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Author Side effects of stiffening cars with strut braces/thicker roll bars etc.
mwg
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26th Apr 06 at 09:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
If a car was fitted with front and rear strut braces, thicker anti roll bars and roll cage...

would it put certain parts of the car under stress that were not subject to those levels of stress beforehand and not designed to take that force and therefore crack/twist things?
Have heard of older cars that have fitted those sort of mods and because its made them that stiff its twisted things like the sunroof so they leak when it rains

Or is not really a problem?
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you fit braces to eliminate twist... its no problem really
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But does it not put other parts of the car under stress that would previously not have been?
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Not really... it just "shares the love" betwwen the bits that are stressed anyway
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shares the love
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What if the car was lowered 60mm would fitting a front strut brace affect anything?
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i got 3 braces (upper and lower front, upper rear) and eibach arb fitted. yes, it did affect the handling but you can't say it makes the body stiff... proper rollcage would

 
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