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Old Oct 12, 2005 | 09:47 AM
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Best places to reinforce?

I'm about to get some SFCs but I was considering a decent sized roll bar and some front end reinforcement. The radiator support seems rather thin, would strengthening that stiffen up my car? Any other ideas of where I could stop flex?
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Old Oct 12, 2005 | 12:45 PM
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Subframe connectors are definetly a good choice, but before I spent the money, time/fabrication on a full roll cage I would consider either a Wonderbar from either Sphon or TDS, and a strut tower bar from the various companies that offer them.



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Old Oct 12, 2005 | 02:25 PM
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I have a wonderbar and I have a HSR, so no room for a STB.
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Old Oct 12, 2005 | 02:54 PM
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The front bumper beam adds a lot of torsional stiffness to the front end. If you removed it then I'd look at installing cross braces inplace of the standard radiator cross braces (black steel rods). Other than that, it's really a waste to be working on stiffening the front end infront of the suspension/steering mount points. The furter away you get the less effective it will be. Now if you can't fit a STB across you might look into boxing. Run bars from the strut mounts to the center of the firewall and center of the upper radiator crossmember. It won't be as effective as going straight across but it'll work better than nothing.
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Old Oct 12, 2005 | 04:31 PM
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I can actually fit a brace across the engine bay between the plenum and intake manifold... but some engine flex will probably break it. I'd love to see someone that knows what they're doing try it though.
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