okey but any tow from a more pronouced angle, which may occure, could be scary.
Secondly the use of stainless for the bolt. Stainless is not that strong you know.

 

Cool job Mike!

I think my 308 has a factory hook underneath the front right side. However useless if you have the front spoiler installed

 

Here's the tow hook in 3/4 view.
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I dig it

 

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Understood. i was just sharing an honest concern. But it does look great indeed and deals with the low spoiler-oem tow hook flaw in the design

I connected the two brackets with an aditional structure to allow for a tow hook connection in the middle going through the spoiler

 

Nice job but to me an installed tow hook just looks to me like you are expecting to break down.
Not an attractive addition to any car.

 

None of the factory tow hooks are likely to take much of a pull at an angle without damage to the hook or the car. Many times both. It is not what they were intended for. His mount is considerably stronger than many of the factory mounts.
As for the 5/8 stainless hook itself, again considerably stronger than some of the factory provided hooks.

It is not a tow hook intended to drag a 6000 lb 4x4 out of a mud bog. It is intended to pull a small light car up the ramp of a flat bed tow truck.

 

Thanks,

My only concern was that if the hook is there, it might be used differently than intended which can cause serios issues. Comming from a more track orientated background, a towhook will be used from every different angle that allows an official to get a car out of the gravel. On normal roads, I'm pretty sure that in case of an accident where the driver is taken away, a towing company employee will not take much consideration that the hook is only intended to pull the car without an angle. He will probably just hook it on and start pulling.

 

Ferraris have come with factory installed tow hooks for nearly 50 years. Odd as it may seem many are driven regularly on the track and in that near 50 years it has not been an issue.

 

Looking at the design of his hook. You can unscrew it and screw it in anytime he wants. So it doesn’t show all the time…. I like that idea….