Hans's Engine Cross Brace, love it!
04-28-2017, 11:14 AM
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Hans, can you please post a 26-page installation guide for this? :rooleyes:
Jeebus guys... most of you will never push your car hard enough for this to even be a point of consideration. In fact, most of you could drive without a cross brace installed and never notice the difference. It's a friggen cross brace! 4 bolts. Two adjusters. Done. Move on.
Jeebus guys... most of you will never push your car hard enough for this to even be a point of consideration. In fact, most of you could drive without a cross brace installed and never notice the difference. It's a friggen cross brace! 4 bolts. Two adjusters. Done. Move on.
Then go have a beer/wine.
04-28-2017, 01:13 PM
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Hans, that is another beautiful component you have come up with - - and I don't mean anything negative about it in my questioning.
But, it seems to me that neutral is neither snug inward or outward.
What puzzles me about this link is just what Constantine points out, that many of the original links are bent. I also notice that they are made out of very light aluminum tubing, so light that it suggests to me that they might have been intended only or primarily to resist pulling rather than pushing. I can't find myself giving the Porsche designers credit for making them so light duty just to save weight on the front of the car, and leaving them too light to perform as intended.
But, it seems to me that neutral is neither snug inward or outward.
What puzzles me about this link is just what Constantine points out, that many of the original links are bent. I also notice that they are made out of very light aluminum tubing, so light that it suggests to me that they might have been intended only or primarily to resist pulling rather than pushing. I can't find myself giving the Porsche designers credit for making them so light duty just to save weight on the front of the car, and leaving them too light to perform as intended.
But I think they were meant for being pushed...the car cant 'unfold' itself...
Why do they bend?
Because really, how they attach does not present them a flat straight load...they are mounted on TOP of the push points, and the tabs they connect to are hugely flexible still.
It's a compromise design flaw...theyre not perfect, they help some, but they need to be tied to the shock towers..but theyre too low, and the fenders are a good spot, but the bar doesnt attach across them but over them, and will bend upwards.
04-28-2017, 07:02 PM
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Through some weird cosmic alignment, I happen to have the cross brace from the Zombie in the trunk of the car today. FWIW, here's how Anderson tied it into the shock towers.
in situ:
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