wich are the area with the more flex and torsion on our third gen J-bodies?
i wanna brace the car and make it the stiffest i can!
sunstealth wrote:wich are the area with the more flex and torsion on our third gen J-bodies?
i wanna brace the car and make it the stiffest i can!
go for a roll cage.
interior body doesnt torsional flex much at all as we dont have a driveshaft running to the rear wheels.
other than that most all the braces you can make or buy.
i cant go with a roll cage i am often carrying guitars and amp along with bikes and a couple other impractical things lol
theres some designs you might can do for a roll cage. i believe they have 4,6, and even 8 points if need be.
also something to think about are X braces... one can mount where the backseat is....
as well as one under the front dash....
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only seen a few unibodies with em, not really needed, but its another possibility, as well as a rear to front brace, somewhere high up on the rear deck, that goes down to the front foot area, normally where people mount kick panel speakers.
this may be overkill though for mosts needs. usually the more you remove for lightening a car, the more need for bracing once you get interior wise, but for some it can be helpful. any chassis that is raced weakens over time.
If you are talking about suspension ken2.2's subframe brace makes a noticeable difference I Love it and i dont like much
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a single bar subframe brace will not prevent chassis twist if there is much to begin with though.
our chassis is weak in strenght compared to a honda or something, i just want to have a stiff car (my girlfriend will hate me lol she just barely stand the drop)
theres a brace u can get that goes on the floor between the front seats and the back seats...
check Michael Ferrari...hes the only one i know of that had one..and he was selling it
sunstealth wrote:our chassis is weak in strenght compared to a honda or something, i just want to have a stiff car (my girlfriend will hate me lol she just barely stand the drop)
its not a weak chassis at all...
our suspension is simply prehistoric compared to most all other cars. part reason why theres always talk about people wanting to swap to an IRS grand am setup.
thats why it doesnt handle as great initially.
floor brace i dont personally feel does much.... unless you are getting blind sided, the outsides of the car isnt pushing in. think about a strut brace, keeps the towers from flexing inward right?
the roof has braces to keep the car from flexing inward towards center line. so what exactly is the floor brace supposedly bracing?
i hear that you can make an "X" frame connecting the unibody from the fron to the back and that should help out alot... from what i hear....
