Originally Posted by
beam514
True, I could do that. But when you start messing with two different sides that are at an awkward angle (the bar isn't perfectly angled), then you have to start messing around a lot with verifying fitment.
Also, if you think about it as a triangle on two sides, we would be cutting the hypotenuse, then extending it backward. This wouldn't work unless we removed material from the back bar because the distance between the two hypotenuses will be smaller. The welds for the U should be pretty strong anyway