Any thoughts on this strut brace?
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Any thoughts on this strut brace?
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The way its written it sounds as if this bolts to something else (but the visuals say otherwise...)
Looks OK - its probably heavier but stronger than stock.
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Looks OK - its probably heavier but stronger than stock.
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Stainless steel??? Holy cow, much does it weigh?
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The loads on the coil over shocks is basically up and down far, far different than say a 911 with Mc Phearson struts where cornering loads ARE transmitted to the top of the "shocks". Strut suspension is a cheap space saving COMPROMISE and not a very good design for handling sure they can be made to work OK but NEVER as well as double A -Arm suspension. Maybe why F-1 cars are double A-arm ? Camber change on the strut during compressing is what gets weird.
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Jim, that makes sense, but IMHO much of the force is applied to the bulkhead where the upper A-arm attaches. I would assume that the entire bulkhead flexes some under these forces, and tying things together at an additional point may alter the total amount of flex.
But, as you imply, the difference may be so small as to be very hard to measure(assuming you could come up with a good way to measure the flex) and even harder(maybe impossible) to quantify from behind the wheel.
This may be yet another of those technical solutions that has yet to find a real problem to solve, but it's interesting to speculate about.
But, as you imply, the difference may be so small as to be very hard to measure(assuming you could come up with a good way to measure the flex) and even harder(maybe impossible) to quantify from behind the wheel.
This may be yet another of those technical solutions that has yet to find a real problem to solve, but it's interesting to speculate about.
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Originally Posted by 928andRC51
That's a rhd car. Look at the location of the coolant reservoir. Bloody rhd fools...
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There is some flex and on a race car with sticky tires heavy springs it becomes a factor as the chassis acts like a spring but one without shock absorbers makes suspension tuning more difficult.