A tubular designed sub-frame connector is supposed to be torsionally stronger and a squared/rectangular designed connector should resist a bending force better right? If that's true, has anyone ever thought about a triangular connector? I'm sure it would be more difficult to attach to the car but I just can't see why it would be a bad design. If what I said was wrong then just ignore this post and let it sink away. Thanks.

 

The only material close to a triangle is an I-beam, which weighs a ton. Great for buildings and bridges, but not for a performance car chassis.

What you do is triangulate the tubular framing. Look at any tube frame chassis and you'll see a ton of triangles. That's how you get strength and rigidity without the addition of a major amount of weight.

Look at the installed pictures of our SFCs and you can see the triangulation that is incorporated.

Steve

 

oops, never mind


Clem

 

I've always wondered why triangular braces weren't used, lol. So you just use round tubes and triangulate the way it attaches, like attaching the sfc to the inner part of the subframe? I can see how that would make sense. Thanks for clearing that up Steve.

 

this was not a dumb question, you brung out a good question!