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Gernby, the advantage of the Chase hitch is that it is mounted to solid frame structure. The Da'Lan hitch mounts to thin sheetmetal in the trunk pan. Lots of history shows that those trunk pan hitches fail due to metal fatigue.
The Chase hitch is not only stronger, but it also has the advantage of being removeable.
i used to do that with my supercharged 2000 celica gts, mine however was a jet ski though. looked funny as hell smoking people off stoplights with a lowered celica with a thousand pound trailer (killed my power-weight ratio). the hitch had to come out and then up four inches 'cause of the height. the boat landings i went to were a lot steeper and i would't get my car wet at all though.
Originally Posted by mikegarrison,May 27 2009, 08:54 PM
Gernby, the advantage of the Chase hitch is that it is mounted to solid frame structure. The Da'Lan hitch mounts to thin sheetmetal in the trunk pan. Lots of history shows that those trunk pan hitches fail due to metal fatigue.
The Chase hitch is not only stronger, but it also has the advantage of being removeable.
I'll admit that I haven't seen the design of the Chase hitch (since I've been out of the S2000 world for 3+ years), but I believe the metal fatique issue with the trunk pan was due to people having too little tongue weight. If the tongue weight is too small, then the trailer winds up pulling UP on the hitch too much over bumps, which winds up pulling DOWN on the trunk pan. This was a particular problem for the 1st generation Da'Lan hitch that only had 2 bolts attaching the front part of the hitch to the trunk pan with small fender washers. When they went to 4 bolts with larger fender washers, I believe that problem went away completely. There were no signs of metal fatigue in my trunk pan when I sold it.
